Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jun 20th, 2006 3 Comments »
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic 20 Roszel Rd Princeton NJ 08540 800-221-4792 custserv@rfbd.org www.rfbd.org
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With Sound From Africa, the Phonetic Alphabet Expands
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Dec 13th, 2005 No Comments »
With Sound From Africa, the Phonetic Alphabet Expands: “The International Phonetic Association is amending its official alphabet for the first time in 12 years.” (Via NYT > Science.)
Language is a Virus
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jul 6th, 2005 No Comments »
Language is a Virus is a wonderful collection of linguistic tools for having fun with letters, words, and sentences as well as technique. Lots of good reading on the history of writing technique as well as words of wisdom from great writers.
Flocabulary
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Mar 3rd, 2005 2 Comments »
Flocabulary is a vocabulary building site that embeds new vocabulary words in rap lyrics and allows you to stream or download them to listen (study). The site is crude but it’s getting some attention and there is undoubtedly research somewhere on putting new vocabulary into lyrical form to help it “stick” better. Not sure rap [...]
Creating Young Writers in Resource Rooms
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 28th, 2005 1 Comment »
© Jaena L.H. Smith jlhsmith@aol.com The following techniques were developed to get the best results in creating young writers in a resource room instruction setting. These techniques were developed and refined over a period of nine years while I was an elementary resource teacher in a small school district. They are for students who have [...]
Research on Underlying Neurology of Math Ability
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 28th, 2005 10 Comments »
The New York Times ran a story on gender and hemispheric differences between people who can more easily solve math problems and those who can’t. Mental Abilities: Peering Into a Math Whiz’s Brain In short, people who are good at solving math problems use more of their brains than not: both hemispheres are lighting up [...]
Wilson Language Training
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 27th, 2005 3 Comments »
Wilson Language Training 175 W. Main St. Millbury, MA 01527 800-899-8454 508-865-9644 fax a href=”http://www.wilsonlanguage.com” target=”_blank”>www.wilsonlanguage.com
Handwriting vs. Typing
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 2 Comments »
The weblog collision detection has an interesting entry called: Can you think better when you’re typing?. The comments on this entry are as good or better than the entry itself.
High End Book Scanner
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
4 Digital Books is a high end scanner for turning paper books into digital books. It’s not for end users but for institutions who are digitizing large numbers of books.
Bookshare.org
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 1 Comment »
We’ve had a link to Bookshare on our Links page for a while now but I finally met one of people behind this project while in New York at the New York Branch of the International Dyslexia Association conference there. www.bookshare.org/ Bookshare is a subscription service that does some amazing things that go beyond both [...]
List Making
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Here’s a great way to get started on a piece of writing. Make a list of everything you know about the topic, in any order. Don’t worry about spelling, don’t write sentences, just words and/or short phrases. animals bear panda lion tiger cat
Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Here’s an interesting study of readability of pages useful to anyone who does both desktop publishing or web design: Reading Online Text: A Comparison of Four White Space Layouts.