Archive for January 11th, 2012
Social Navigator: Groundbreaking Social Skills App Challenges Conventional Parenting and Teaching Practices
New York, NY, January 11, 2012 –(PR.com)– Has technology advanced to the point where an iPad can mentor a child in the middle of a social conflict? A New York behavior management specialist thinks so. Fed up with traditional interventions used to manage and motivate children with social, behavioral and academic challenges, Lorraine Millan, who [...]
Slow road to recovery in quake-ravaged Haiti
By Kevin Gray and Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE | Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:40pm EST PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – If there is hope in Haiti, it can be found in Mertilus Aland. The 18-year-old eight-grader is flourishing in a new school built after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, dreaming of one day becoming a doctor in the violent [...]
In Cuba’s hinterland a business is born
By Marc Frank GUAIMARO, Cuba | Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:25pm EST GUAIMARO, Cuba (Reuters) – Guaimaro, just one of many small poor and dusty towns along Cuba’s sparsely traveled central highway, is best known as the spot where the island’s first constitution was signed during the independence war with Spain. These days the talk [...]
