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70My Child Gets F's - Learning Disability or Something Else?
My son liked school, I thought, but around the eighth grade he started getting bad grades. He also started noticing girls, and I thought this was probably part of the problem. By the second semester I got a...
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67Autism: Getting an Early Diagnosis for Infants and Toddlers
1 in 100 children age 8 and up are diagnosed with autism. This number is significantly higher than a 2007 study of 1 in 159 children. But… your child is not at greater risk today. The numbers rose...
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78Educating The ADHD Child
ADHD is an affliction that affects 9% of American children to varying degrees. The letters stand for "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder" and it is characterized by an inability to pay attention and...
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55How my non-verbal learning disability (NLD) affects me in the classroom
In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't been a *student* in the classroom for a number of years. And, in an ironically astute bit of self-control, I am going to resist the second impulse I had to...
0 comments41From the Outside, Looking In - Way In
I do not merely feel like an outsider. I am an outsider. Well, to put it more literally, and alas, ironically, I am an "insider". This makes me rather different than the "top of the bell-curve" norm, as...
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66Bad Behavior or Sensory Integration Issues?
I recorded every episode of Super Nanny, read countless parenting books, took Love and Logic parenting classes, sought the advice of friends, daycare staff, and family, and despite my efforts, I still had a...
5 comments52Understanding Literal Thinkers, and How to be Understood By Them
Anal, hair-splitters, obnoxious, spiteful: we literal folk have heard all those descriptors and then some. Most people adapt to the nuances and idomatic communication of their various social groups, and...
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63An Assistive Learning Tool: Read & Write (V9) GOLD
One of my classes is an inclusion class. Regular students make up half of the population and the other half are English Language Learners (ELL) and Learning Support (LS) students. Therefore, I am interested...
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55A Guide for Parents with Learning Challenged Children
I am the parent of a dyslexic daughter. My child problems started in the 5th grade . Up until then she was did fairly well in school. None of her teacher had problems with her. She was never good at reading...
0 comments55Understanding Adults who have Nonverbal Learning Disability
Don't You Call ME a fake! I am hurting. Throughout my life, I have had to deal with obstacles others have not. I have had to negotiate a rather foreign world filled with people who speak the visual...
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