A person who identifies himself as Ken B (no period) has launched a blog called “Learning Disabilities” on blogspot. There have been three posts in October, one of which addresses the question of whether LD can be outgrown and another of which describes types of LD.
The content appears well-intentioned, but slightly askew. Mr. B divides LD into developmental speech and language disorders, academic skills disorders, and “Other,” subtypes that are close to O.K., but not all the way there. (At least he didn’t go for visual, auditory, haptic, kinesthetic, gustatory, and olfactory!) He also indicates that diagnoses are based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association; DSM does include a diagnostic category “Learning Disorder,” but it’s quite different from the legal defintion, provided in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, that governs provision of services in US schools.
Link to M. B’s blog, http://learning–disabilities.blogspot.com/. I hope it doens’t just turn out to be one of those blogs constructed simply to reap advertising revenue; I don’t mind advertising, but I do find annoying blogs that are vacuous placeholders for advertising. Technoratic tags: learning disabilities
Hello,
I have a resource is great to help LD kids improve their memory.
Could I ask you to announce it on your blog? You can join my affiliate program and make money if people buy. I would send you and image of the book and you could put it on the site. If someone clicked and bought, you would get paid.
No work at all on your part.
Here is the site:
http://www.memorizing-made-easy.com
Please let me know when you can.
Thanks,
Jim