Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Nov 29th, 1995 2 Comments »
© 1990 Richard Wanderman Author’s Note Portions of this list came from The Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, and The Whole Earth Review. Students Pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students. Pull everything out of yourself. Work hard. Then work harder. Success isn’t how far you got, but the [...]
Posted in Low Tech Tools on Nov 29th, 1995 No Comments »
© 1989 Richard Wanderman I’ve never owned a Rolodex or a DayTimer. I’ve never owned an electronic organizer. Some people can’t live without a Rolodex or a DayTimer, even with a computer on their desk. Some people can’t live without a small electronic organizer, even though they have a computer on their desk. For me, [...]
Posted in Low Tech Tools on Nov 29th, 1995 67 Comments »
© 1992 Steven Halperin 71744.2535@compuserve.com I purchased my Voice Organizer from a catalog on a Continental Airline flight, but Sharper Image carries it also. It is made by a company in California and costs about $199.99, but I had to increase the memory which cost me about $40.00 for the upgrade. It will fit comfortably [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 29th, 1995 No Comments »
© 1987 Laurie Fais, Ph.D. Author’s Note This article was written in 1987 for the Macintosh Lab Monitor (a newsletter, now defunct) while Laurie Fais and Richard Wanderman were working at The Forman School (a private school in Connecticut serving students with learning disabilities). The research and its results are still useful and relevant today. [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Nov 27th, 1995 No Comments »
© 1987 Jay Brill, M.Ed. dor_l_dor@radix.net As a person who manages information for a living, I find it ironic that my learning disability has had such an impact on how I handle the written aspects of my work. Today, after years of trying to “pass” in a world that writes on a casual basis, I [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 12th, 1995 No Comments »
© 1994 David Stannard Twenty years ago I went with my wife and two pre-school boys to live in a village on the Bering Sea. Seen from this distant time and place, it was like coming home — no schedules, no stop lights, no TV, no 2nd hand experience, no arbitrary intrusions at all. Plenty [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 12th, 1995 No Comments »
© 1993 Mark Laursen mwlaursen@aol.com I am 35 years old (as I write this in 1993) and only found about my dyslexia in February 1990. I found out about dyslexia from the TV show, Bill Cosby. Through the years people thought I had a problem but just could not pin-point it. In one school system [...]