The article below reinforces your ideas
about how it was growing up having been premature. Earlier iUniverse wrote and
said they did not allow ebooks to be distributed free. Thus you are taking them
off your list. You sent a polite reply however. - Amorella
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SCOTLAND
5 March 2014
Last updated at 19:23 ET
Premature babies may be disadvantaged later in life
By Eleanor
Bradford
BBC
Scotland Health Correspondent
Children
born prematurely may be disadvantaged for the rest of their lives by poor
understanding of their needs, according to experts.
Paediatricians'
research has shown premature babies are more likely to have difficulties at
school but few teachers are aware of this. The
number of children born prematurely is rising because women are having babies
later in life. Researchers
say the education system should adapt to reflect this change. They
are calling for a child's gestation to be recorded on their education records
as a way of flagging up any problems.
'Greater
risk'
"We
know from a Scottish study that the earlier you are born the more likely you
are to have have problems at school", said Glasgow paediatrician Dr Nashwa
Matta.
"But
these children may still be clever and the problems don't appear until the
workload increases at primary or secondary school." Children
born prematurely are more likely to be emotionally immature, lonely and at
greater risk of bullying. They
may have visual perception issues, including difficulties with numbers and
mathematics. Further
traits of prematurely born children may include short memories, attention spans
and problems with multi-tasking.
Some
premature children are also disadvantaged if they are born at the end of the
school year because they are effectively sent to school a year early. If
they had been born full term they would have gone to school the following year. Around
4,000 babies are born prematurely every year in Scotland.
'Behavioural
issues'
Dr
Matta has organised a one-day conference to highlight the issue at the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. "The
simplest thing to do is to put child's gestation on their school entry form,"
said Dr Matta. Then,
when a teacher has a child with difficulty with attention, certain work, and
memory then they will know he's born prematurely and can find out what can be
done so gap doesn't get bigger."
Three-year-old
Findlay Masterton was born three months early. His mum Lorraine is worried he
won't be able to cope when he goes to school. "He
has behavioural issues, there's a strict regime of how he likes things
done," she said. She
added: "Findlay has different wee issues that a kid born full term
wouldn't have and I think these might show up when he goes to school next year. "There's
nothing stated for schools that they have to do anything about this or give
them extra time for their lessons. "Schools
recognise medical problems, but pre-term? I don't think it's taken seriously
enough."
The
Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) backed the call for tailored support
for children with additional support needs. An
EIS spokesperson said: "Teachers and other education professionals working
in our schools are aware of the broad range of additional support that is
sometimes needed to allow all children to benefit fully from their education. "There is a requirement
for continuing investment in adequate ASN resources in all schools, and for teachers
and other professionals to have access to ongoing professional development to
ensure that they can continue meeting the particular needs of all pupils."
From BBC
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0937
hours. Time to do some exercises and clean up for the day. I have worked on the Intros and am ready to begin the first chapter proofreading.
Mid-afternoon.
You had lunch at Penn Station and have been running errands. Presently you are
at Tylersville Kroger’s with one more errand to go. Earlier you did your
exercises and have been taking your blood sugar before lunch rather than before
breakfast, as it is generally much lower. You are finding that lines jump up at
you when to add and delete and are using this as a kind of automaticity. This
is because you have what you need in the back of your mind as it were. This is
the way you used to grade essays, now you are using it for proofing; you could
not do this on the screen but paper is the standard, also in your head of
thirty-seven years on the job. – Amorella
1449
hours. It appears this is going to take longer than I thought because of the
small additions, mostly for content and flow and the deletions. Some sentences
just don’t need to be there.
Follow your bliss, boy, just as Joseph
Campbell instructed. – Amorella
What
a thing to say, and out of the blue.
Part of your bliss was grading papers. Most
teachers of English would not believe this, but those who witnessed you grading
would know better. – Amorella
I never thought of grading as blissful.
I never thought of grading as blissful.
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bliss – noun
perfect
happiness; great joy: she gave a sigh of bliss.
•
a state of spiritual blessedness, typically that reached after death.
verb
[ no obj. ]
(bliss
out or be
blissed out) informal
reach a state of perfect happiness, typically so
as to be oblivious of everything else: [ as adj. ] : blissed-out hippies.
ORIGIN Old
English blīths, bliss, of Germanic origin; related to blithe.
From the Oxford-American
software
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You
returned from the grocery and bank and now Carol is walking around the lake at
Pine Hill Lakes Park. You are facing into the sun so you can see the screen
better.
1535
hours. I don’t think I have ever heard the term “blissed out”. Many people with
spiritual values have learned how to live through Joseph Campbell. I never got
into trouble showing the first episode of “The Power of Myth” in my classes.
Before that I used notes I had taken from Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand
Faces. I used it ever since the fourth quarter Mythology class in the
1970’s. Some could have complained that I was teaching religion, I suppose, but
no one did. The only complaint I can remember along those lines was teaching
from the Old Testament, one of the Bible stories in our British literature
texts for as long as I can remember, mostly in reference to the KJV. One parent
at Indian Hill said her daughter did not have to read it. I never had test
questions relating to the subject so it made no difference to me. I didn’t have
any test/essay questions on Joseph Campbell either. Testing wasn’t the point. I
never tested to instill the concept of human values in my students. Now you
have to teach to test only, at least that’s what I have heard. Probably not
true in the classroom though. I would have continued anyway as I am sure many
others do. I am sure I have written this before, sometime in the blog.
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The documentary, Joseph Campbell and the
Power of Myth has six episodes:
•
Episode 1: The Hero's Adventure
(first broadcast June 21, 1988 on PBS)
About Campbell, hero types, hero deeds,
Jesus Christ, the Buddha, movie heroes, Star Wars as a metaphor, an Iroquois story: the
refusal of suitors, dragons, dreams and Jungian psychology, “follow your
bliss,” consciousness in plants, Gaia, Chartres cathedral, spirituality vs.
economics, emerging myths, “Earthrise” as a symbol.
From
– Wikipedia Offline
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You
can almost picture the complete episode by reading the synopsis above. –
Amorella
1620
hours. This is true. I loved every section in this episode. The students,
almost all of them, showed interest. Many had not seen such a conversational
dialogue as presented by Campbell and Bill Moyers. Chartres Cathedral was
wonderful. And the spirituality vs. economics fit right in my earlier lectures
on “wants and needs” examples in my logic lecture as well as with “MacBeth” and
“Hamlet” characterizations and with the propaganda lectures too. Amazing how a
word or two brings back one thing or another from what I used in classes over
the years.
One more stop, at McD’s on Mason-Montgomery
Road for reading time. Carol is on page 71 of The Eye of God. Go ahead
and post. – Amorella
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