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Federal Budget Cuts From Sequester Affect Special Education and Title 1
Worst victims of Education Sequestration are poor kids and special education students Goodness knows there’s plenty of waste in large scale budgets, but as I’ve been hearing from teachers and...
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Numbers of Identified Students with Specific Learning Disabilities Continues...
Makes you wonder, is there more effective teaching going on, or are fewer kids being identified due to economic constraints: Number of Students Classified As Learning Disabled Continues to Drop [via...
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Complementary and Alternative Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder
www.psychiatrictimes.com/autism/content/article/10168/2132823 According to some estimates, more than half of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) try complementary and alternative...
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A Gifted Student Learns to Thrive with Dyslexia
A Gifted Student Learns to Thrive with Dyslexia This is an piece in the Wall Street Journal that highlights a New York teenager’s school life, with its ups and downs, as a student with dyslexia....
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Learning Disabilities Movement-50 years Old
Learning disabilities’ movement turns 50 James Baucom, long-time faculty member of Landmark College writes in the Washington Post about a watershed speech given back in 1963, which galvanized support...
View ArticleAlan Alda Discusses Dyslexia and Kildonan School
Alan Alda discusses his family experience with dyslexia on WNYC radio today. Alan Alda’s granddaughter goes to Kildonan School in NY (he discusses this in the interview). There’s still so much...
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Arkansas Governor Signs Dyslexia Bill into Law
Citizens celebrate ‘Dyslexia Bill’ New Dyslexia Bill signed into law in Arkansas. Good. And somehow, as handfuls of state legislatures have already passed or are considering passage of similar bills...
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Art Competition for Children and Adults with LD
Art Competition for People with Learning Disabilities The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) is calling for paintings, drawings, poems, songs, animations, and more that portray the...
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Kids’ Hilarious First Reactions to Food Caught on Camera
Kids’ Hilarious First Reactions to Food Caught on Camera Had to post this one. Great facial, muscular reactions by little kids. I must admit I had a pretty similar reaction to Vegemite the first (and...
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Teaching Reading is Harder than Math?
Photo: Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times In Raising Scores, 1 2 3 Is Easier Than A B C Given that this article looks at the performance of low income students, I’m sure this is a multi-faceted...
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Again: Vision and Dyslexia, Unrelated
Vision and Dyslexia, Unrelated Here’s another study, based on pretty sophisticated brain imaging that shows that visual system processing and dyslexia are not linked. While there is little debate that...
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Temple Grandin Sees Autism’s Positive Side
Many of you have heard of Temple Grandin. She’s a professor at Colorado State University, known for her ability to think in pictures in similar way, she says, to animals. She gained initial...
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“You’re Never Too Old to Have a Happy Childhood.”
A few weeks ago my mom passed away and I haven’t felt much like writing or blogging. However that’s changed now. I want to connect the dots from something she emphasized to me a while back, and the...
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Visit a Third World Country to Improve Your Reading
Photo courtesy of University of Vermont I think Steve Jobs, who famously did not go to Stanford (nor actually complete coursework at Reed College where he enrolled) hit on some key ideas concerning...
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Meet Jack, my friend and former student
Recently, the National Center for Learning Disabilities website published an interview with new high school freshman, Jack. NCLD interviews Jack, who is dyslexic, as a real success story. And while...
View ArticleCaine’s Arcade and The Imagination Foundation
The mission of the Imagination Foundation is to find, foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in children around the world to raise a new generation of innovators and problem solvers who have...
View ArticleThe 30th Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity
The 30th Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii will be held on May 19 & 20, 2014. For more information email...
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Finding Joy in the Middle of the Dukkha of Having a Learning Disability
It’s so fascinating to me to track the different attitudes and perspectives about having a learning disability. On one hand there is one that implies that having a learning disability somehow means...
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Online College Directory and Infographic
Interesting infographic (sorry though, slow loading I see) on Online University Learning. Full article and directory here at OnlineCollegeCourse.net
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Succeeding in College with a Learning Disability
From US News and World Report: Succeed in College as a Learning Disabled Student Some pretty basic reminders for students with learning disabilities in college or about to start. While this article...
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