Sean C. Morgan
Of The New Era
Hawthorne Elementary School teacher Tami White’s room has become a statewide training site in a special kindergarten program for children with autism.
“It’s kind of different,” said White, one of eight nationally certified special education teachers in Oregon. She runs a program called Practical Academic Life Skills (PALS), and an autism program called the Star Program.
The program was developed by Joel Arick, a professor at Portland State…