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 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 [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Personal Stories on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
I met this guy Gilles today on the Big Island of Hawaii. I bought some of his art work and we spoke a little while. He’s a quadriplegic whose face seemed to beam. Talk about resilience and working through barriers, wow. Stricken with CP, and without use of arms or legs, he paints with another [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics on Apr 4th, 2011 No Comments »
There’s a badly needed discussion going on about how in the US, we have a “herd mentality” when it comes to going to college straight from high school.
Posted in Discussion Topics, News on Feb 20th, 2011 4 Comments »
Should Teachers Be Allowed to Hate Blog About Their Students? Good has an interesting post about a teacher who posted her opinions about her students on her blog. Natalie Munroe, a 30-year-old Philadelphia-area high school English teacher took her extremely candid commentary about students to her public blog—and of course a student discovered it. Munroe [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics on Jun 26th, 2008 8 Comments »
LD Resources has a new look and some of you who have been following it for a while may need to take a moment and poke around to get oriented. Most of the work in this new look went into typography and readability and we hope you find things easier to read, especially comment threads. [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics on Jan 8th, 2006 10 Comments »
When should a parent change their child’s school? What are the warning signs that the school isn’t working out, how long do they ask their child to stick it out, and what is the process once they decide? What if the child likes the school and doesn’t want to move? What are the problems associated [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics on Jun 18th, 2005 24 Comments »
We live in a society that is obsessed with SAT test scores and getting into “name” colleges. Some parents are having their kids evaluated for LD so that they can get accommodations like extra time on the SAT even though the kids with no history of learning disabilities. The thinking is that this will produce [...]
Posted in Discussion Topics on May 26th, 2005 No Comments »
If you are LD and work in a job setting that supports you without singling you out and making you feel bad, can you describe the situation? If you are LD and work in a job setting that supports you, can you describe the situation? If you are an employer and hire people with LD, [...]