News for the Special Education Community
by Sobiya N. Moghul – According to experts, dyslexia often goes undetected as parents presume their child is a slow learner or is not putting enough effort into studies. But in reality, dyslexia is a neuro development disorder that can be corrected with the right help and guidance. What is dyslexia? According to experts, learning [...]
by Lauran Neergaard – We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as they begin first grade seems to play a big role in how well they do everyday calculations later [...]
by Sally Capone – What is it like to have a learning disability? The students in teacher Julia Nicolette’s fifth grade class at Madison’s Kings Road School received a first-hand lesson about dyslexia and other disorders during a presentation by Beth Fissel, creator of Project aMaze. Fissel, who has been giving the presentation for four [...]
by Dwain Hebda – An Arkansas Senate bill proposing early childhood testing for learning disabilities is getting an overhaul, thanks to the efforts of a determined young Catholic. Mary Katherine Keller, a member of the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Little Rock, is lending her considerable enthusiasm and expertise to SB33, sponsored by Sen. Joyce [...]
by Brittney Johnson – More people are voicing concern about a bill that could impact the way thousands of students are educated. Families are pushing for the Senate Bill 33, known as the “Dyslexia Bill”, but a teenager with a similar learning disability is pushing for more to be done. Mary Katherine Keller, a recent [...]
by Marina Thomas – What are learning disabilities? Children with learning disabilities are usually significantly underachieving, especially in reading and maths, despite an apparent ‘normal’ level of intelligence. Sometimes they can develop strong coping strategies so they are not easy to spot. Learning disabilities are found in the significant gap between a person’s intelligence and the skills a child [...]
by Jamie Farniok – I receive phone calls from many parents wondering if their children may be dyslexic so I thought I would blog a little about what exactly that means. Many people believe that a person with dyslexia sees things backward and that is why some children write certain letters backward. I had a [...]
Read on for a (linked) list of the best-known scholarships for students with learning disabilities (LD). by Scholarship America – Getting into, paying for, and navigating through college is rarely easy. For students who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities (LD), that struggle can take on even more dimensions. Learning-related issues such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, [...]
by Amanda Driscoll – Sure, IEPs are important for kids with attention deficit. But what’s even more helpful to start the school year right? Open communication with my children’s teachers. As a mom to two children with ADHD, I waver between the utter excitement that they will be “entertained” for six hours of the day, [...]
by Bill Lohmann – As a kid, Joe Oley didn’t exactly shine as a student. He read poorly, worked slowly and struggled mightily. He got in trouble for forging his parents’ signatures on detention slips and twice appeared before his school’s disciplinary board. And this was all by the seventh grade. ”I was failing out of [...]
