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AN EVALUATION UNDER I.D.E.A.
There are times when you are quite sure the child they are discussing is not even related to the child the meeti...
Equality, Equity and LRE
When the federal government finally said that the school district could not simply declare that a child "could not be educated" and send them home in 1975 with the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA ),it was the beginning of many new policies in e
...GET YOUR GOALS RIGHT!
The concept of Inference is one of those things that we rarely think about because so much of it is automatic and unconscious. That is also why it is so important to be sure that our students are given the opportunity to actually learn and use inference in the right way. It o...
But What Did You Mean?
In the world of education, when we talk about the theory of mind we are referring to the ability to understand other people by attributing beliefs, desires, intentions, emotions, opinions or thoughts to them. These ideas may be different from one's own beliefs, desires, inten...
There are 18 Types of Inference. Do your inference goals include 3 types of literacy, skills needed to make inferences, the types of inferences and inferential outcomes. If not you are not assessing or teaching inferences. Our three buddies do seem to be surprised, or are they scared, maybe even am...
When teachers decide to use past norms as teaching tools it is incumbent on them that the planning, modeling, and direction of all aspects of the lesson do not inadvertently give the impression that past wrongs are acceptable. I do not know what that North Carolina school was thinking when they allo...
Oral and Written Language activities can greatly impact comprehension, fluency, and other aspects of reading. The following checklists are guides to the tasks that are common in those areas which point to deficits and which may need more comprehensive evaluation and /or remediation.
WRITTEN LANGUAG...
Buried by the Numbers
Dyscalculia is a learning disability in which a child has trouble with math at many levels. Dyscalculia is NOT math anxiety, it is the inability to understand the concepts and or the functions of math and number relationships. They will often struggle with key concepts like l...
DYSLEXIA - DEVELOPMENTAL READING DISORDER
A Language-Based Learning Disability.
“Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficu...
So What is Hyperlexia?
There are some children who can read or decode words far beyond their understanding. In fact, at first glance, some of these children might be considered savants when what you generally have is a splinter skill called hyperlexia. It is often associated with ASD (autism spectr...
Figuring Out How to HELP!
As we continue our quest to identify all the potential roadblocks to reading success we come to our last two major categories of pseudoword decoding and comprehension. At first glance, pseudoword decoding really does look like nonsense. It is that nonsense however that can...
When I first started becoming aware of the many mechanisms that have to be in place and functional in order to read, I really thought it was pretty amazing that anyone ever learns how to read let alone become proficient. Frequently, we accept the evaluations that school districts give us because we ...
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