Author Archives: LD Blog

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. Over on The Rundown, a blog affiliated with the US PBS show The Newshour, Jason Kane has an entry focused on Learning Disabilities as a prelude to segments to appear on the TV … Continue reading →

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. Did you know that failing to address bullying can be the cause of schools having to pay for private placement of students with Learning Disabilities? Bullying has justified parents’ decisions to move their … Continue reading →

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. Mildred Hope Fisher Wood, long-time teacher and advocate for Learning Disabilities, was inducted into the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women Hall of Fame 27 August 2011. Ms. Wood, who began teaching … Continue reading →

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. Writing for the Los Angeles (CA, US) Times, Matt Stevens leads an extended story about the importance of sports in society with a section on Julius English, a 39-year-old behavior therapist who couldn’t … Continue reading →

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQp8N7P8zsULanguage Warning!Do not click play if the words n- - - - orf- - - - offend you. As the beginning of school approaches, many schools will be considering what to do about bullying, a problem the plagues many … Continue reading →

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. The misrepresentation of Learning Disabilities as a generic or catch-all term continues. I just stumbled upon another instance of it. www.azvice.com 602-471-0346 Kim Yamamoto Arizona Advocates fights for Arizona school rights for children … Continue reading →

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. The National Center on Learning Disabilities (NCLD), a US advocacy organization, has released its annual report about its views of the policy situation for individuals with Learning Disabilities. NCLD calls the report The … Continue reading →

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. Have you been hearing a lot about subtypes of LD lately? Perhaps it’s just that I’ve been especially alert to it, but it seems I’ve heard a lot of mentions about subtypes of … Continue reading →

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. I’ve seen a couple of messages recently in which inclusion or mainstreaming has been lamented. One of them appeared on Bignity, the new group blog devoted to students with disabilities. In it Jaime … Continue reading →

From LD Blog over on LD Blog. In a puzzling case of a student who appears to have had problems throughout the primary grades and did not get help until fourth grade, Liz Ditz asks the question, How Often Does … Continue reading →