In a workshop called “Dare to Dream,” two young men with Asperger’s syndrome and a young woman with dyslexia told their audience of high school students they can persevere if they stay organized, work hard and ask for help when they need it. People with Learning Disabilities of any kind, need a positive view of [...]

This Business Insider photo article, notes fifteen very successful CEO’s who have achieved tremendous success and some breakthrough thinking, in spite of their learning disabilities. Some of them attribute part of their success to their learning disabilities. Does Steve Jobs really have dyslexia? [via Carolyn D. Cowen] More: continued here

Ugh. Haven’t we learned yet? Children are growing up with too much pressure to conform and to achieve in a way that minimizes the need for play, robust and creative physical activity, imaginative thinking and oral language development. Early emphasis on drill and rote memorization of facts has not proven to produce long term results. [...]

If your child with a learning disability is spinning out of control emotionally and behaviorally and you start looking for a therapeutic school or program, how do you go about that? First, if you can, get a current psycho-educational or neuropsychological evaluation. This will help measure and describe the interplay between the current behavioral distress [...]

Do people with dyslexia make better business visionaries? Apparently, one of the themes of the new HBO documentary, “Journey into Dyslexia” is the reported link between dyslexia and successful entrepreneurship. This opens up so many cans of worms to discuss. I’ll weigh in more later. More: continued here

The study mentioned in this article in Bloomberg Business Week, is apparently given some mention and explanation in the new HBO documentary, “Journey Into Dyslexia.”. From the Cass Business School in London, the study draws a link between having dyslexia and business success. I met the author of the study a couple of years ago [...]

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 [...]

Danny Glover has been one of my favorite actors for a while. He speaks about his life experiences and dyslexia as well as how he overcame his feelings of inadequacy. I sometimes have mixed feelings about trotting out the celebrities who have dyslexia. I’m not at all implying that having dyslexia leads to great acting [...]

This is a wonderful article from Good, about the absolute need to help young people and teachers re-imagine education in profoundly different ways, including imagining jobs that don’t yet exist. I’ve always been hopeful (“you might say I’m a dreamer…”) for a time when having learning disabilities is truly seen as “learning differently” and simply [...]

This is a link to Lori Kobelan’s site. It looks like she’s put a lot of time into cateloguing various options for pursuing a Master’s degree in Teaching. More: continued here