Saturday, Jul 26, 2008

SPP 027: Psychiatry Denial, Autism Bashing, Misinformed Radio Show Jocks and Other Pet Peeves

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In this episode, psychiatry denial is explored with a discussion of Michael Savage's comments about autistic children and Dr. Thomas Szasz's criticisms of psychiatry. Dr. Weisz points out the fallacies in these criticisms of psychiatric diagnoses.

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Saturday, Jul 19, 2008

SPP 026: Preventing Teacher Burn-Out

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What is teacher burn-out? How can we recognize it? How can we prevent it? This episode focuses on helping teachers to maintain the balance between being challenged and being burned out.

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Saturday, Jul 12, 2008

SPP 025: Discovering the Autism Genes

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New research about the role of specific genes in autism spectrum disorders is reviewed. This line of research is promising in understanding and intervening with this devestating disorder. Other features include the quote of the week, listener feedback and a public service announcement to prevent health problems that strike people who sit for long periods of time, such as might be the case with listeners of podcasts and users of computers.

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Sunday, Jul 06, 2008

SPP 024: Classroom Management Approaches that Work

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Citing research about classroom management approaches that work from Robert J. Marzano's book, Classroom management that works: research based strategies for every teacher, this podcast episode focuses on practical information that has been empirically found to work in effective classroom management.

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