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Email Newsletter
May 2004
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Recently we opened a new part
of the Judge Rotenberg Center web site that is especially for parents and
referring agencies. It is called the “Parent/Agency” site. This site
enables both the parents and referring agencies to go online and see
updated daily, weekly, monthly and yearly charts of a student’s behavior
data. These are the very same charts that ourclinicians,
program designers and case managers use to make decisions about needed
changes in the students’ treatment programs.
Parents and
referring agencies will also be able to view every single change that has
been made in a student’s treatment program, as well as photos of the
student, periodic reports on the student’s progress, report cards, etc.
There is also a place where parents and referring agencies can send us
email messages with suggestions, problems, etc. To be able to use this
site, a special user name and password are required which may be obtained
from our Student Services Department. Once a parent or agency obtains a user name
and password, he/she may gain access to the records of a student(s) placed at JRC, but not to the records of any other student.
To enable you to try out
this web site immediately, even without creating your own user name and
password, you can use the user name "demo" and the password "demo4u."
These will enable you to see a sample set of information about a fictional
student named "Jane Smith" that we have placed on the site for
demonstration purposes. The following is a step-by-step explanation of how
to explore this demonstration site.
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1. First, go to the home page of the
JRC web site (www.judgerc.org)
which is shown
below. Then click on the label "Parent/Agency Login"
(see circle at bottom left) in
the left-hand margin. |

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2. After clicking on "Parent/Agency Login"
(circled words in lower left panel), you are
brought to a login page (see below) where you can use
"demo" as the user name
and "demo4u" as the password. (To reach your own
child's actual data, instead of
this sample demonstration data, you will need to get a
special user name and
password from our Student Services Department.) |

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3. After logging in you will see a
"profile" page containing photos of the student as well
as of his/her Case Manager, Clinician and Teacher,
as shown below. |

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4. Clicking on "Charts" in the left margin (see arrow
at top)
brings up an updated
version of each of the charts that are kept for
the student's behavior categories. For
example, this is the Daily
chart for the behavior category "Disruptive Behaviors"
(see circle at bottom). On this Daily chart each dot shows the total number of times
the student showed behaviors in this general category on one day. |

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5. Clicking on the words "Specific Behaviors" at the
top of the chart (see arrow at
top right) makes a window pop up (see arrow at left) that displays a
list of all of the
specific behaviors that are counted under the
general category "Major Disruptive." |

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6. Clicking on the word "Week" at the top of the chart
(see arrow at top) brings up a
weekly chart of the same general behavior
category (Disruptive Behaviors) that
was previously shown on a daily
chart. On this weekly chart, each dot shows the
total number of
disruptive behaviors that occurred during that week. |

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7. Clicking on the word "Month" (see arrow
at top) brings up a
monthly chart of the
same general behavior category (Disruptive
Behaviors) shown previously. On this
monthly chart each dot shows
the total number of disruptive behaviors that
occurred during one
month instead of one week as was the case in the previous
weekly chart. |

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8. You can also view the daily, weekly and monthly
charts for any of the other general
categories of behaviors being
treated by clicking on the drop-down menu (see
arrow at top). For example,
this shows a daily chart for another general category -
in this case, the Aggressive Behaviors (see circle at
bottom) of the same student. |

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9. Clicking on the words "Treatment Changes" at the top
of the chart (see arrow)
makes a window pop up that displays every
change that has been made in the
student's treatment program from
the day of enrollment. Each change is dated. |

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10. Clicking on the word "Documents" in the left margin
(see circle at left) brings up a
list of documents that are available to view.
To view one of these documents --
for example, a Quarterly Progress
Report -- click on the "Open/Download"
button to the right of the
name of the file (see arrow at right). |

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11. This is an example of a Quarterly Progress Report
that can be viewed in this way. |

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12. Clicking on the words "Report Cards" in the left
margin (see circle at left) brings
up the student's most recent report card
broken down into categories of subject,
quarter grade, and final
grade. |

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13. This is an example of a set of photographs of the
student that can be viewed by
clicking on the word "Pictures" in the
left margin (see circle at left). Clicking on
one of the small thumbnail
versions of each photo (see arrow at right) makes the
photo much larger. |

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14. This is an example of a fully-sized
photo that has been enlarged by clicking on the
thumbnail version. |

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15. Clicking on the word "Calendar" (see
circle at left) brings up
a student calendar
that looks like this. The calendar shows each
upcoming event relevant to the
student or JRC in general. Events may
include IEP meetings, DARs (Day at the
Residence), and home visit. |

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16. Clicking on the words "Email Suggestions" in the
lower left-hand corner (see
circle at bottom left) brings up a window (see arrow) in
which the user can type
in a message that will be sent immediately
to our Student Services Department. |

| Please try out this web
site. If you have any problems
following these instructions please feel free to call
(781)
828-2202 and ask for Joe (ext. 4205) or Rosemary (ext. 4203).
Please
click here to learn more
about our Treatment program or visit our web site at
www.judgerc.org.
To contact a member of our
Admissions Department, please email Julie at
j.gomes@judgerc.org. |
Judge Rotenberg Educational Center
240 Turnpike Street
Canton, MA 02021
Phone: (781) 828-2202 Fax: (781) 828-2804
www.judgerc.org
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