Posted in Education Issues and Ideas, News on Feb 28th, 2012 No Comments »
Researchers continue to find that exercise and fitter brains are correlated. When testing children, those that engaged in healthy fitness routines performed better on thinking and complex memory tasks. Surprised? Not me. Executive functions, the buzzword for educators thees days, are helped with exercise. Greater fitness= greater hippocampus.
Posted in LD Support Organizations, Technology Issues and Ideas on Feb 22nd, 2012 No Comments »
DECATUR, Ga. — Sign-up for the International Dyslexia Association’s annual seminar on Technology for Adults and Older Teens with Dyslexia at the Decatur Library.
Posted in LD Support Sites on Feb 21st, 2012 No Comments »
The deadline to apply for the 2012 Advocates in Disability Award (ADA) is approaching. The purpose of the ADA Program is to award and encourage a young individual with a disability between the ages of 14 and 26, who has dedicated himself/herself to positively affecting the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families in [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Materials, Low Tech Tools on Feb 21st, 2012 2 Comments »
photo from www.fastcodesign.com From Good.is: Can Better Designed Classroom Furniture Help Students Who Can’t Sit Still? A Dutch architectural company has been trying to help fidgety kids concentrate better with their modular furniture design. Simplistic? Perhaps. Worth considering? Definitely. They’ve designed stylish furniture for a school that is specifically for students with LD and concentration [...]
Posted in LD Support Sites on Feb 17th, 2012 No Comments »
Riverview School is a wonderful and unique school for children with global learning disabilities and often with a somewhat lower cognitive profile than most of the other LD schools, and so, provides an important and supportive school choice for the right student and family. Help us “spread the word”…. Information Session at Riverview April 11, [...]
Posted in LD Support Sites on Feb 10th, 2012 No Comments »
In this video interview, Philip Schultz, talk of the LD world recently, is asked five questions: 1.”You’re a Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Why did you decide to write a book on dyslexia? 2. What has the reaction to your book been like? 3. Can you talk a little about your own struggle with reading? 4. [...]
Posted in Books and Videos, Events and Conferences on Feb 6th, 2012 No Comments »
Philip Schultz, Pulitzer prize winning poet will share his experiences growing up with dyslexia, at Elizabethtown College on February 22nd. I haven’t heard him speak, but have read his book, which pulls no punches when describing the difficulties faced in an unsupportive school environment. His book, My Dyslexia, describes his path to literacy.
Posted in Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, News, Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 5th, 2012 2 Comments »
The Upside of Dyslexia This article from Sunday’s NYTimes, is I think, a continuation of a fascinating argument as to whether the learning disability called dyslexia is also a learning style that has built-in skills and attributes. I’ve heard many times over, some well-argued points against this notion that dyslexia carries its own set of [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas, Events and Conferences, LD Support Professionals, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health on Feb 4th, 2012 No Comments »
The National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) will be holding its national conference in Orlando, Florida next week, February 9th-11th at the World Swan and Dolphin Conference Center. Sanford Shapiro (me) will be presenting next Saturday on the impact of Learning Disabilities on Therapeutic Concerns. The focus of the presentation is to help [...]
Posted in LD Support Organizations, LD Support Sites, News, Personal Stories on Feb 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
. A Dyslexic Wonder This is about Jennifer Smith, a finalist in 2010 for an Ann and Allegra Ford Scholarship, and her story of growth and pain. Terribly and typically teased, she persevered through language training and to the growth of her self-confidence. She enters college in the fall, speaks to students about dyslexia, has [...]
Posted in Events and Conferences on Feb 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
A two day conference focusing on dyslexia education at USM, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It’s titled, The 16th annual DuBard Symposium: Dyslexia and Related Disorders and is taking place at the Thad Cochran Center.
Posted in Colleges, Education Issues and Ideas on Feb 1st, 2012 No Comments »
Recently someone and I had an exchange about the notion of extra time as an accommodation for standardized tests such as the SAT. He brought up some good questions. Here’s one of them and my reply: Him: “Let’s talk about SAT tests. The fact that a neurotypical student benefits from extra time seems to indicate [...]