Posted in LD Support Sites on Oct 7th, 2011 No Comments »
An interesting and pretty thorough article from US News and World Report, Colleges Step Up to Meet Dyslexia Challenge, which addresses a recent meeting at Stanford University, of 45 college admission deans on the different aspects of the admissions process and levels of support once in college, for students with documented learning disabilities. Interestingly, given [...]
Posted in Computers and Software, Education Issues and Ideas, LD Support Sites, Technology Issues and Ideas on Aug 9th, 2011 No Comments »
New Link for Disability support: High Speed Disability Access Guide for various disabilities.
Posted in LD Support Sites on Aug 1st, 2011 No Comments »
This article from the NYTimes.com is another slant on the recent MIT Study about the difficulty (some) people with dyslexia have when trying to distinguish tonal aspects of different voices. In the Times article, emphasis is given to relating this new study to what we already know about the phonological difficulties people with dyslexia have [...]
Posted in LD Support Sites on Jul 11th, 2011 4 Comments »
Well, not that there aren’t enough reasons already not to smoke and not to smoke around kids. Learning Disabilities and Second-Hand Smoke This is one of those studies that isn’t air tight but does corroborate other indicators and point towards more studies to see whether causation exists.
Posted in LD Support Sites on Jun 28th, 2011 10 Comments »
Why and How Asperger Syndrome Will Disappear With the American Psychiatric Association’s new Diagnostic Manual (DSM-5) due to come out sometime this year, the diagnostic term Asperger’s Syndrome will begin to disappear. In an attempt to streamline the umbrella term of Autism Spectrum Disorder, the discrete subcategory term of Asperger’s will no longer exist, except [...]
Posted in LD Support Sites on Jun 28th, 2011 No Comments »
This amazing woman, Lillian Davis, has been volunteering at the International Dyslexia Association in Towson, MD, for over 20 years.
Posted in LD Support Sites on Jun 22nd, 2011 10 Comments »
Do you remember when Susan Boyle won the “Britain’s Got Talent” competition in 2009? The media focused on the surprise of her beautiful voice. It came out of a 47 year old, unemployed woman who did not meet cultural appearance standards. The video of her tape went viral. Her video inspired me for the same [...]
Posted in LD Support Sites on Jun 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Now in its 15th year of helping individuals of any age with learning disabilities go on and succeed in school and life, The Lee Pesky Learning Center is located in Boise, Idaho and offices in Caldwell, Hailey, and Ketchum.
Posted in LD Support Sites on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Photo by Rebecca Reid This article from the London Evening Standard, tells the story of a really wealthy and quite successful London business man, Andreas Panayioto. It’s quite fascinating, and not primarily because of his wealth. Among other things, he talks about memorizing the shapes of whole words to help him cope. He describes how [...]
Posted in LD Support Sites on Apr 21st, 2011 No Comments »
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Posted in LD Support Sites on Mar 2nd, 2011 4 Comments »
Richard Wanderman: As I (Sanford) assume ownership of LD Resources, I want to speak a bit about Richard Wanderman, the founder. To say I have tremendous appreciation and respect for Richard for what he created here at LD Resources is an understatement. I’ve known Richard since about 1994 when I was in private practice in [...]
Posted in LD Support Sites, News on Feb 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
The LD Resources web site has been providing information for people with learning disabilities and people who work with people with learning disabilities since 1995. It started as a place for Richard Wanderman (me) to share handouts with people in digital form and since then has grown to include numerous of articles by me and [...]