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 Colleges, LD Support Organizations, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, News on Sep 14th, 2011 2 Comments »
youtu.be/TXStEuO5iQg Jeremy Snyder and Julie Platt, students at Wesleyan University, are starting a university chapter of Project Eye-to-Eye, a national mentoring project for children with learning disabilities. In this article from the Wesleyan Argus, the students describe their start-up process this summer and the goals of Eye-to-Eye. They’re looking for about a dozen high caliber […]
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 LD Support Organizations on Mar 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Offering resources and services for dyslexia.
Posted in Computers and Software, LD Support Organizations, Technology Issues and Ideas on Mar 10th, 2011 13 Comments »
Recordings For the Blind and Dyslexic, which has the largest collection of digitized textbooks and literature (64,000 titles) in the world, finally will make that available through iTunes. I, along with many others, have been waiting for this for a while. I hope the app (which is selling for $19.95) will be worth the wait. […]