I met this guy Gilles today on the Big Island of Hawaii. I bought some of his art work and we spoke a little while. He’s a quadriplegic whose face seemed to beam. Talk about resilience and working through barriers, wow. Stricken with CP, and without use of arms or legs, he paints with another [...]
Dale Brown, a well-known speaker and writer on learning disabilities will be speaking on Rockland Internet radio, Tuesday April 26 at 6:25PM EST. Dale Brown speaks on Dan Windheim’s internet radio show about LD, ADA assistance and more. Dale’s been an important contributor on LD Resources. Her bio’s worth reading, as are her articles. Hope [...]
I was sitting around a campfire, in the high desert country of southern Utah, miles from creature comforts, listening to a group of teenage boys telling their stories to me and another visiting educational consultant. They were introducing themselves and sharing the reasons why their parents sent them there. “There” was a pretty austere location [...]
A story on National Public Radio highlighting the increasing number of colleges in the United States that support students with ASD, particularly I would say, those with Asperger’s. This is great to see. There are other colleges besides the ones mentioned that have mentoring and other support services available. [via Richard Wanderman] More: continued here
I’ve had a few kids go to this camp and they really enjoyed it. The camp has lots of activities but also has a remedial component to it as well. It’s the summer program of the More: continued here
This is a short clip from a speech that poet LeDerick Horne, who’s also dyslexic, gave about Project Eye to Eye, a mentoring program for students with learning disabilities. He speaks to the inner and emotional turmoil many students go through. More: continued here
The Prospect School, a new school within the Wooster School (Danbury CT) More: continued here
There’s a badly needed discussion going on about how in the US, we have a “herd mentality” when it comes to going to college straight from high school. More: continued here
When I wrote “An Elephant in the LD Room” my intention was to start highlighting four main realities: 1. How hurt, shame, anger. depression and self-abuse can become a part of the lives of children and adults with learning disabilities, 2. As a result of #1, schooling to address the remediation of the learning difficulties [...]