discussion boards 5

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This week assignment is research and evaluate resources in your community for parents and service providers of students with ASD, specifically in regard to communication.

Please respond to students discussion board:

1.(SHY) SPECTRA Center in Colorado is a center that is specifically for people who have ASD. SPECTRA works with all ages of people and had a wide range of services. I chose SPECTRA because they have a program that is strictly for best-practice strategies that have been proven to work for people with ASD. Therefore, in the area of communication, the people working there are expert on the devices and have a system for tracking data to quickly find the best device for that individual. Additionally, SPECTRA has a school so, if a student requires a specialized program, they can attend the school that is fit to their needs.

When sharing this information, I often bring it up at IEP meetings. A part of the transition IEP talks about community programs that the student is involved with. I am going to add SPECTRA to my list of community programs that assist students with all types of disabilities. In the public school setting, we do have to be careful to not recommend a particular service or one particular agency so, just in case things do not workout, we are not to blame. It’s tricky to navigate, which is why I have a list of options then the parent can choose.

2.(LL) In Pennsylvania there are many resources for families, related service providers, and teachers on children with ASD. Some include PA autism and Autism York. Autism York is a resource for parents and families in the county in which I live. This website provides multiple resources in which parents can use to look into AAC, talk to other families that have children that use AAC. They also provide additional websites to look into that explain AAC. Another great resource is PAttan which is Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network. This explains how AAC works for communicating, reading, writing as well as how to go about to receive AAC and the funding. This is a great resource for parents and teachers.

A local university, Penn State, also offers a national AAC conference as well as an autism conference every year. These conferences provide strategies, implication for practice, and directions for future research and development.

These resources are great as we often use PAttan in our school districts for trainings. PAttan will also provide parent trainings if our school district requests it and if we have enough parent interest. I have had parents interested in devices but have no idea how to go about to get them or use them. I have mentioned using a few of these resources to them already. Autism York is great because it is local and provides a great support system for families as it allows families across the county that also have a family member that has ASD.

https://www.autismyork.com/

https://www.pattan.net/Assistive-Technology/AT-for-Communication/Augmentative-Alternative-Communication-(AAC)

https://news.psu.edu/story/527553/2018/07/06/impact/penn-state-center-hosting-national-aac-conference

3. (Ania) There are many valuable resources that help parents and service provider to be current with news and strategies used to assist students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Some of my favorite sources involve Autism Speak, Parent to Parent of Miami, and the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Last month, Autism speak sponsored a walk at Doral City where different services providers were sharing knowledge and assisted the child by donating money to help these kids develop appropriate communication and social interaction . Parents to parents is another resource that assists parents to understand their rights and responsibilities. This great source shows parents different ways to advocate for their child. Miami-Dade is a county that is very involved with everything related with ASD. When it comes to communication, the best source for intervention is Dade County Public Schools.

Dade County Public School supports a wide variety of services such as Occupational therapies, Physical therapies, and Speech therapies. All these interventions involve communication supports and academic supports as well. Dade County Public provides services at school or at home (homebound services). These services support students learning and provide a lot of information that relate ASD. It even comprises a section on Augmentative Alternative Communication that shows how to use AAC devices to assist students with communication needs. Dade County also has pages that connect links to websites that are helpful for parents and service providers.

Dade schools: http://www.dadeschools.net

Tuesday’s Verse

How does this verse relate to the topic of teaching students with special needs?

Mark 6:34 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

Thursday Bible Verse: How does this verse provide peace to those who educate or provide services for students with special needs?

Psalm 31:24

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.

Friday Bible Verse:

How might this verse prove that teachers can indeed make a difference for those who have special needs? Explain.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

managing online crises read directions carefully 1

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Find an example of an organizational crisis that has played out across social media (this can be from government, education, nonprofits, or corporations – just not individuals). Choose a case found in one of the articles listed below:

6 examples of social media crises: What can we learn? (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

What can we learn from the biggest social media management nightmares of 2017 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

How big brands coped with social media crises (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

10 Social Media Crises: The good, bad & ugly (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

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Learn as much as you can about the case using at least 3 sources (different articles, the company’s own website, etc.) You want to compare what different people have said about the case.

Write a 2 to 3 1/2-page paper as noted below. The paper should be 12-point type, single-spaced, 1-inch margins. Follow the rubric when writing your paper

RUBRIC

  • (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.In your own words, summarize the case study. Be sure to include the reason for the crisis, who was affected by the crisis (customers, shareholders, community), how the company responded to the crisis, and the outcome of the crisis (35 points)
  • Relate the case to “Five Stages of Crisis Management in the Digital Age” found on down below the rubric. Do you see any evidence that the company effectively met any of these stages? If so, how? Where was the company lacking? (25 points)
  • Provide your reaction to the crisis. What could the organization have done better? What would you recommend to the company in the future based upon lessons learned? (25 points)
  • In your discussion, cite 3 sources that you used to learn about the case (you can use hyperlinks or a bibliography). (15 points)

