Thursday, September 30, 2010
Memory : Popular Acronyms & Acrostics
A few of the most popular acronyms are listed below:
To remember the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), try this man's name:
ROY G. BIV
For naming the planets in order from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto):
My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets
The biological taxonomy (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species):
Kings Play Cards On Fat Green Stools
The arithmetic order of operations (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction):
PEMDAS (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally)
To remember the color codes on resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components:
Bright Boys Rave Over Young Girls But Veto Getting Wed
Medical students can remember the 12 cranial nerves with:
On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Finely Vested German Viewed A Hawk
The basic trig functions (sine=opposite/hypotenuse) (cosine=adjacent/hypotenuse) (tangent=opposite/adjacent):
SOH CAH TOA
The great lakes of North America (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior):
HOMES
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Robert X. Cringely
Friday, September 24, 2010
Jane Goodall
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Free entrance to national parks this Saturday
Performing Arts Project or Travolta Film Workshop Premiere
The free film premiere of the June, 2010 summer workshop will be on Oct. 12th, Tuesday, at 5:30PM at Jastro Park. Jastro Park is between Elm and Myrtle Avenues and between Truxtun Avenue and 18th Street, just east of the 99 Freeway. The movie will be shown on a jumbo outdoor screen.
Dinner will be served for $8 or free to KRC clients. Dinner will be a tri tip sandwich, chips, cookie and soda. If you would like to order dinner for yourself, and/or others, please contact Pamela Flockton at 661.865.8245.
I will be attending (wouldn't miss this for the world!) but am not responsible for this free event. No need to RSVP to me or to anyone in KHSD. Just come and enjoy!
This is a free presentation.
KHSD is not endorsing the purchase of or attendance to this service or event.
Holley Arbeit
Speech-Language Pathologist
Kern High School District
Stockdale High School
Room 606
2800 Buena Vista Road
Bakersfield, CA 93311
O: 661.665.2800
Fax: 661.665.0914
Intradistrict: 62068
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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Tonight 9pm - The New York Times references our guest as "The Child Whisperer" Elaine Hall author of "Now http://tl.gd/64957k #Autism #tck
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Transitions are difficult for most autistic
Sent: Sep 16, 2010 6:00p
Transitions are difficult for most autistic to make & going back to school may be the most challenging one there is. http://dld.bz/pt7N
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Asperger/High Functioning Support Group Meeting Next Tuesday,9.21.10
Meeting next week. Note: New location and time. See attached.
Thank you for RSVPing with a quick email to me.
Holley Arbeit
Speech-Language Pathologist
Stockdale High School
Room 606
2800 Buena Vista Road
Bakersfield, CA 93311
Work: 661.665.2800X 68
Fax: 661.665.0914
Intradistrict: 62068
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Asperger Syndrome/High Functioning Autism
Support Group
Who: Parents, professionals or other caretakers
No students, please
When: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
6 – 7:30pm
Where: Kern County Superintendent of Schools Building
Room 1A, Main Floor
1300 17th St.
Bakersfield 93301
The building is on the northwest corner of 17th and L St. There is free parking in the parking lot that one enters from 18th St., immediately east of K St. The parking lot is open until 7pm. Anyone parked in there prior to 7pm can exit at any time, day or night.
Why: Start of the Year Gathering
Share your summer successes, concerns, network
"Take Away" Info: Problem Solving Strategy
RSVP by phone or email:
Holley Arbeit, Speech-Language Pathologist
holley_arbeit@khsd.k12.ca.us 665.2800 X68
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Parent Support Group_ 9.21.10
Support Group
Who: Parents, professionals or other caretakers
No students, please
When: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
6 – 7:30pm
Where: Kern County Superintendent of Schools Building
Room 1A, Main Floor
1300 17th St.
Bakersfield 93301
The building is on the northwest corner of 17th and L St. There is free parking in the parking lot that one enters from 18th St., immediately east of K St. The parking lot is open until 7pm. Anyone parked in there prior to 7pm can exit at any time, day or night.
Why: Start of the Year Gathering
Share your summer successes, concerns, network
"Take Away" Info: Problem Solving Strategy
RSVP by phone or email:
Holley Arbeit, Speech-Language Pathologist
holley_arbeit@khsd.k12.ca.us 665.2800 X68
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Dear parents, caretakers and professionals,
Well, we are in our third year and back in full swing for the 2010-2011 school year. I am looking forward to seeing all that attend the support group, either regularly or sporadically.
Big change: There is a new name, meeting place and start/end times for the support group. This should make the group more accessible to our entire community. The building is on the northwest corner of 17th and L Streets. There is free parking in the parking lot that one enters from 18th St., immediately east of K St. The parking lot is open until 7pm. Anyone parked in there prior to 7pm can exit at any time, day or night.
The group is now under the "umbrella" of the Kern Autism Network and can be found at:
No other changes have been made. The format of the meetings will be the same unless you, as participants, would like a change.
Our first meeting will have no speaker, giving everyone an opportunity to share how summer and the start of school went. I will always bring "take-away" strategies or background information to support social communication, executive functioning (organization) or sensory integration skills.
Asperger Syndrome/High Functioning Autism Support Group: Free monthly parent/caregiver support group meetings at Kern County Superintendent of Schools Building at
1300 17th St., Bakersfield 93301, Room 1A, Main Floor. Third Tuesday of each month September - May (no December meeting) from 6 - 7:30PM. This group offers a forum for families to share information and learn with other families in similar situations. Occasional guest speakers address specific issues as identified by support group participants. Meetings focus on concerns for pre-teens, teens and young adults.
Facilitator: Holley Arbeit, M.A., Speech-Language Pathologist. For further information, call
661.204.8531 or
661.665.2800 X68.
Holley Arbeit
Speech-Language Pathologist
Kern High School District
Stockdale High School
Room 606
2800 Buena Vista Road
Bakersfield, CA 93311
O: 661.665.2800 X68
Fax: 661.665.0914
Intradistrict: 62068
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg
Memory : Get Organized
Having a good organizational system in place will ensure that information will not be misplaced, because if you have a specific place for everything, the mind knows exactly where to go to retrieve that information. For example, a disorganized person might throw their keys anywhere in the house. This means that they must remember at all times where their keys are, otherwise the keys become lost. If you are organized and always place your keys on the hook next to the door, then your brain doesn't need to remember where they are because they are always in the same place.
For less tangible information such as phone numbers and dates, you could use a PDA or notebook to keep track of the information. This frees up some mental energy for more creative or productive uses. Once this stuff is written down, you no longer have to expend energy keeping it in your brain.