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Applied Behavior Analysis

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows two classmates playing catch. One of the students says to the other, "Hey Patty, Do you want to play ball?" Patty responds by using her hands positioned on her head to nod "Yes." Two teachers are in the foreground one asks the other, "What's that odd behavior?" The other says, "She's nodding YES. Those are the physical prompts I used." The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Patty's teacher returned the book on applied behavior analysis before he had a chance to read the chapter on fading physical prompts."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Finding Filling Files Fulfilling

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows a special educator holding several file folders as he stands in front of a four-drawer file cabinet and says, "Thank goodness we're finally done with the IEP. Now we can file it and do what we really want." The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Fred finds filling file cabinets a strangely fulfilling part of his job."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Cadaver Lab

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows a physician and a physical therapy student dressed in medical scrubs standing on the far side table where a cadaver with the lower legs showing is on a table. On the near side of the table are two school psychology students dressed in street clothes and holding clip boards and pencils. The physician says to the physical therapy student, "OK, now pull back the skin to expose the quadricep." One school psychology student asks, "How do I score that?" The other student says about the cadaver, "He didn't give an incorrect response -- give him 2 points. That puts him in the range of moderate to severe intellectual disability." The tag line under the cartoon reads, "In the cadaver lab, physical therapy and school psychology students work together in an experimental interdisciplinary training program."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Up on the Right Side of Bed

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon has four panels. In the first panel a school administrator (Mr. Moody) is sound asleep in his bed a home. In the second panel two colleagues sneak into his room and turn his bed, while he sleeps, around so it is facing the opposite direction. In the third panel Mr. Moody awakens, gets out of bed and stands while stretching both arms high above his head and says, "Aah!" In the fourth panel Mr. Moody arrives at his office at school and says to his assistant (seated at a desk using a computer), "Let's start including and supporting all our students!" The assistant looks confused. The tag line under the cartoon reads, "As a last resort, school staff found a way to help Mr. Moody get up on the right side of the bed."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Lobsterville

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows a boy being greeted by man who has one hand that looks like a lobster claw in front of a building that looks like a gigantic lobster trap with a giant lobster already caught inside. The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Mr. Crusty welcomes Fred to the Lobsterville Special Education Center where their motto is 'You can get in, but you can't get out!'"
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Classroom Hamster

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows a cage with a hamster on a stationary wheel and person's hand is reaching and putting shredded paper on the bottom. Above this image it reads, "The #1 Sign a Teacher Does Not Find a Consultant's Input Supportive." The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Consultant's Report is Found Shredded as Bedding for the Classroom Hamster."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Wheel of Misfortune

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows a game show host about to spin a wheel which is labeled, "Wheel of Misfortune: Severe Disabilities School Version), while his smiling assistant directs the audiences attention to the wheel. The pie-shaped sections on the wheel include 6 categories 3 of which take up a total of 75% of the wheel, 25% each (Special Education Class in District, Special Education Class Out of District, Special Education School). Two categories each take up 10% of the wheel (Home-Based Instruction & Special Education Class in Neighborhood School). The final category, Regular Class with Support, takes up only 5% of the wheel.
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Voting Regularities

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon has two panels stacked vertically, both showing the same image of team members sitting around a table at a meeting. In the top panel the facilitator says, "All in favor, raise your hand." as the majority raised their hands in agreement. In the lower panel a person who wasn't part of the majority has the only raised hand while he says, "But what about my concerns?" The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Sometimes even VOTING REGULARITIES can be Problematic."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Force Field

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows a student in a wheelchair with his one-to-one paraprofessional pushing him in his wheelchair. They surrounded by a nearly invisible force field. The student's classmates can't see the force field and bump into it as they try to approach him. The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Joey noticed a mysterious force field around his assistant that children could not break through."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Peg's Question

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows a young girl sitting on her mother's lap in an overstuffed arm chair with a lamp and end table next to it. The child says to her mother, "Mom, there's a boy in my class with disabilities. Weren't there any kids with disabilities where we used to live?" The tag line reads, "Peg doesn't know that the kids with disabilities in her old district were sent to special education schools." The note on the side indicates, "Inspired by Peg Smith."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

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