Posted in Discussion Topics, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Personal Stories on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
I met this guy Gilles today on the Big Island of Hawaii. I bought some of his art work and we spoke a little while. He’s a quadriplegic whose face seemed to beam. Talk about resilience and working through barriers, wow. Stricken with CP, and without use of arms or legs, he paints with another [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas, LD Support Professionals on Apr 25th, 2011 No Comments »
Dale Brown, a well-known speaker and writer on learning disabilities will be speaking on Rockland Internet radio, Tuesday April 26 at 6:25PM EST. Dale Brown speaks on Dan Windheim’s internet radio show about LD, ADA assistance and more. Dale’s been an important contributor on LD Resources. Her bio’s worth reading, as are her articles. Hope [...]
Posted in LD Support Sites on Apr 21st, 2011 No Comments »
I love the aims of
Posted in Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Apr 18th, 2011 7 Comments »
I was sitting around a campfire, in the high desert country of southern Utah, miles from creature comforts, listening to a group of teenage boys telling their stories to me and another visiting educational consultant. They were introducing themselves and sharing the reasons why their parents sent them there. “There” was a pretty austere location [...]
Posted in Colleges on Apr 15th, 2011 No Comments »
A story on National Public Radio highlighting the increasing number of colleges in the United States that support students with ASD, particularly I would say, those with Asperger’s. This is great to see. There are other colleges besides the ones mentioned that have mentoring and other support services available. [via Richard Wanderman]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas, LD Support Organizations, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health on Apr 12th, 2011 1 Comment »
This is a short clip from a speech that poet LeDerick Horne, who’s also dyslexic, gave about Project Eye to Eye, a mentoring program for students with learning disabilities. He speaks to the inner and emotional turmoil many students go through.
Posted in Camps and Residential, K-12 Schools, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Apr 12th, 2011 No Comments »
I’ve had a few kids go to this camp and they really enjoyed it. The camp has lots of activities but also has a remedial component to it as well. It’s the summer program of the
Posted in K-12 Schools on Apr 9th, 2011 10 Comments »
The Prospect School, a new school within the Wooster School (Danbury CT)
Posted in Discussion Topics on Apr 4th, 2011 No Comments »
There’s a badly needed discussion going on about how in the US, we have a “herd mentality” when it comes to going to college straight from high school.
Posted in Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Apr 2nd, 2011 9 Comments »
When I wrote “An Elephant in the LD Room” my intention was to start highlighting four main realities: 1. How hurt, shame, anger. depression and self-abuse can become a part of the lives of children and adults with learning disabilities, 2. As a result of #1, schooling to address the remediation of the learning difficulties [...]
Posted in Books and Videos on Apr 1st, 2011 2 Comments »
I’ve been looking forward to seeing Harvey Hubbell’s Movie about growing up with Dyslexia ever since I first heard about it on this site. It opens this week at the Connecticut Film Festival. From the production clips I’ve seen, the film has humor and insight and after the opening, “Hubbell — who has dyslexia — [...]