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30 September 2008
Homework & Your ADHD/LD Child
I have just completed a two-part story about homework and your ADHD/LD child on the health site Trusera. Part one details general views about the demands of homework currently placed on...
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Poll 2 on RtI and LD
Here’s an announcement of the second in the series of polls to assess readers’ perspectives on response to intervention or response to instruction (RtI) and Learning Disabilities. RtI (which was expressly permitted in the US Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), is commonly considered to have multiple tiers of intensity with careful monitoring of students’ progress [...]
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Input opportunity
Courtesy of the ever-alert Liz Ditz, here’s an opportunity for US parents and others to emphasize issues in services for individuals with Autism and their families (e.g., research on evidence-based practices).
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On September 15, 2008, members of the Services Subcommittee will meet to review all public comments submitted to date, and will present [...]
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29 September 2008
28 September 2008
Six Proven Classroom Accommodations for ADHD and LD Students
According to an article on AdditudeMag.com, the following six accommodations are most effective for ADHD and/or LD children:
Seating the student near the teacher and away from doors and windows....
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27 September 2008
Virginia Tech Player Succeeds in Spite of His Learning Disability
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Since I live right in the midst of Hokie Country, I thought it only fitting to share this story...
Stephan Virgil, starting cornerback for Virginia Tech, was diagnosed...
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ADHD Related Videos on YouTube
Johnson & Johnson recently created a channel on YouTube featuring videos about various health conditions. One of the series of videos is about ADHD. So far they only have three videos posted, but...
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26 September 2008
ADHD & LD Resource Blog 2008-09-26 22:06:00
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week is Oct. 5 - 11, 2008. It is sponsored by PACER Center’s National Center for Bullying Prevention and cosponsored by the American Federation for Teachers,...
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25 September 2008
Cleaning up
I discovered that I had mistaken paths for some of the documents in the “Documents” section of EBD Blog, and I’ve corrected them. So, if you’re interested in the contents of the data base on placement literature, those PDFs can now be downloaded correctly. Sorry for the problems.
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24 September 2008
23 September 2008
The Lighter Side of ADHD
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Literacy donations
I’ve known about the Literacy Site for a long time, but never thought to link to it from LD Blog until yesterday. If you’ve been around the Internet since it’s first 5 years or so, you probably remember the sound that echoed when the Hunger Site went live. I can remember the desk and the [...]
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21 September 2008
Virginia insurance legislation
Last December, Delegates Robert Marshall and colleagues of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia (US) introduced a bill that would require health insurance companies to pay costs of habilitative services for children and youths. A potential effect of the legislation is that families of children with Autism would be able to receive support for [...]
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Admitting Parental Mistakes & Apologizing for Them
I'm sorry...... those two tiny little words carry an enormous amount of weight and for some reason are incredibly hard to say for some parents.
After all, we are human. It is inevitable that we're...
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