Posted in LD Support Sites, News on Feb 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
The LD Resources web site has been providing information for people with learning disabilities and people who work with people with learning disabilities since 1995. It started as a place for Richard Wanderman (me) to share handouts with people in digital form and since then has grown to include numerous of articles by me and [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Experiment: Gym Class Helps Kids Read Better I’ve always thought that for some kids the typical high school day is backwards, they need to exercise before academics to get their blood chemistry and brains in the right groove for thinking.
Posted in Discussion Topics, News on Feb 20th, 2011 4 Comments »
Should Teachers Be Allowed to Hate Blog About Their Students? Good has an interesting post about a teacher who posted her opinions about her students on her blog. Natalie Munroe, a 30-year-old Philadelphia-area high school English teacher took her extremely candid commentary about students to her public blog—and of course a student discovered it. Munroe [...]
Posted in News on Feb 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Boston Pediatrician Facing Sex Abuse Suit Dies Melvin Levine died at age 71, attorney Edward Mahoney said, adding that he did not have details on when Levine died or the cause of death.
Posted in Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Feb 5th, 2011 12 Comments »
© 2011 Sanford Shapiro Imagine this: You’re six years old, and for the next 10 years or so, a sizable portion of your mental and emotional fuel tank will be used up avoiding humiliation, developing feelings of not being good enough, falling behind in assignments, getting teased, being misunderstood, and struggling way more in basic [...]