Monthly Archives: September 2007

It was heartening (sort of like a little kid getting a pat on the head) to see that Instructivist caught the same story debunking learning styles from Great Britain that LD Blog covered recently. Wooohoo!
Instructivist’s coverage (but check the comments). (Link to a list of our earlier posts on this belt-level approach that’s based [...] Continue reading →

KidsHealth, which is supported by Nemours Foundation, provides a very wide range of resources about child health. There are multiple articles aimed at children and youths with Learning Disabilities. Although they may be relatively superficial, they are written in a readable way and reasonably accurate.
Here’re links for entries for kids about learning problems and [...] Continue reading →

The Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) will hold it’s annual conference in just a few weeks. Here’s the scoop about it.
Hello from the Council for Learning Disabilities! We are busy preparing for our 29th International Conference on Learning Disabilities to be held at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel (Myrtle Beach, SC) from [...] Continue reading →

Teachers: Learn about evidence-based practices!
Join more than 20 renowned presenters for the annual fall conference of the Division for Learning Disabilities. Steve Graham, Karen Harris, Margo Mastropieri and Tom Scruggs, Rollanda O’Connor, Susan Osborne, Mitch Yell, and many others will hold workshops on teaching methods and other topics relevant for those who work directly [...] Continue reading →

In a study that received some national press coverage, Professor Lee Kern and colleagues reported the results of a study designed to assess the benefits of (a) parent education aimed at teaching parents how to tailor behavior management procedures to the needs of individual children with ADHD in comparison to (b) parent education that addressed [...] Continue reading →

If you live in my neighborhood (Charlottesville, VA, US), you or your child can participate in a project that will allow you to obtain scores from a battery of cognitive tests. My colleauge (and friend), Ron Reeve teaches a course that requires his graduate students to practice giving and interpreting widely used tests of cognitive [...] Continue reading →

ABC.net—the Australian Broadcasting Corporation—reported that local politicians are discussing the need for additional specialists to help students with Learning Disabilities.
The Opposition’s education spokeswoman, Sue Napier, is calling on the State Government to fund more specialist staff to help school students with learning disabilities.
Ms Napier says a lack of specialists such as speech pathologists in [...] Continue reading →

What happens when a child with Autism grows up? In “Raising Adam,” Charlene Arsenault explores this issue by examining the case of Adam Davis and his family. Ms. Arsenault’s article, which appeared in the Worchester Magazine (published by Worcehster State College, MA, US) 09 August 2007, has a good combination … Continue reading →

On US National Public Radio’s Morning Edition Wednesday 15 August 2007, Larry Abramson provided a glimpse into some current efforts to promote education for students with Autism. He describes progress made by a boy with Autism and effort to disseminate the behaviorally based educational methods that helped him. Here’s a … Continue reading →

Roy Kerry, the physician who administered a chelation therapy to the child Tariq Nadama shortly before the 5-year-old boy died, surrendered to police 23 August 2007 in Pittsburgh (PA, US). Dr. Kerry was charged with involutary manslaughter and is being sued by the boy’s parents. Here is a snippet from … Continue reading →