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The Hard Life of Seymour E. Newton
Ann Bixby Herold

The Hard Life of Seymour E. Newton

Peter does well in third-grade math. But, somehow, in writing and spelling, by the time the letters get from his brain to his paper, they get turned around. His Dad thinks he’s lazy. Peter just wants to get sick and stay home from school. It takes the perseverance of a spider named Seymour to help Peter work to overcome his learning problems.

The Human Side of Dyslexia
Shirley Kurnoff

The Human Side of Dyslexia

This book is about people and about the challenges and rewards of living with dyslexia. The author’s goal is to give the reader encouragement, and to de-emphasize the negativity that comes with a learning difference. The 142 interviews are packed with practical coping strategies that will help you get through your journey with dyslexia.

Mary Ruth Coleman

The Identification of Students Who are Gifted

This digest discusses the identification of students who are gifted, the difficulties in the identification process, appropriate identification practices, and procedures that can help with identification.
Parent and teacher meeting
Lisa Küpper, Jean Kohanek

The IEP Team Members

Parents and teachers as well as other professionals are required by law to be involved in writing a student’s IEP. Find out about the members of an IEP team and the roles they play.

Robert Brooks

The Impact of Teachers: A Story of Indelible Memories and Self-Esteem

In the workshops I offer teachers about fostering student self-esteem, I pose the following questions: “Do you believe you have a long-lasting impact on the lives of your students? Five, ten, twenty years from now, will your students remember you or experiences from your class? And if so, what do you hope they will remember?”

Sandra F. Rief

The Importance of Music, Art

Three- to five-year-olds are exuberant little learners, as they make new discoveries and acquire new skills and competencies every day. As discussed in the section “What Are Learning Styles?” children learn best when they experience through all their senses – hearing, seeing, touching, feeling, moving, smelling.
Young girl with braids writing intently
Louise Spear-Swerling

The Importance of Teaching Handwriting

After a long period of neglect in education, attention to teaching handwriting in the primary grades may finally be returning. This attention can benefit many youngsters, including those with learning disabilities (LDs) involving handwriting, which may accompany reading disabilities, writing disabilities, nonverbal learning disabilities, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The Instant Access Treasure Chest

The Foreign Language Department at Virginia Commonwealth University has developed a treasure chest of valuable information for teaching strategies. Focusing on LD, the site contains many categorized articles useful to teachers in any classroom.
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