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...Alpine, every goal, every lesson, every response is carefully documented in binders that track each child's progress. That is the rigorous heart of ABA, explains executive director Bridget Taylor, who co-founded the school in 1988. "I'm a scientist-practitioner; I need data," says Taylor, a certified ABA therapist with a Ph.D. in psychology. The binder for Jodi DiPiazza, 4, is easily seven inches thick, though Jodi has been at Alpine less than a year. Like most other children at the school, she started ABA therapy at home as a toddler...
...talk at all until age 3, she speaks well and is mastering skills quickly with the help of two hours of tutoring in the evening. "From the moment she wakes up till she goes to sleep, everything is structured," says her mother Michelle, who is thrilled with Jodi's progress...
Kirby also reprised the progress of the curricular review, which began in the first year of his term. The review has led to Faculty approval of a semester delay in concentration choice and the introduction of secondary fields, but professors are still far from agreement on the shape of the review’s centerpiece—the next system of general education and the future of the Core Curriculum...
...transit commuters from East Boston and decongest the seriously overcrowded central stations. The Romney administration has essentially killed this project, citing a lack of available funds. State transportation funds, however, are in anything but short supply. The Romney administration is only choosing to divert them to less worthy projects. Progress is proceeding rapidly on the $500 million Greenbush commuter rail line, which will serve Boston’s South Shore, home to some of the Commonwealth’s most affluent communities. The Somerville/Medford Green Line extension, by contrast, is estimated to cost $559 million, virtually the same...
...vote last week to keep in the bill $700 million for a railroad in Mississippi damaged by the hurricane that has already been rebuilt (a project dubbed the "Railroad to Nowhere" by critics), the Senate rejected $15 million for a program to promote eating seafood. "We're making good progress," said Coburn. "It tells you they're [his colleagues] listening better." With the Senate looking to move on to other issues, Coburn says he won't push for votes on all 19 of his amendments, but will insist on a handful, particularly one to stop money from going to Northrop...