Maharashtra Dyslexia Association
Posted in LD Support Organizations on Mar 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Offering resources and services for dyslexia.
Archive for March, 2011
The TED Talks Education Brain Trust
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Mar 13th, 2011 No Comments »
TED Talks for Education If you love the TED talks as I do, you’ll be excited to see this upcoming launch of a TED forum, targeting forward thinking specific to education. Check out their online registration to be part of the forum.
RFBD Comes To iPads, iPods, and iPhones
Posted in Computers and Software, LD Support Organizations, Technology Issues and Ideas on Mar 10th, 2011 13 Comments »
Recordings For the Blind and Dyslexic, which has the largest collection of digitized textbooks and literature (64,000 titles) in the world, finally will make that available through iTunes. I, along with many others, have been waiting for this for a while. I hope the app (which is selling for $19.95) will be worth the wait. [...]
About Sanford
Posted in Personal Stories on Mar 7th, 2011 3 Comments »
For those of you who don’t know, I’ve just become the owner of this longstanding website, and so I want to tell you a little about myself. I’ve been working with kids for over twenty five years. I settle on that number (25) because it’s true and because it signals lots of experience. More than [...]
Apple and LD
Posted in Computers and Software, Education Issues and Ideas on Mar 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Apple Experiments with New Way to Differentiate Accommodations for students with learning disabilities AppleInsider reports on Apple experimenting with a fantastic approach to deliver individualized accommodations, with regards to how information looks and feels to students, to their computer screens. This would take “Differentiated Instruction” an oft-used educational buzz word to very cool heights. It [...]
Richard Wanderman
Posted in LD Support Sites on Mar 2nd, 2011 4 Comments »
Richard Wanderman: As I (Sanford) assume ownership of LD Resources, I want to speak a bit about Richard Wanderman, the founder. To say I have tremendous appreciation and respect for Richard for what he created here at LD Resources is an understatement. I’ve known Richard since about 1994 when I was in private practice in [...]