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"Over and over again, I was misdiagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, and was always sent home with an action plan which gave me some relief until, due ...to my chronic ruminating and looking for absolute certainty in all parts of my life, I’d once again awake to the revving of the motor within. The anxiety would vroom, vroom, vroom itself into panic attacks that led to the scariest thoughts I’d ever had in my life. And the thoughts would send more and more waves of panic. I once believed such thoughts defined who I was as a person bad, broken, and unfixable. I tried hard to push these violent and scrupulous thoughts away, and because of it, they got even worse." EXCERPT TAKEN FROM MY LATEST THE TEMPER ARTICLE [LINK IN BIO] ALSO [LINK IN BIO] FOR THE STUDY FROM WHICH THIS STATISTIC WAS TAKEN. #ocdawareness #ocdrecovery #intrusivethoughts #mentalhealth #scarythoughts #harmocd #scrupulosityocd #pureo #ocd #realocd #adhd #bpd #schizophrenia #anxiety #generalizedanxietydisorder #panicattacks #anxietysupport #mentalhealthmatters #eatingdisoder #eatingdisoderrecovery #askforhelp #endstigma

Miss Gordon’s poise and powerful words moved a nation in need today. What an inspiring testimony to the effectiveness early intervention and appropriate accommodations. I am in absolute awe of her. https://www.understood.org//amanda-gorman-youth-poet-laure

Biden's team is moving fast - please help get the word out!! Anyone with insight as to an individual who would make a strong asset to the administration in education, please message me. COPAA and CAPCA are both working on this endeavor. Thank you!!

Wishing all of my clients and all of the families good luck for the start of a new year!! Check out the apps below depending on your child’s unique learning needs.

Please sign for a veto of AB 614. https://mailchi.mp//kids-matter-reading-is-a-civil-right-v

Parents, Advocates, Attorneys, Providers, and Field Professionals: Please distribute as widely as possible. The Assembly Education Committee is holding a hearing Monday, August 3, on SB 614, a very bad bill. It passed the Senate with a different subject last spring and was then gut-amended to remove California requirements for research-based reading instruction and eliminate the test that teachers must pass in reading instruction. This would remove the leverage that we cur...rently have, such as it is, to demand comprehensive, research-based reading instruction for students with disabilities. It would create more instructional casualtiesstudents who are deemed learning disabled, or even intellectually disabled, because they do not intuitively pick up reading with whole language instruction, and need systematic, phonics-based instruction instead. After much opposition, this bill was dropped last summer but is being revived in the strange session that is occurring this summer. It is very important that as many people as possible watch the hearing, and request to speak in opposition to the bill. The legislature needs to know that people are watching this. The hearing is Monday, August 3, at 1 p.m. PST. Here is a link to see, or get to the link to see, the Education Committee. https://www.assembly.ca.gov/todaysevents I think that a few people will be able to speak substantively and others will be able to say their name and roles/positions, and say that they oppose SB 614. Also, please contact members of the Education Committee Monday morning and let them know that SB 614 would seriously weaken California reading instruction. The problem with research-based instruction is not that it doesn’t work; it’s that too often it does not occur. We need to strengthen access to research-based instruction, not give in to its opponents, who are taking advantage of this moment to weaken public school reading instruction. That would encourage parents to leave the public school system, reduce support for public education, and hurt all students, particularly students with disabilities and students whose families cannot supplement whatever reading instruction they receive in school with on-line programs and private tutoring. Here is a link to the bill and related information: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac/billNavClient.xhtml

Scientific data has long proven the efficacy of Positive Behavior Support or Positive Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPS) in working with children struggling with maladaptive behavior as opposed to the dangerous and damaging practice of Restraint & Seclusion. California currently has broadly banned the use of restraint and seclusion in instances of coercion, discipline or behavior controls with the exception of when an individual poses threat of harm to self or others. Sadly, the reality is that many schools employ the use of restraint and seclusion far too liberally. Here is a wonderful example of a school that chose BIP approach and essentially eradicated the use of restraint and seclusion. https://www.msn.com//how-the-most-violent-spe/ar-BB17cmBa