Special Education in Five Minutes
If you are a parent, general educator, or special educator wanting to stay up to date with your knowledge of special education, this program will provide you with expert knowledge in concise (+/-) five minute episodes.
David Poeschl is your host. He is a retired school district special education director and Cal-State University lecturer. He currently works as a no-fee advisor to parents of children with disabilities in Northern California.
The content of the podcasts comes from his extensive experience as an educator and the most asked questions parents bring to him in his practice.
The purpose of the program is to share information about those questions and more so parents can be on equal footing with school staff they are working with. In addition, many general education teachers need and want additonal ways of helping kids with disabilities, as well as ways to improve their instructional practices.
Special Education in Five Minutes
Latest Episodes
Social Stories: A Powerful Tool for Social Growth in Children with Autism
In this episode we’ll discuss Social Stories, created by special educator Carol Gray. Social Stories use real situations that kids with autism face and puts those situations into story form. The stories include ways for the child to view ...
Back to School and Neurodivergence: the Need for Additional Supports
While back to school time is exciting and fun for some students, neurodivergent kids often suffer severe anxiety that sometimes leads to school refusal.What can the parents of neurodivergent students do to help the situation...
Behavior Series #6: Why is This Behavior Happening? Functions of Behaviors
Why a problem behavior occurs is the basic question that Positive Behavior Support (PBS) and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) needs to be answered for the process to work. This is because almost every behavior is due to an underlying legit...