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Welcome to the Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center News Page!
Our children in the news...
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The Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center has
some very exciting events unfolding. First, our Schools Attuned
training courses for teachers July 17-21 in
Hickory was well attended.
Images from the
course -Click here
This is the fourth year we have provided the Generalist course for
Elementary teachers and administrators. We are proud to offer for
the first time this year, a new course for middle and high schools
teachers, the Subject Specialist course. This course focuses on the
teacher who may teach large numbers of students one or two subjects
in a day.
Both courses are based on the research of Dr.
Mel Levine. His All Kinds of Minds Institute in Chapel Hill is the
umbrella agency for the Student Success Center and the Schools
Attuned programs as well as the research arm.
For more information about Schools Attuned programming in Hickory
sponsored by the PBLRC, please call 261-9930. For information about
All Kinds of Minds, please visit the link
www.allkindofminds.org.
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The
All Kinds of Minds organization has its April 2006
Newsletter available- Check it out at
www.allkindsofminds.org/newsletter/april2006
  
The 'Bad' Success Of Daniel Powter
Aug. 9, 2006
(CBS) "Bad
Day" is an ironic title for a song that has brought a lot of good
days to singer-songwriter Daniel Powter. It's an instant pop classic
that spent five weeks at the top of the charts and was the most-played
song in Europe last year.
Not only that, but Powter's self-titled album already has sold more than
2 million copies and the numbers just keep growing. He's in the midst of
his first-ever U.S. tour but he stopped by The Early Show
to perform "Bad Day," of course, and also his new single, "Free Loop,"
as well as "Song 6" and "Jimmy Gets High."
Powter says "Bad Day" was the last song he wrote for the album, and he
says it's the aggressive music, especially the drums, that sets it apart
from the pack. He adds, "Really, anyone could have written this song.
But I'm glad I did."
Powter, who hails from Canada, recorded the album in his apartment.
He started on his path by taking years of violin lessons, with his
mother often accompanying him on piano, an instrument that he took up
when he was a teenager. He went on to sing with his high school bands
and, by the second show, he knew he had found his future.
The Early Show co-anchor Rene Syler told him she had heard
that "Bad Day" was the most downloaded song on the Internet.
"Somebody told me something like that." Powter replied. "That's very
cool. Very humbling and extremely special for me. I wrote the song and
made the song for my friends, and now I feel like I've got millions of
friends. It feels great."
Powter came to his own sound partly because he was dyslexic.
"I used to have to record (music) in order to participate because I
couldn't read it," Powter told Syler. "I actually didn't know whether I
wanted to do this, because I've wanted to primarily be a songwriter. I
didn't know necessarily whether I wanted to perform. Then I get here (to
The Early Show plaza) to get to see the whites of people's eyes
and I know now that's what I want to do."
For more about Powter, go to his
Web site.
©MMVI, CBS Broadcasting
Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Autistic Teen's Hoop Dreams Come True
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb.
23, 2006
(CBS) It
was the stuff of Hollywood, but it was real.
Senior Jason McElwain had been the manager of the varsity basketball
team of Greece Athena High School in Rochester, N.Y.
McElwain, who's autistic, was added to the roster by coach Jim Johnson
so he could be given a jersey and get to sit on the bench in the team's
last game of the year.
Johnson hoped the situation would even enable him to get McElwain onto
the floor a little playing time.
He got the chance, with Greece Athena up by double-digits with four
minutes go to.
And, in his first action of the year, McElwain missed his first two
shots, but then sank six three-pointers and another shot, for a
total of 20 points in three minutes.
"My first shot was an air ball (missing the hoop), by a lot, then I
missed a lay-up," McElwain recalls. "As the first shot went in, and then
the second shot, as soon as that went in, I just started to catch fire."
"I've had a lot of thrills in coaching," Johnson says. "I've coached a
lot of wonderful kids. But I've never experienced such a thrill."
The crowd went wild, and his teammates carried the excited McElwain off
the court.
"I felt like a celebrity!" he beamed.
McElwain's mother sees it as a milestone for her son.
"This is the first moment Jason has ever succeeded (and could be) proud
of himself," reflects Debbie McElwain. "I look at autism as the Berlin
Wall, and he cracked it."
His teammates couldn't be happier.
"He's a cool kid," says guard Levar Goff. "You just get to know him, get
used to being around him. A couple of weeks ago, he missed practice
because he was sick. You feel different when he's not around. He brings
humor and life to the team."
Jason's next goal: to graduate.
©MMVI, CBS Broadcasting
Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Follow these links to additional recent news
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(CBS) The Early Show series "My New Life"
profiles people who have been through profound life changes.
Dave Price follows the path of a rock star who has left the
spotlight far behind.
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... He admits that he "did
terribly in school, hated it, hated it. Every time I took a test
I failed it. Every time a teacher talked I could never grasp
what they were saying. I always felt like I was in a wind tunnel
trying to read a newspaper and everything was just rushing by."
Harris was bright, but for reasons he couldn't understand, he
never seemed to be able learn — so at 16, he flunked out of
school. "I did avoid anything that involved reading or writing.
I never learned to read music. I learn everything by ear," he
said. "There wasn't a problem as far as I was concerned." ...
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For the full CBS News article use the following link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/28/earlyshow/mynewlife/main1444634.shtml |
Selective Mutism:
When Your Child Can't Speak |
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March 27, 2006 — Imagine
a world where anyone and anyplace outside the comforts
of home elicit fear and anxiety so paralyzing that you
shut down and cannot speak.
That's the reality for 7-year-old
Morgan Galie, who suffers from a childhood anxiety
disorder called selective mutism. ...
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For the full ABC News article use the following link:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmericanFamily/story?id=1770308&page=1 |
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