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THIS IS NOT A QUIET SCHOOL. The hallways are filled with the sounds of kids talking and playing. The walls are festooned with banners, photographs and artwork. Parents always ask whether it's too much stimulation, says director Monica Osgood, but the school wants its students to adapt to the "real world." Celebrate the Children (CTC), which costs $47,856 a year--paid by the state--is one of a growing number of DIR schools. It opened its doors in Stanhope, N.J., in January 2004 with just three students. It now has 41, from toddlers to teens, and is still...
...challenge: to arrange themselves in height order without stepping over the lines and falling "off the boat." The task combines communication skills, problem solving and visual, spatial skills. Teachers at CTC are trained to work on sensory issues and use the principles of occupational therapy throughout the day, Osgood explains, rather than in a separate program...
...Osgood worked in an ABA program for six years. "It does a great job with skills," she says, "but the kids lacked the ability to think on their feet, to problem solve and to engage socially." She also feels that the ABA emphasis on "looking normal" doesn't address the reasons for behaviors like flapping and rocking: "Those are organizing strategies to cope with anxiety. Our philosophy is not to say 'Don't do that.' In DIR, we respect them for who they are but give them the tools they need for successful lives." Sometimes literally: Osgood tosses...
...Tristan Osgood, 13, who plays electric guitar in Grace Chapel's band, needed help when his grandfather died last year. He knew that the Bible says he would see his grandfather again someday, but he didn't feel certain enough. Then came the Grace Chapel winter retreat in New Hampshire. "I just went out into the snow," says Tristan. "I was cold, but suddenly I didn't care. It was like there's this barrier around you, just you and God, like you could bawl your eyes out and nobody would care." It was the moment that Tristan had been...
Despite years of second-class media citizenship, radio has never lost its fervent champions. "We take radio for granted, but it's in our cars, our kitchens, our bedrooms," says Charles Osgood, the CBS Sunday-night TV anchor who also does wry, and often rhyming, commentaries on CBS radio each weekday morning. "If someone told me I couldn't do any more TV, I'd be unhappy. But if I had to choose, it would be radio." Another stalwart of the medium, News Commentator Paul Harvey is a surviving link to an earlier era of network radio...