Posted in Discussion Topics on May 25th, 2011 No Comments »
In a workshop called “Dare to Dream,” two young men with Asperger’s syndrome and a young woman with dyslexia told their audience of high school students they can persevere if they stay organized, work hard and ask for help when they need it. People with Learning Disabilities of any kind, need a positive view of [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, News on May 20th, 2011 No Comments »
This Business Insider photo article, notes fifteen very successful CEO’s who have achieved tremendous success and some breakthrough thinking, in spite of their learning disabilities. Some of them attribute part of their success to their learning disabilities. Does Steve Jobs really have dyslexia? [via Carolyn D. Cowen]
Posted in Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Ugh. Haven’t we learned yet? Children are growing up with too much pressure to conform and to achieve in a way that minimizes the need for play, robust and creative physical activity, imaginative thinking and oral language development. Early emphasis on drill and rote memorization of facts has not proven to produce long term results. [...]
Posted in Camps and Residential, Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on May 14th, 2011 No Comments »
If your child with a learning disability is spinning out of control emotionally and behaviorally and you start looking for a therapeutic school or program, how do you go about that? First, if you can, get a current psycho-educational or neuropsychological evaluation. This will help measure and describe the interplay between the current behavioral distress [...]
Posted in Books and Videos, Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, News, Social Issues and Ideas on May 13th, 2011 No Comments »
The study mentioned in this article in Bloomberg Business Week, is apparently given some mention and explanation in the new HBO documentary, “Journey Into Dyslexia.”. From the Cass Business School in London, the study draws a link between having dyslexia and business success. I met the author of the study a couple of years ago [...]
Posted in Books and Videos, Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, Social Issues and Ideas on May 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Do people with dyslexia make better business visionaries? Apparently, one of the themes of the new HBO documentary, “Journey into Dyslexia” is the reported link between dyslexia and successful entrepreneurship. This opens up so many cans of worms to discuss. I’ll weigh in more later.
Posted in Discussion Topics, Personal Stories on May 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Danny Glover has been one of my favorite actors for a while. He speaks about his life experiences and dyslexia as well as how he overcame his feelings of inadequacy. I sometimes have mixed feelings about trotting out the celebrities who have dyslexia. I’m not at all implying that having dyslexia leads to great acting [...]
Posted in Colleges on May 11th, 2011 No Comments »
This is a link to Lori Kobelan’s site. It looks like she’s put a lot of time into cateloguing various options for pursuing a Master’s degree in Teaching.
Posted in LD Support Professionals, Personal Stories on May 9th, 2011 No Comments »
I know Maryann Wolf is a top scientific researcher and writer about dyslexia. I never realized her own son is dyslexic. In this article, she writes a letter to parents explaining the differences in brain organization.
Posted in Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health on May 5th, 2011 No Comments »
This is a wonderful article from Good, about the absolute need to help young people and teachers re-imagine education in profoundly different ways, including imagining jobs that don’t yet exist. I’ve always been hopeful (“you might say I’m a dreamer…”) for a time when having learning disabilities is truly seen as “learning differently” and simply [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, Reading, Writing, and Math on May 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
This is a recent article from the NY Times online, The Case for Cursive. It makes the case that kids are losing out by not being taught cursive writing. Since the increase in what’s known as “teaching to the tests”, there’s little time for cursive writing instruction. Plus, with the reality of word processing and [...]
Posted in Books and Videos, Discussion Topics on May 1st, 2011 13 Comments »
Academy and Emmy Award winning filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond’s soon to be released documentary “Journey Into Dyslexia” premieres May 11th on HBO. Here’s Ben Foss, one of the adults in the documentary, talking about it: I don’t currently get HBO, but am thinking about ordering the DVD. Would love to hear from anyone who [...]