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MIT News
Brain-imaging study suggests that reading difficulties are the same regardless of overall intelligence — and that more children could benefit from support in school.
Boston Globe
Johanny Hernandez is alone among her Latino relatives and friends to have a child diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Growing up in the Dominican Republic, the 30-year-old mother of four had never heard of this condition - until her son's kindergarten teacher suggested that he be evaluated. Many of her friends seemed skeptical about ADHD, insisting that her son was just very active, sometimes mischievous, but not "loco," the Spanish word for crazy. Still, her son's classroom behavior has improved since he started therapy and taking ADHD medication, and Hernandez tries to block out what she hears from others.
Shortage of Special Education Teachers Includes Their Teachers
On Special Education Blog, Education Week
School districts often find themselves short of special education teachers, even as they lay off other educators. The Special Education Faculty Needs Assessment project found that part of the shortage is because of an ongoing dearth of special education faculty that may grow worse in the near future.
Opinion: Help Deal with Learning Disabilities
The Courier-Journal (KY)
Understand that students with learning disabilities are bright. They possess average to above average intelligence. It is important that their teachers and parents honor them with high expectations for academic and personal success.
Family Works: Identifying a Learning Disability
Fox 25/MyFoxBoston.com
It's the beginning of a new school year and some parents may be noticing issues with their children for the first time. Perhaps they are struggling with homework or suddenly don't want to go to school. These and other warning signs could indicate a learning disability.
ESEA Proposals, NCLB Waivers Trouble Special Ed. Advocates
Education Week
On Special Education Blog: Proposed changes by some Republican senators to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, now called No Child Left Behind, could push more children with disabilities away from taking the same kinds of tests as their classmates. That could limit how many students with special needs are included when schools and districts are held accountable for their students' progress, the National Center on Learning Disabilities told several senators in a letter this week.
How ADHD Children Can Control Emotions
ADDitude
When children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) practice controlling their emotions and impulsive outbursts, they will be healthier and happier at school and home.
The Unappreciated Benefits of Dyslexia
Wired Science
Normally dyslexia is considered a handicap: a mental deficiency that makes reading, long-division and remembering whether letters and numbers face left or right difficult. Challenging this view, learning disabilities experts Brock and Fernette Eide argue that dyslexia is an alternative way brains can be wired — one with many advantages.
Playing in the Grass May Ease ADHD
My Health News Daily
Kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who regularly play outside in settings with lots of green, such as grassy open fields and parks, have milder ADHD symptoms than children who play indoors or at playgrounds, a new study shows. Researchers measured the effects of 49 common after-school and weekend activities the ADHD symptoms of more than 400 children, and found an association between playing in green outdoor settings daily or several times a week and milder ADHD symptoms.
Adapting to the iPad, Called Education's 'Equalizer'
USA Today
There are now about 40,000 educational applications for the iPad, Apple reports, and districts that launched pilot programs last school year now are stepping up their iPad use for special-needs students after seeing results. For example, in Zeeland, Mich., students are starting the school year with 3,100 new iPads, courtesy of a $5.3 million bond issue that will include $1.5million for the tablets, says superintendent David Barry. According to Barry, video can be used to practice social skills, speech recognition aids students who have writing difficulties, and the touch screen makes use easy for children who have dexterity problems.
The Side Effects of Parenting ADD/ADHD Children
ADDitude Magazine
In this blog for ADDitude magazine, mother Kay Marner writes, "Powerlessness. Lack of control. Those are exactly the enemies I fight against daily as I raise my daughter, Natalie, who has ADD/ADHD. I feel powerless over the messes she makes. I feel powerless over her moods and her reactions to stressors. I can't make her follow my directions the first time I give them. I can't make her challenges go away."
Henry Winkler Honored for Helping Dyslexic Children in UK
The Guardian (UK)
Happy Days star Henry Winkler has been named "Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" by the Queen of England for his work on dyslexia in the U.K. The actor and director, who played the Fonz in the classic U.S. sitcom, said it was "humbling" to receive the honor, awarded at the British embassy in Washington DC. Having been diagnosed with dyslexia as an adult, Winkler has toured schools in the UK over the last two years to talk about the learning difficulty.
ADHD Doubles the Risk of Injury in Grade-School Kids
Consumer Reports
Injuries kill more 11-year-olds in the U.S. than any other cause, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) almost doubles the risk of serious injury in children that age, according to a study released yesterday in Academic Pediatrics. Researchers collected data on 4,754 fifth-graders in Birmingham, Ala., Houston, and Los Angeles. They found that the risk of serious injury-including broken bones, sprains, strains, and cuts and bruises-increased as the children's ADHD symptoms intensified.
Prize-Winning Poet: Discovering 'My Dyslexia' At 58
National Public Radio
As a child, Philip Schultz didn't understand why he couldn't learn. He was held back twice and both his classmates and teachers ignored him. When he revealed that he wanted to be a writer, he was ridiculed. Schultz went on to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. But it wasn't until his young son was diagnosed with dyslexia that Schultz, then 58, had a name for the disorder that had plagued him his entire life.
For Love of the Games: Examples of Why Sports Matters
Los Angeles Times
Julius English works as a behavior therapist for children with special needs and, over the years, has developed a magical touch. The 39-year-old has a learning disability, but basketball has helped him push his limits. That's one reason English uses the game in his work: He teaches basketball to his new students and spends his weekends playing with former ones as a way to reconnect. The game means a lot to English because his life hasn't always been this fulfilling.
Rules Finally Issued on Infants, Toddlers with Disabilities
On Special Education Blog, Education Week
Six years after the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was renewed, the U.S. Department of Education today finalized regulations that address how to work with infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
SchoolBook Blog, New York Times
I've spent more than 20 consecutive Augusts doing the same thing: getting ready to go back to school. I've always felt a mixture of apprehension and excitement, for many years as a student, and now for my fifth year as a teacher.
Louisiana Native Dedicated to Fighting Dyslexia Head On
Houma Today (LA)
Local educator Michelle Potter said it was her concerns as a parent that prompted her to open a Dyslexia Institutes of America site in her Gibson, Louisiana home. "Having a child who is severely dyslexic bothered me," Potter said. "Being an educator for 15 years you want to know how to help him, but it's hard to because someone with dyslexia has a brain that works in a different way than others."
Feds Loosen Rules on Cutting Special Ed. Spending
Education Week
School districts that want to reduce special education spending from one year to the next without restoring what was cut now have the blessing of the U.S. Department of Education.
Massachusetts Special Needs Agencies Faulted
Boston Globe
More than two decades of failed oversight have allowed the state's special education collaboratives to misspend millions of taxpayer dollars, according to the Massachusetts auditor's office, which has found a pattern of excessive salaries, conflicts of interest, and possible pension law violations at six of the 30 publicly funded agencies.
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