Posted in LD Support Professionals on Aug 29th, 2009 No Comments »
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Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Sony launches Amazon challenger Sony has launched a wireless e-reader which allows users to download electronic books on the go. Amazon Kindle, Sony e-Reader and no doubt Apple will have a product in this category soon. All of this is very good for those of us who have a hard time reading “traditional” books the [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Aug 24th, 2009 No Comments »
A Son’s Lesson for a Pilot (His Mother) I learned early in life that I would always have to work harder than other people. I’m dyslexic. Conquering challenges, big and small, has been my obsession since I was a child. When I was on my high school diving team, I dove from the highest platforms, [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Aug 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is a very rare piece of film which is incredible, made me cry. Sullivan was way ahead of her time in the way she taught Keller and it took them many years to get this communication system worked out, let alone Keller’s speech which she had no auditory model for. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in News on Aug 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Parkinson’s: The Pesticide Links Taken together, 30-plus years of research add up to an increasingly persuasive conclusion: exposure to pesticides and other toxins increases the risk of Parkinson’s disease, and we are only now beginning to wrestle with the true scope of the damage. [via kottke.org]