Five Stages of Crisis Management in the Digital Age

  • Prepare in advance.Crises can happen to any company. Create a crisis communication plan that can be used as s roadmap if the worst happens. This means creating a ‘crisis communication plan’ that includes organizing a crisis team as well as coming up with key messages and objectives that need to be met. Companies should also prepare prewritten materials that they are able to release at short notice. Companies should also be proactive in monitoring social media channels for possible developing crises. Monitoring software such as Meltwater Buzz and Crimson Hexagon helps companies to get a better view of what individuals are saying about their brand.
  • Isolate the Origin.Being able to identify the origin of the crisis is paramount in controlling the crisis. It is key for the company to find out where the problem has come for and what social media channels are being affected. This makes it easier to formulate an action plan to counter any negative chatter.
  • Evaluate the Impact.Take inventory of the situation and determine which publics need attention first and fast. Create a log to see what the issue is and who it affecting most. The two primary audiences during a crisis are those directly affected and those whose attitudes of the company could be affected. The response should be aimed at targeting the group most strongly affected. Timing is key. A company needs to make sure they acknowledge the crisis or they risk ruining their credibility, however if rushed, a response could just exasperate the problem further so time must be spent working out the correct way to answer any allegations.
  • Mitigate the Crisis.Try to limit the crisis – this means fast action.Prepare a response and ongoing updates. The first thing to do in crisis management is to ‘stop the bleeding’, that’s why it’s important to be prepared for whatever happens and to respond quickly. Some companies prepare a ‘dark’ website that they can put online if a severe crisis requires it. Then mobilize the preplanned crisis management team and direct traffic on the social media sites towards the predesigned crisis website which will be controlled only by you and should contain the latest updates and information on the crisis.
  • Learn from the Crisis.Once it is over, what did the company learn from the crisis and how might those lessons be incorporated into future crisis plans. Like life, companies need to learn from their mistakes and work out how to stop them happening again in the future. The crisis management team should have a post crisis debrief to evaluate what they did well and what they could have done better. If done properly it should help for the planning and execution of future crisis communications.Follow these five steps when your client encounters a crisis and the brand will not suffer as much. Of course, it is always important to remember that everything should be done to avoid these problems in the first place but sometimes they are unavoidable. With planning, preparation and timely execution, crises can be dealt with and turned into a positive.

hi i need someone to do my topic its 4 dissicution and each one is different than the other

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First Topic:

Drive: Topic 1

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Think about your current role in school and work. Which do you utilize more: Left Brain or Right Brain capacities? Do you agree or disagree with Dan Pink’s assertion that Left Brain capacities are being de-emphasized and Right Brain capacities are becoming predominant?

Directions: Do some outside research on this topic. Find a credible link and include it in your response. I’d like you to try to explain what you’ve discovered from the source before you answer the questions above. Or, you can include this outside information in your answer altogether. I’m basically looking to see which students in class still rely on Wikipedia to get their information, and which students spend hours fact-checking their info. before making an ideological commitment.

Things to consider: Where did your info. come from? Who or what entity published it? Who wrote it? Did you cross reference it? How do you know the information you’re looking at is reliable and true?

Second Topic

Drive: Topic 2

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What motivates you to do your best work? In what situations does the “carrot/stick” approach work for you? When does it not work?

Directions: Before answering the questions above, I’d like you to read the original study by Deci and Ryan (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.705.7118&rep=rep1&type=pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.). I’m not expecting you to be an expert reader of scholarship, but I do expect you to pull important (perhaps conclusive) information from the study. Imagine you were summarizing the study for a good friend or for another professor. Perhaps your auntie asks you at dinner this Sunday, “What are you reading in school?” So before you answer the questions above, tell us a little bit about the study. I would argue 500 words or less is adequate for this Discussion Board post.

topic 3

Drive: Topic 3

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Does Pink underplay the importance of *earning a living? Is his view of Motivation 3.0 a bit too utopian–that is, is Pink, if you’ll pardon the pun, too rosy?

*be sure to pay attention to his argument regarding “baseline pay.”

Topic 4

Drive: Topic 4

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What are the things that truly motivate you? Now think about the last week. How many of those 168 hours were devoted to these things? Can you do better?

And all it should be about 500 words or more

10 multiple choice calculus

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1.

The graph of f ‘(x) is continuous, positive, and has a relative maximum at x = 0. Which of the following statements must be true? (5 points)


2.

Below is the graph of f ‘(x), the derivative of f(x), and has x-intercepts at x = -3, x = 1, and x = 2 and a relative maximum at x = -1.5 and a relative minimum at x = 1.5. Which of the following statement is false?

Graph of a function that increases from negative infinity to x equals negative 1.5, decreases from x equals negative 1.5 to x equals 1.5, crossing the y axis at y equals 6, and increases from x equals 1.5 to positive infinity with x intercepts at x equals negative 3, 1 and 2. (5 points)



3.

The graph of y = f ‘(x), the derivative of f(x), is shown below. List the intervals where the graph of f is concave down.

Graph consists of 3 line segments from x equals negative 4 to x equals 4. Graph is decreasing from x equals negative 4 to x equals negative 2, increases from x equals negative 2 to x equals 2 and decreases from x equals 2 to x equals 4. There are x intercepts at x equals negative 4, 0 and 4. (5 points)



4.

