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 Education Issues and Ideas, LD Support Professionals, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools, Social Issues and Ideas on Aug 30th, 2011 No Comments »
Yesterday I spoke with LA Talk Radio host Lon Woodbury on his show, “Parent Choices For Struggling Teens.” The show was called “Learning Disabilities or Therapy: You Shouldn’t Have to Choose”. Speaking to the integration of best practices between Learning Disabilities and Therapeutic Intervention, I’m advocating for all the kids in treatment centers, therapeutic boarding [...]
Posted in LD Support Professionals, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
I’ve been on the road a lot the past several months visiting all sorts and sizes of therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers and therapeutic wilderness programs. Primarily, I’ve focused on ones that (by reputation) have some informed sensitivity to the impact of learning disabilities and developmental differences on therapeutic effectiveness issues. Concurrent to my [...]
Posted in Camps and Residential, Discussion Topics, Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on May 14th, 2011 No Comments »
If your child with a learning disability is spinning out of control emotionally and behaviorally and you start looking for a therapeutic school or program, how do you go about that? First, if you can, get a current psycho-educational or neuropsychological evaluation. This will help measure and describe the interplay between the current behavioral distress [...]
Posted in Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Apr 18th, 2011 7 Comments »
I was sitting around a campfire, in the high desert country of southern Utah, miles from creature comforts, listening to a group of teenage boys telling their stories to me and another visiting educational consultant. They were introducing themselves and sharing the reasons why their parents sent them there. “There” was a pretty austere location [...]
Posted in Camps and Residential, K-12 Schools, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Apr 12th, 2011 No Comments »
I’ve had a few kids go to this camp and they really enjoyed it. The camp has lots of activities but also has a remedial component to it as well. It’s the summer program of the
Posted in Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Apr 2nd, 2011 9 Comments »
When I wrote “An Elephant in the LD Room” my intention was to start highlighting four main realities: 1. How hurt, shame, anger. depression and self-abuse can become a part of the lives of children and adults with learning disabilities, 2. As a result of #1, schooling to address the remediation of the learning difficulties [...]
Posted in Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Feb 5th, 2011 12 Comments »
© 2011 Sanford Shapiro Imagine this: You’re six years old, and for the next 10 years or so, a sizable portion of your mental and emotional fuel tank will be used up avoiding humiliation, developing feelings of not being good enough, falling behind in assignments, getting teased, being misunderstood, and struggling way more in basic [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Sep 24th, 2007 6 Comments »
The LD Schools Visit project has always had one primary goal: To make it easier for parents to find the right schools for their children with learning disabilities. By categorizing schools by the learning profile of the students they serve, we think we’ve added another valuable tool for a school search. Clicking on each of [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Mar 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at Trident Academy © 2007 Sanford Shapiro Trident Academy is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina and is just outside of Charleston. Not too bad a spot, right near the bay. Trident is a day school for kids with learning disabilities in grades K-12. Trident was started in 1972 and enrolls up [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Feb 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Centreville School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The Centreville School is a school for kids with language-based learning disabilities and has been around since it’s founding in 1974. It’s located in Centreville, Delaware, which is very close to the border with Pennsylvania. It works with kids from age four through 14 [...]
Posted in Shapiro Looks at K-12 Schools on Jan 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Sanford Shapiro looks at The Wardlaw School © 2007 Sanford Shapiro The Wardlaw School is another school for kids with language-based learning disabilities in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s actually part of the overall organization called The Atlanta Speech School. However, since it is distinct in its profile than the other parts of Atlanta Speech, I’m making [...]