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Johnstown, Valley Take Top Honors at Quiz Bowl
Newark Advocate (OH)
The Rick DeMuth Memorial Quiz Bowl, sponsored by the Educational Service Center, gives special-education students the chance to show off their knowledge. "(These kids) a lot of times don't get the same recognition as a star athlete," said Janet Watterman, director of special education at the ESC. Teams competed in one of two divisions: cognitive disability and specific learning disability.
Reading Eagle (PA)
Nelson Lauver, whose dyslexia wasn't discovered until he was an adult, has overcome rough times early in his life to become a motivational speaker and radio host.
Children's Book Author Visits Auburn School
Opelika-Auburn News (AL)
Children's author Michael Finklea told elementary students, "I experienced a lot of struggles in school and actually didn't like to write at one point." Finklea suffered with ADD (attention deficit disorder) growing up. "Now that I'm writing and have been published, I want these kids to remember that they shouldn't say they don't like something until they've actually tried it."
Laurier's Accessible Learning Centre Makes a Difference
Exchange Morning Post (Canada)
Wilfrid Laurier University's Accessible Learning Centre works with students with disabilities ranging from the visible to invisible. "We're looking at building capacity ..." says ALC manager Gwen Page, "based on understanding a student's unique barriers to develop a plan that helps them to navigate and manage what's in front of them."
The Creative Energy Behind ADHD
The Wall Street Journal
As a mother of two children with ADHD, The Wall Street Journal's Work and Family reporter Sue Shellenbarger wonders, "How can you tell whether all that splintered energy will help your own child succeed? And how can you help channel all that mental voltage productively?" She asked a few famous ADHD sufferers and their parents for answers, including the founder of JetBlue airlines, the founder of Kinko's, and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" host Ty Pennington. Ty's mother, Yvonne, says that while many viewers get emotional watching her son deliver remodeled homes to deserving families, she cries for different reasons. After being told years ago that her unruly son was the worst kid in his school, she says, "my tears come from the joy, at how far he has come."
The Vindicator (OH)
Kerra Loomis of Canfield spends two hours a week at the Masonic Temple with her tutor, Delta Stoner, learning how to read better. When Kerra was about 3 years old, her mother Kathy noticed she was struggling with her ABCs. For Kerra, reciting her ABCs from memory was not a problem, but looking at the letters on a flash card and saying them was. The problem was later diagnosed as dyslexia, a language-based disorder affecting approximately 10 percent of the population to varying degrees. The tutoring, though, has made a difference for Kerra. According to Kathy, her daughter went from being below her grade level in reading to being at grade level today. And Kerra? "I'm more confident in reading. It's helped me a lot," she says.
Problems Plague Inmates' Education
Columbus Dispatch (OH)
Learning-disabled students identified by the Ohio's juvenile prisons system make up nearly half of all juvenile-prison inmates. But a recently completed federal investigation found that screenings for disabilities are so shoddy that problems are routinely overlooked and many inmates don't get the education they should.
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