Which of the following functions grows the fastest as x grows without bound? (5 points)



5.

Compare the growth rate of the functions f(x) = x3 + 1 and g(x) = x2 . (5 points)



6.

f is a function that is differentiable for all reals. The value of f ‘(x) is given for several values of x in the table below.

x -8 -3 0 3 8
f ‘(x) -4 -2 0 4 5

If f ‘(x) is always increasing, which statement about f(x) must be true? (5 points)



7.

f is a differentiable function on the interval [0, 1] and g(x) = f(2x). The table below gives values of f ‘(x). What is the value of g ‘(0.1)? (5 points)

x 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
f ‘(x) 1 2 3 -4 5


8.

Use the graph of f(t) = 2t + 2 on the interval [-1, 4] to write the function F(x), where f of x equals the integral from 1 to x of f of t dt . (5 points)



9.

The velocity of a particle moving along the x-axis is v(t) = t2 + 2t + 1, with t measured in minutes and v(t) measured in feet per minute. To the nearest foot find the total distance travelled by the particle from t = 0 to t = 2 minutes. (5 points)




10.

Find the range of the function f of x equals the integral from 0 to x of the square root of the quantity 36 minus t squared dt . (5 points)


reading and writing 27

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This week during lecture we began looking at two related issue: Mass Incarceration and Employment Discrimination. We watched a short documentary produced by Al Jazeera, “Anatomy of An American City.” We also reviewed the Goffman reading “On the Run” and Pager reading “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” Based on the ideas presented during lecture this past week, here are three questions for you to write about:

1. How does Goffman’s “On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto?” portray the effects of mass incarceration on the lived realities and experiences of predominately young men of color? How does the structural threat of mass incarceration shape the daily life of these individuals?

2. What are the barriers that ex-convicts and felons face when trying to improve their lives? How does “The Mark of a Criminal Record” address these issues? How are individuals “branded” by the mark of a criminal record, and what are the long-term effects of being branded with such a negative credential?

3. What do you think of the argument (advanced by Goffman, Alexander, etc) that mass incarceration is the modern-day system of social control that is intended to enslave black people in America? Do you buy that argument? Why or why not?

Please draft a written response to either #1, #2, or #3. Your choice. Your written responses must be between 500-600 words. Submit finished responses to our Canvas site before 5pm, Wednesday, May 29th.

***In each of these essays, we would like to see you integrate evidence from the Al Jazeera documentary, “Baltimore: Anatomy of an American City” (🇺🇸 Baltimore: Anatomy of an American City | Fault Lines (Links to an external site.)

about cancer 1

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About the following Cancers: Breast, Prostate, Cervical, Lung and Colon.

Topics: Introduction

Statistics

Screaning tests

Diagnostic Tests

Guidelines

Recommendations

References within 5 years (8)

RUBRIC

APA Format

8 to 10 References within 5 years

15-Pages minimum

Turnitin less than 20%

exercise therapy 4

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Describe the differences between the traditional model of medicine and a more contemporary model of medicine.Which model is more conducive to the fitness therapy approach and why?

short stats quiz on t tests and intervals 1

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Complete 8 questions quiz on t tests and t intervals using my Canvas login (which i will provide)

brief excel homework

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Your company manufactures plastic wrap for food storage. The tear resistance of the wrap, denoted by X, must be controlled so that the wrap can be torn off the roll without too much effort but it does not tear too easily when in use. In a series oftest runs, 15 rolls ofwrap are made under carefully controlled conditions and the tear

resistance of each roll is measured. The results are used as the basis of a quality assurance specification (see Problem 2.23). If X for a subsequently produced roll falls more than two standard deviations away from the test period average, the process is declared out of specification and production is suspended for routine maintenance. The test series data are as follows:

Roll 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 X

134 131 129 133 135 131 134 130 131 136 129 130 133 130 133

(a) Write a spreadsheet to take as input the test series data and calculate the sample mean (X) and sample standard deviation (sX), preferably using built-in functions for the calculations.

(b) The following tear resistance values are obtained for rolls produced in 14 consecutive production runs subsequent to the test series: 128, 131, 133, 130, 133, 129, 133, 135, 137, 133, 137, 136, 137, 139. On the spreadsheet (preferably using the spreadsheet plotting capability), plot a control chart of X versus run number, showing horizontal lines for the values corresponding to X, X 2sX, and X ‡ 2sX from the test period, and show the points corresponding to the 14 production runs. (See Figure 2.5-2.) Which measurements led to suspension of production?

(c) Following the last of the production runs, the chief plant engineer returns from vacation, examines the plant logs, and says that routine maintenance was clearly not sufficient and a process shutdown and full system overhaul should have been ordered at one point during the two weeks he was away. When would it have been reasonable to take this step, and why?

amelia wage slavery and frederick douglass

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Amelia, a worker in mid 19th century Lowell, Massachusetts, claimed that factory workers were caught in a system of “wage slavery.” How did she justify this claim?

Using what you know of factory work in mid 19th century, explain how such paid work might compare to slavery as described by Frederick Douglass in his Narrative. (Remember to frame this discussion in the changing context/s of the time period.)