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What Are We Measuring with Student Achievement Tests?
From good.is Education Reform Starts With Community Reform Great article on the pitfalls of linking student achievement scores to an array of social functions, without considering community values. In...
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Researchers Find “Biomarker” for Dyslexia
Researchers Find a Biological Marker For Dyslexia In Kids Another piece of evidence proving that for many people, the difficulties with fluent reading and accurate spelling is related to how their...
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New Findings on Language Acquisition for Children with Autism
New findings published in Pediatrics by the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Center for Autism and Related Disorders reveal that 70 percent of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who have a...
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The Battle Rages: Phonological Versus Visual Causes of LD and Dyslexia
I want to weigh in on the on-going and often heated debate on effective treatments for dyslexia and related learning differences. There is a kind of intellectual territorialism within the field of...
View ArticleMobile Think Tank for Kids
From Good.is Mobile Think Tank for Cognitive Science Cool concept to bring cognitive science (science of the mind and brain) into a collaborative and mobile arena for schools and the public. The Think...
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Another State Law to Screen for Dyslexia in the Works
Bill aims to help dyslexic children This time it’s Arkansas. A list of state laws pertaining to dyslexia.
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Can IEP Meetings be Tape Recorded?
Tape-recording IEP Meetings: What Does the Law Say? Interesting and useful information about laws and policies regarding a parent’s ability to record an IEP meeting.
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Maryland Special Education Bill Would Make it Easier for Parents to Dispute IEPs
Maryland Special Education Bill Would Make it easier for parents to dispute IEPs If approved, the legislation would change the current system in Maryland, which states that the person bringing a...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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7 Things You Need to Know About Your Local Public School
From Good.Is 7 Things You Need to Know About Your Local Public School From the article: # 7. If your school believes that the purpose of public education is to prepare students to be well educated in...
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Vision Therapy to Address Learning Disabilities? One L.A. School Official...
Photo Credit: Samantha Contis Vision Therapy to Address Learning Disabilities? One L.A. School Official Says ‘Scam’ I know there are well-meaning people who advocate for vision therapy as an effective...
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