Posted in Computers and Software, Learning Materials, Technology Issues and Ideas on Oct 31st, 2011 No Comments »
Image: Courtesy of Christian Boer I’ve heard of this before and can’t quite make up my mind about it. This article in Scientific American describes a typographic font created by a graphic designer from the Netherlands, that supposedly makes reading print easier for some people with dyslexia. I suppose if it’s helpful to some then [...]
Posted in Colleges, Education Issues and Ideas on Oct 24th, 2011 No Comments »
After reading this article in the NY Times online, two themes emerged in my head: 1. Create curriculum for entrepreneurship at the high school level and, 2. the Cass Business School study that identified upwards of 35% of successful serial entrepreneurs in the US self-identified as having dyslexia and/or ADHD. I’m a big fan of [...]
Posted in Computers and Software, Education Issues and Ideas, LD Support Professionals, Technology Issues and Ideas on Oct 23rd, 2011 11 Comments »
I’ve recently begun working with a 10 year old boy who has dyslexia. That’s not unusual for me. It’s an important part of what I do in my educational consulting practice, and I’ve been doing it for years. What’s new is that the young boy and his family live about four and a half hours [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, News on Oct 20th, 2011 1 Comment »
“The American Academy of Pediatrics this week issued new guidelines urging doctors to begin looking for signs of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD – in children as young as four years old. Before, the guidelines had set the minimum age at 6 years old.” These new guidelines, discussed here on NPR’s On Point Radio [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Social Issues and Ideas on Oct 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Too often we as educators and parents, get hyper-focused on the things our/your kids can’t do or struggle with. Even with the best of intentions, adults lose perspective. We run the risk of trying so hard, too hard, to squeeze children with learning disabilities into the mold of what we want for our kids in [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health on Oct 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Pretty amazing to see just how wrong an attempt at incentivizing success in student performance can go. From Good.is A couple of Orange County California schools came up with a poorly thought out concept to reward students who performed better on high stakes tests. “High-performing students received black cards, the ones in the middle got [...]
Posted in LD Support Sites on Oct 7th, 2011 No Comments »
An interesting and pretty thorough article from US News and World Report, Colleges Step Up to Meet Dyslexia Challenge, which addresses a recent meeting at Stanford University, of 45 college admission deans on the different aspects of the admissions process and levels of support once in college, for students with documented learning disabilities. Interestingly, given [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, News, Social Issues and Ideas, Technology Issues and Ideas on Oct 6th, 2011 3 Comments »
There’s plenty of posts and testimonials about Steve Jobs, as there should be. I wanted to say here how much he truly did for the worldwide community of people with various disabilities and learning differences. Apple’s ease of use and its features that help all of us, but particularly help people with disabilities was never [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, News, Reading, Writing, and Math, Social Issues and Ideas on Oct 3rd, 2011 14 Comments »
I get angry when I read headlines that either intentionally mislead and inflame people about anything, and in this case dyslexia, or do so out of some form of laziness. There’s been a recent study released that should lead to more kids getting more resources and services and hope. Unfortunately there are some headlines that [...]