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Caine’s Arcade and The Imagination Foundation 23 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
The mission of the Imagination Foundation is to find, foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in children around the world to raise a new generation of innovators and problem solvers who have ...
Meet Jack, my friend and former student 22 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
Recently, the National Center for Learning Disabilities website published an interview with new high school freshman, Jack. NCLD interviews Jack, who is dyslexic, as a real success story. And while th...
Visit a Third World Country to Improve Your Reading 9 Aug 2013 | 04:20 am
Photo courtesy of University of Vermont I think Steve Jobs, who famously did not go to Stanford (nor actually complete coursework at Reed College where he enrolled) hit on some key ideas concerning i...
“You’re Never Too Old to Have a Happy Childhood.” 30 Jul 2013 | 04:30 am
A few weeks ago my mom passed away and I haven’t felt much like writing or blogging. However that’s changed now. I want to connect the dots from something she emphasized to me a while back, and the ...
Temple Grandin Sees Autism’s Positive Side 20 Jun 2013 | 06:33 am
Many of you have heard of Temple Grandin. She’s a professor at Colorado State University, known for her ability to think in pictures in similar way, she says, to animals. She gained initial recognitio...
Again: Vision and Dyslexia, Unrelated 14 Jun 2013 | 08:56 pm
Vision and Dyslexia, Unrelated Here’s another study, based on pretty sophisticated brain imaging that shows that visual system processing and dyslexia are not linked. While there is little debate that...
Teaching Reading is Harder than Math? 30 May 2013 | 04:24 pm
In Raising Scores, 1 2 3 Is Easier Than A B C Given that this article looks at the performance of low income students, I’m sure this is a multi-faceted issue, but it seems to be more evidence that tea...
Kids’ Hilarious First Reactions to Food Caught on Camera 13 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
Kids’ Hilarious First Reactions to Food Caught on Camera Had to post this one. Great facial, muscular reactions by little kids. I must admit I had a pretty similar reaction to Vegemite the first (and ...
Art Competition for Children and Adults with LD 10 May 2013 | 02:46 am
Art Competition for People with Learning Disabilities The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) is calling for paintings, drawings, poems, songs, animations, and more that portray the stren...
Arkansas Governor Signs Dyslexia Bill into Law 7 May 2013 | 06:48 am
Citizens celebrate ‘Dyslexia Bill’ New Dyslexia Bill signed into law in Arkansas. Good. And somehow, as handfuls of state legislatures have already passed or are considering passage of similar bills t...
