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Portland State is offering courses this summer that aim to educate children with autism and educate special education teachers and members of the community who work with children who have autism.

The classes can be taken by students working toward a certificate in autism training at PSU. Two different classes will be offered during summer term: the first about educating children with autism and the second on the PSU-developed Strategies for Teaching Based on Autism Research (STAR) program.

The Autism Spectrum Disorder Statewide Library in Salem includes books, audiotapes, videotapes, a variety of articles, and sample curriculum materials regarding a wide variety of educational strategies for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The resources are available to checkout to Oregon residents. Click
here for a list of library resources you can check out (http://www.willamesd.k12.or.us/specprogs/forms/State%20Library%20Inventory%20List%20(for%20web).pdf).

A new policy was just added April 4th to allow school districts to give alternative testing to an additional 2% of the student population. The change could affect up to 30% of students on IEPs.

According to TCTA website:

Another story in the Mail Tribune on autism special education programs in the Mail Tribune. Here, the parents want to centralize elementary autism programs to one school:

To give special education students more stability, Dillard and four other parents recently teamed up to propose to the Southern Oregon Education Service District and Medford School District to keep kindergarten through sixth grade at the same school.

It seems our favorite autism people are in the news: Kelli Schlapfer and Jennifer McBride. The story, titled Autism and the Schools: Teaching even the basics can be challenging, is available online through the Mail Tribune. It well worth the read.

Throughout the article, we see that Medford has several programs available to children with autism: