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• Blessed Disabilities

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 547
  My daughter started her sophomore year of homeschooling before we finally learned why school was so difficult for her . We walked out of the third floor office of the learning specialist and neither of us spoke. Instead, we each attempted to absorb what the doctor just presented in ...
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• Tourette Syndrome: Homeschooling With Tics

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 547
  We had already begun our homeschooling journey when our younger daughter was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome. Since she was only four years old at the time, I wasn’t all that concerned. She was still in the land of preschool, where other children are blissfully unaware of differences, and where she resided pretty ...
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• The Frustrating Part of Homeschooling

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 547
  “I can’t do it! I told you I can’t!” your son shouts and then throws down his pencil and pushes the book away from him. He jumps up and knocks over his chair, “I hate this!” he yells. He stomps from the room and you hear his door slam once, no twice. As silence descends you wonder where did you go wrong. ...
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• College for Struggling Learners

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 547
  Learning to Compensate Dealing with learning challenges is difficult, but in high school, it can become seriously concerning. You don’t have to be afraid! With the great student to teacher ratio of homeschooling, and the love for your child, you have what it takes! Debbie was at her lowest point when she ...
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• Tailored to Fit

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 547
  One Size Fits Most. That’s what they call it these days. Gone are the days of t-shirts, hats or other clothing items with “One Size Fits All” written on the tag, or so it seems to me as I browse through the racks. Clothing manufacturers are finally noticing that we are not all in the middle of the bell ...
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• Improving the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 146
  Improving the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities   Department of Health, November 2009 Click on the title above to gain direct access to the full-text of this report Abstract: Recent inquiries have demonstrated the health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities; ...
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• Athletes with intellectual disabilities will return to Paralympics - canada.com

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  OTTAWA — The International Paralympic Committee has decided to once again allow athletes with intellectual disabilities to compete alongside athletes with physical disabilities in the Paralympic Games. The IPC voted in favour of the decision at its Continue .. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Athletes with learning ...
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• Press Release: "New Research Sheds Light on Chiropractic and ADHD" -- No It Doesnt!

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 130
  Michael McCoy, a chiropractor who has a number of enterprises going,  including McCoy Press , i  founded a new journal in 2009 , the  Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health - Chiropractic.  It sounds sciency, doesnt it?   It isnt.  One thing McCoy is excellent at is propagating press ...
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• Richard Lavoie

  
  DUTCHCORNER — Authority: 416
  I am a  fan of Richard Lavoie. Years ago I went to a conference in Dunedin where he spoke about learning disabilities. He is an excellent speaker and I learned heaps. To my delight I found a serie of videos on You Tube. All educators, people working with children and parents of children with LD, it is worthwhile to ...
  6 days ago

• Social Networking Website for People with Learning Disabilities

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 157
  International social networking website specifically designed for people with learning disabilities.
  6 days ago

• The future of adult social care in England

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 130
  Quick straw poll: Has the delivery of frontline adult social care services remained high on the agenda for your organisation, despite the economic crisis? A large majority (84%) of social care workers and managers at the Transforming the Adult Social Care Workforce: Putting People First conference in London on ...
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• U.S. National Paralympics rowing team in Austin - News 8 Austin

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  Men and with women with physical injuries, including Afghanistan and Iraq veterans, trained for the Paralympics games in Austin Friday. The Texas Rowing Center is holding the rowing camp all weekend long. The camp is a precursor to the selection of Continue .. Athletes with learning disabilities to compete in ...
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• Columnist: ‘Sadly, most people with a learning disability should not have children’

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  Minette Marrin, writing in the [UK] Sunday Times, reacts to a BBC2 documentary about a couple with Down syndrome who are deciding whether to marry. Marrin’s sister has an intellectual disability. An excerpt:It is hard enough to be an adequate parent with supposedly normal intelligence. For someone of very low ...
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• Pregnant woman with learning disabilities flees to keep baby

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  From the  [UK] Daily Mail, [UK] Times:A pregnant woman with learning disabilities and her fiance have reportedly fled Scotland after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth, saying the woman was not capable of raising the child.Two months ago, the couple’s wedding was halted 48 hours before the ...
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• Joe Elliot and The Myth of Dyslexia, Revisited

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 130
  Julian (Joe) Elliot of Durham University (UK) was at the center of a row in 2005 the UK when he claimed that "dyslexia is a myth", specifically: "Contraryto claims of ‘miracle cures’, there is no sound, widely-accepted bodyof scientific work that has shown that there exists any particularteaching approach more ...
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• ZYDECO HELLRAISERS

  
  "El Milagro Weblog" — Authority: 105
  What happens to Attention Deficit Disorder when it grows up? Sometimes it is channeled into extraordinary gifts. So Michael Phelps Picasso JFK James Carville Robin Williams… …are all reputed ADHD guys. This is hardly an exhaustive list but it’s enough to give you a flavor. I think if they named every ...
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• Fascinating Interview With Stanislas Dehaene and the neuroscience of reading

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 130
  On the shapes of letters: In the case of reading, the shapes of our writing systems have evolved towards a progressive simplification while remaining compatible with the visual coding scheme that is present in all primate brains. A fascinating discovery, made by the American researcher Marc Changizi, is that all of ...
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• Learning Disabilites --The Myth of “Waiting to Fail”

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 130
  The Myth of “Waiting to Fail” « UVA Reading – Richmond . How many times have we heard, “just give it some time, he/she will catch up”; or “there is not enough of a discrepancy between potential and achievement, so they won’t qualify for anything”; or how about this one, “we don’t really do ...
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• Asperger’s Syndrome: Gumby and Wolverine

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 547
  Asperger’s Syndrome: a body like Gumby with a mind like Wolverine’s core being Our son has always had a body he could do weird things with. He pops his jaw in and out of socket. He manipulates his fingers in a way that cracks and pops like wood on a fire. His neck twitches in a way that I sometimes wonder if he ...
  2 weeks ago

• Intel Makes Leap in Device to Aid Impaired Readers

  
  Personal Technology — Authority: 574
  Despite all of the advances in digital technology, too few high-tech products have emerged to help the blind read books or other paper documents, or to make reading such texts easier for people with impaired vision or language-related learning disabilities. A few years back, a breakthrough was made with ...
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