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		<title>Employment Opportunities Grow Slowly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over in another blog,  Lavanya posted a comment that was off-topic there but definitely on-topic here, so I&#8217;ve &#8216;ported it over. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. lavanya.v.raghavan@gmail.com 2012/03/29 at 8:40 am dear ms. moon, i came across this article – “Outsourcing to the Autistic Rather Than to India” an thought of ‘speed of dark’ at once. I wonder if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Thoughts from FYE Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was great to meet people who are now heading, or working in, college programs in support of students with autism spectrum conditions.   Also students now moving toward certification as speech &#38; language pathologists, or who want to work with special-education departments.  And&#8211;always&#8211;those who have a family member or friend (or friend with a child) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FYE Conference in San Antonio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from the First Year Experience conference in San Antonio, where I got to meet manymanymany  faculty and staff from universities around the country&#8211;what a great conference!    Random House brought five writers there to talk about the books we have that are suitable for an FYE or Common Reads program.   The Speed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=161</link>
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		<title>Forcing Affection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s  a great article on kids, relatives, and holidays, focussing on the issue of forcing &#8220;respect&#8221; and &#8220;affection.&#8221;    Although I think teaching kids about boundaries and their right to say &#8220;No&#8221; to unwanted touch is important for all, it&#8217;s particularly important&#8211;and difficult&#8211;to think carefully and clearly about these issues with kids who have developmental differences. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Words: What Not to Say to Parents of Disabled Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 5  (today as I write this; I may not finish it by midnight) is the 21st anniversary of my mother&#8217;s death, so naturally I&#8217;m remembering details of that day. One of the memories is of someone who arrived about half an hour after she died&#8211;unaware of that fact&#8211;to visit her.  When I told this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=154</link>
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		<title>Sigh&#8230;mea culpa time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;apologies first, excuses next.   I have shamefully neglected this blog for far too long.   The excuses include having a publishing schedule for fiction that meant writing books half-again longer in the same period of time, the need to keep up the blog for those books and increase the posts to it with the publishing schedule, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=151</link>
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		<title>Fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parental fear, that is.   All parents worry about their children&#8211;how they&#8217;ll get along in the world, how they&#8217;ll be treated&#8211;but parents of kids with disabilities worry even more.    Many of us experienced bullying, physical or verbal, and we don&#8217;t want that to happen to our kids. Fear of the child being rejected&#8211;or the parent being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Darcy Kramer on Transitioning to College</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Guest Blogger Darcy Javanne Kramer! &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- First, a quick introduction:  I am a counselor at the Disability Resource Center at Portland State University, the largest four-year public college in the state of Oregon.  Elizabeth asked me to guest blog about transition from high school to college for students on the spectrum, which I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=146</link>
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		<title>Ups and Downs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of us are old enough to remember the Pogo cartoon in which a character announced that he didn&#8217;t want &#8220;ups and downs&#8221;&#8211;he wanted &#8220;ups and upper ups.&#8221;  That&#8217;s certainly what parents want&#8230;kids who keep growing and developing.   When the general trend is upward, and about the typical speed of progression, the &#8220;downs&#8221; don&#8217;t bother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=144</link>
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		<title>Error!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend from the area emailed me today to tell me that I had wrongly reported the details about the woman in Irving who killed her two young autistic children.  Her husband is alive; she is not a widow. I didn&#8217;t bookmark the other sources of information I&#8217;d found, so now (of course) I can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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