Posted in LD Support Organizations, News, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Nov 30th, 2011 1 Comment »
Ben Shifrin, Head of The Jemicy School, in Owings Mills, MD, has been inducted into the International Dyslexia Association’s Hall of Fame. Frankly, I had no idea there was such a Hall of Fame. For me, this is another chance to bring recognition to what I’ve always thought of as a great school for kids [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics, News on Nov 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
I haven’t seen or heard of this happening in the northwest, where I live, but this is potentially very concerning for lots of folks, especially if it spreads and gets worse. NPR did a story about this emerging shortage of ADHD meds, characterizing it as being part of a nationwide and increasing shortage of other [...]
Posted in Books and Videos, Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health on Nov 13th, 2011 5 Comments »
Photo by Evgeni Dinev In his book “What the Dog Saw,” based on a collection of his essays and New Yorker articles, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the notion of Puzzles and Mysteries. Gladwell encouraged us to discern whether a problem or challenge to be solved was a puzzle or a mystery. What about kids with learning disabilities? [...]
Posted in Colleges, Computers and Software, Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Materials, Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
wohnai/flickr From Good.is The average community college student in Washington spends about $1,200 per year on textbooks. I know that as a society we’re probably in the infancy of this movement to digitize textbooks and in a variety of ways, bring down the costs of textbooks to students. I don’t understand how they deal with [...]