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How to Help Your Child Have a Happy Holiday

The holiday season is a time for family togetherness, community, and friendship when we enjoy parties and fun celebrations. Unfortunately, children who struggle with social and behavioral problems can feel lonely and excluded during this happy time.
LD Online
December 2008

Planning for Postsecondary Transition

With the first half of the school year almost complete, I think it's safe to say that everyone (parents, educators, students) is looking forward to some holiday time away from the classroom.  But for students who will be finishing high school in the spring, the next few weeks are likely to be filled with paperwork and planning, meetings with guidance counselors, conversations with college admissions personnel, and hours of online research.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
December 2008

DI good for learning-disabled students

No general instructional model can be recommended for all students. Nonetheless, one can assume that certain general guiding principles for teaching students with learning disabilities do exist and that effective interventions include components that capitalize on these principles.
Pacific Daily News
January 2009

Research Roundup: NCLD Summarizes Findings from National Math Panel Report

The reports look at different ingredients essential to understanding how math is best studied, how math learning happens at different stages of development, and how teachers can be prepared to meet the instructional needs of (all) students.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
January 2009

Culturally Responsive Response to Intervention (RTI)

The NRCLD defines Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI) as: an assessment and intervention process for systematically monitoring student progress and making decisions about the need for instructional modifications or increasingly intensified services using progress monitoring data. Providing RTI services in communities where the student body is diverse can create challenges but in schools where response to intervention models are practiced, teachers and other practitioners are collaborating in amazing ways to make the menu of learning options in the classroom as diverse as the student population.
The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)
November 2008

Brain Researchers Find New Insights into Learning Disabilities

A new study in the latest issue of Cell has revealed the molecular and cellular underpinnings of one of the most common, single gene causes for learning disability in humans. The findings made in learning disabled mice offer new insight into what happens in the brain when we learn and remember. While most previous studies have focused on the role of brain cells that excite other brain cells in the process of learning, the current results suggest that inhibitory neurons and a careful balance between excitatory and inhibitory signals may be just as essential, according to the researchers.
Science Daily
November 2008

Reading Rockets Celebrates Learning Disabilities (LD) Awareness Month

October is Learning Disabilities (LD) Awareness Month. Join the Reading Rockets community in learning more about LD. Share one of their inspirational stories about parents and teachers who made a difference in the life of a child and find out how you can help a struggling reader.
Reading Rockets
October 2008


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