Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Nov 29th, 2000 1 Comment »
© 2000 by the Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities (CCLD) Parents are often the best educational advocates for their children, especially children with a learning disability. True advocacy is a largely positive process, which should build on your child’s strengths and challenges. As your childs best advocate, you are in a unique position to identify [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 29th, 2000 1 Comment »
© 2000 Alex Forbes www.summitlake.com Introduction This is written for those young among us, of whatever age, who like the idea of getting a better rate of return on a given level of invested effort. Who among us has never said, “Gee, I just never could do that”? We might have been talking about anything: [...]
Posted in Computers and Software on Nov 28th, 2000 2 Comments »
© 2000 Bill Lynn What is MP3? MP3 is a quick way of saying MPEG-1 or MPEG-2, Level III”, an audio compression process developed primarily by German technology group Fraunhofer & Thompson. What does MP3 do? The MP3 encoding process takes large audio files, like those found on audio CDs, and compresses them to less [...]
Posted in Low Tech Tools on Nov 28th, 2000 8 Comments »
© 2000 Richard Wanderman This article was first published in 1/2000. As I write this it is 4/24/2000. All of the product information below has time value, which means that some of it is out of date now. Digital cameras are now moving toward “commoditization” which means, cheap and plentiful. Hooray for that. Still, the [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Nov 27th, 2000 No Comments »
© 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Schwab Foundation for Learning All Rights Reserved. Transitions can be difficult. What can parents do to help their child adjust to various academic changes? Dr. Pamela G. Krell, a clinical neuropsychologist, offers these responses to some typical transitions that children experience. Changing from relaxing summer schedule to school schedule. Talk [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 27th, 2000 No Comments »
© 2000 Rich Jezioro, MSW rjezioro@bpd3.lake.k12.il.us I just read your essay One Person’s Path to Literacy (at this site). It mirrors my own life. I am six years older than you and dyslexic too. My dyslexia is manifest mostly in writing. Numbers and letters come out reversed even though I am saying them correctly in [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 27th, 2000 123 Comments »
© 2000 Robert Cherry cw527@freenet.carleton.ca My name is Robert. I’m 51, live in the Canadian province of Quebec, and was diagnosed as having a nonverbal learning disability when I was 42. As a child and adolescent I was a loner because I didn’t have the strength, coordination and social skills to make many friends. I [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 27th, 2000 No Comments »
© 2000 Daniel J. Berkowitz, M.A. Like many in Maine, New England, and around the country, I applaud Governor King’s idea to provide computer access to every 7th through 12th grade student across the state. Technology is advancing more rapidly than most of us can fathom and the desire to help students acquire a good [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Nov 27th, 2000 No Comments »
© 2000 Dr. Caroline Musslewhite carmussel@inficad.com I read this delightful book on my last trip, and tried to think of a way to do it justice in my review. What better way to review a book then to use the approach to writing assessment developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. That group has identified, [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Nov 12th, 2000 No Comments »
All contents © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Schwab Foundation for Learning All Rights Reserved. Any interested person or organization may copy or reprint portions of this article provided such copy may not be sold or otherwise used for commercial purposes and any such copy must contain the above stated copyright notice. Research shows that when [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Nov 12th, 2000 1 Comment »
Name withheld upon request. I am 26 years old and am attending college. The number-one thing that frustrates me and I want to fix is not being able to say what I’m thinking. I can think it but not say it. It seems like I can never get my point across. It’s frustrating when someone [...]
Posted in Portable Keyboards on Nov 8th, 2000 2 Comments »
© 2000 Barbara S. Heinisch heinisch@scsu.ctstateu.edu Barbara Heinisch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at Southern Connecticut State University. During the Spring 2000 semester the Connecticut AlphaSmarts in the Schools Project took place at Southern Connecticut State University and several school in the state. The purpose of this activity was to [...]