11 November 2007
LD in Philippines
It appears that some governments in the Philippines might be a bit ahead of efforts to help children with Learning Disabilities tha governments elsewhere in the world, including the US. Celso Lobregat, mayor of the city of Zamboanga, is reported to support of early identification, as reported in an article entitled “Zambo City mayor vows [...]
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9 November 2007
University of Iowa: Assistant Professor Position
Pros,
Please see the below assistant professor opening at the University of
Iowa in Iowa City. There are many exciting teaching and research
opportunities at UI including project REACH
(http://www.education.uiowa.edu/reach/), a two-year, comprehensive,
campus-based, certificate program for students with multiple learning
and cognitive disabilities.
Iowa City is a great place to live and has received ...
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Educationally Challenged
Dyslexia, learning disability, learning challenge, whatever you want to call it... should not be the death nell of person's potential! Yet, today more than ever the failure of schools to provide appropriate instruction for kids with LD has devastating results. Literacy skills are critical for success today. We need to stop thinking of this as a problem with the learner, and realize that the problem exists because we are not delivering instruction at the intensity and duration that is needed. Teachers need better training to be able to effectively help these students. The key word is effectively. Today, teachers of at least elementary grades need a background in phonology and linguistics, and they need to be experts in their own language.
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8 November 2007
Autism and driver?s ed
Over on Parents Grove, a blog associated with the Forest City Behavior & Development site, Pam Vivian has an entry about drivers' education for individuals who have Autism. When one knows that Ms. Vivian is the parent and the individual in question is her son and when one throws in ...
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Tester
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It’s nothing too polished yet, just a grid-based concept illustrating the main content components we’ll need to tease out of Wordpress: “Lead Story”, “Last Three Features”, “News”, “Contributors” and so on. How do we tie all this together on one page? Let’s start at the top and explore each module step by step:
6 November 2007
Teaching changes minds
The University of Washington group studying dyslexia reported results from yet another study indicating that instruction reprograms neural activity.
Using new software developed to investigate how the brains of dyslexic children are organized, University of Washington researchers have found that key areas for language and working memory involved in reading are connected differently in dyslexics [...]
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5 November 2007
Adolescent psych
Altough I've only recently skimmed it, Erica Westly has a blog that appears to have some relevant content. Readers might wish to take a peek at Adolescent Psych. I saw content on many topics that overlap with those we cover here at EBD Blog.
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4 November 2007
DLD dissertation award
Over on Spedpro, Margo Mastropieri announced the annual competition for an award recognizing research on Learning Disabilities conducted by a doctoral student. Here’s a snippet:
The Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) within the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) announces its annual competition for outstanding doctoral-level research in the field of learning disabilities. The purposes of [...]
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Disciplinary policy: Proactive problem-solving
According to a story in the Richmond (VA, US) Times-Dispatch, the Richmond Public Schools have collaborated with a statewide legal-aid group called JustChildren to address problems arising when discipline rules conflict with the right to an education under US and VA laws that is due to students with disabilities. In ...
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2 November 2007
C’ville RTI workshop
Some of my colleagues are conducting a workshop on Response to Intervention (RTI). Here's the announcement.
Response to Intervention (RTI), Learning Disabilities, and You:
How Changes in Special Education Law Impact Diagnosis and Treatment of Students
How the Albemarle County Schools are Approaching These Issues
Friday, November 9, 2007
1:00-3:30 p.m.
Curry School of Education
Ruffner ...
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How low is your state’s bar?
Time graphic
To what extent does a US state's high-stakes test correspond with a consistent standard assessment? Using data from the Education Trust and the Colorado (US) Department of Education Time magazine's Feilding Cage (with help from Jackson Dykman) created one of those nifty Flashy things that provides an interactive means ...
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Bridging the Gap ‘07
Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice 2007, the annual conference of the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD), is scheduled for next week in San Antonio (TX, US). There are many sessions about important topics (assessment, reading, written expression, etc.), all of which are presented in workshop format led by people widely respected as [...]
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Teacher’s LD advocacy recognized
An article from the Colorado Springs (CO, US) Gazette describes an award given to a teacher for helping students with Learning Disabilities develop self-advocacy skills. Under the headline “D-12 teacher an ‘American Star’: Award honors creation of program for learning-disabled teens,” Shari Chaney Griffen reported that Alan Pocock, a teacher in a Colorado Springs high [...]
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Autism and driver’s ed
Over on Parents Grove, a blog associated with the Forest City Behavior & Development site, Pam Vivian has an entry about drivers' education for individuals who have Autism. When one knows that Ms. Vivian is the parent and the individual in question is her son and when one throws in ...
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Psych Today on “A Man’s Shelf Life”
In the September-October issue, Psychology Today magazine carried coverage of the father's-age issue. Under the headline of "A Man's Shelf Life," Mark Teich interprets recent developments for a general audience.
"Everybody was familiar with the concept of women's biological clock, but when we introduced 'male' to the equation, the reaction was ...
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Thank you to Azusa Pacific University!
I have to say thank you to Azusa Pacific University! It is an excellent school with rigorous academic standards. I learned so much there. I just graduated from there (HD 92) with a degree in Human Development with an emphasis in English. It was a very intense program, but it was sooooo worth it. The one thing that I hated in the beginning, the group presentations,was what ended up helping me. The mastery of it actually help get my job for me.
The group presentations were a little stressful for me because I was worried about other people not pulling their own weight. As it turned out, I didn’t have to worry about it. It only happened once. But, for the presentations, we were given very little instructions (save creativity). We were just instructed to make a creative lesson that would engage the children with visual displays and handouts for everyone. They were so much work, but you know what, I learned so much.
For the last part of my job interview, I had to teach a lesson for my class. I drew on my experience from A.P.U. and hit the ball out the park.
If anyone is reading this and is considering going there. I would suggest that you do. You will not regret it!
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