The River Charter School
Posted in K-12 Schools on Feb 27th, 2005 1 Comment »
The River Charter School 11155 Roseland Rd. Sebastian, FL 32958 772-388-1453 matagiri2@earthlink.net
Archive for February, 2005
Myths that Keep us Down
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Feb 25th, 2005 No Comments »
© Heather Dunbar and Paul Goldschmidt heatherdunbar@juno.com Attitudinal barriers exist in the minds of people with and without disabilities. If you don’t have a disability and you believe the things listed below, stop it. You’re hurting people. If you do have a disability and believe in these things, you are getting in your own way. [...]
Color as Assistive Technology
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Feb 25th, 2005 20 Comments »
© Judith Sweeney jsweeney@onionmountaintech.com onionmountaintech.com/ Whenever I present on low and mid tech tools, I always include an activity and a good deal of discussion about using low and high tech tools that involve the use of color. Color is something not often discussed in our college preparation to become good teachers or therapists, but [...]
Language and Literacy Learning in Schools
Posted in Books and Videos on Feb 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Title: Language and Literacy Learning in Schools Authors: Elaine R. Stillman, Louise c. Wilkinson Publisher: Guilford Publications Date Published: October, 2004 ISBN: 1-59385-065-4 Price: $40
How Enabling Goes Bad: A Nation of Wimps
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Feb 24th, 2005 2 Comments »
Psychology Today has a terrific article by Hara Estroff Marano: A Nation of Wimps that touches on numerous social themes that I’ve been thinking and presenting about for close to 20 years now although I have never collected and written about them as well as she does. Article summary from Psychology Today: Parents are going [...]
Nina Ghiselli, Psy.D.
Posted in LD Support Professionals on Feb 24th, 2005 1 Comment »
Nina Ghiselli, Psy.D. 1014 B St. Hayward, CA 94541 510-538-4222 drghiselli@yahoo.com Clinical Psychologist with LD working with adults and teens.
Anadigit Talking Clock
Posted in Low Tech Tools on Feb 21st, 2005 2 Comments »
The Anadigit Talking Clock is an excellent tool for learning to tell time: it has both digital and analog faces on the same clock and it speaks the time as well. This allows someone learning the harder analog face to use the digital and speech for support and comparison. It’s not expensive and runs on [...]
Success for Students with Learning Differences: No-Tech to High-Tech Solutions
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Feb 20th, 2005 2 Comments »
© 2004 Leonard V. Pisano, Ph.D. lvponline@aol.com This article will review different types of supports and instructional interventions, from no tech to high tech, that can accommodate a student with varying degrees of academic difficulties that negatively impact on classroom functioning. The areas addressed will be writing and reading, which are major skills underlying successful [...]
Pocket Bad Speller’s Dictionary
Posted in Books and Videos on Feb 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Title: Random House Webster’s Pocket Bad Speller’s Dictionary Authors: Joseph Krevisky, Jordan L. Linfield Publisher: Random House Reference; 2nd Pocket edition Date Published:December 29, 1997 ISBN: 0375702121
Dan Herlihy
Posted in LD Support Professionals on Feb 16th, 2005 1 Comment »
Dan Herlihy P.O. Box 74 18 Tahoe Dr. Hoosick, NY 12089-0074 518-686-9408 dherlihy@juno.com
Curtis Baptist School
Posted in K-12 Schools on Feb 14th, 2005 No Comments »
The Learning Place Curtis Baptist School 1326 Broad St. Augusta, GA 30901 706-722-5252 howtolive@comcast.net (admissions) www.curtisbaptist.org (click on Curtis School) The Learning Place at Curtis Baptist School
Computers, interruptions, and going deep (or not)
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Feb 13th, 2005 No Comments »
You There, at the Computer: Pay Attention is an interesting look by Katie Hafner at the New York Times at how, as the number of things we use our computers for in a fully connected world increases, our ability to go deeply into one thing diminishes. One might call this “micro-attention deficit disorder” (ADD in [...]