Over on Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests, Kevin McGrew has a good note about mistaken reports of correlations between measures of reading performance. His explanation probably will be instructive to some readers. Read it here.
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On Charles Fox’s Special Education Law Blog, there is a post entitled “Guided Reading: Is It Really Appropriate for Students with a Reading Disability? by Lisa Hannum” that some readers may find valuable. Ms. Hannum questions the utility of guided reading activitities for students with Learning Disabilities in reading, expressing her concern that it fosters guessing and use of other strategies that are inefficient and that lead to mistakes.
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Ms. Esther Yap, Ms. Christine Lim, Ms. Angie Ng, Ms. Dorothy Wong, and Dr. Noel Chia have launched a site called LSESNET that is apparently based in Singapore. It is devoted to promoting services for children and youth. What caught my eye was a post about an evaluation of Orton-Gillingham training. This is drawn from their “about” page:
The LSESnet stands for Learning Sparks Educational Services InterNET. Its web blog serves as an informal platform for interested readers to give constructive feedback and comments on various topics and issues relating to the following:
* Distance education and lifelong learning
* General/mainstream education
* Language and literacy arts education
* Mathematics and numeracy education
* Pre-school and Montessori education
* Special education, counselling and psychologyThese topics are also offered as courses/workshops through the LSES institutes supported by its e-libraries and e-helper resources. Help services for parents and their children are also provided by the LSES. For more details, please visit www.lsesnet.com.
Link to LSESNet and to their blog.
Sphere: Related ContentOver on Teach Effectively I’ve posted a note about Siegfried Engelmann’s new book, The Outrage of Project Follow Through: 5 Million Failed Kids Later. He will be publishing it serially on the Internet before it appears as an actual trade book in the general market. The book recounts Zig’s recollections of his career in education. Interested readers will want to download copies of the chapters.
Sphere: Related ContentOver on I Speak of Dreams, Liz Ditz has several recent posts readers might enjoy…or at least find educational.
Sphere: Related ContentLisa Flischler, who blogs at Letters from Lisa, dropped a comment on one of my fav sites (Liz Ditz’s I Speak of Dreams) inviting folks to send her links about resources written by individuals with Learning Disabilities. Follow this link to see the invitation. From there you can work backwards to Lisa’s blog (or go there directly).
Sphere: Related ContentWriting in the Missoula (MT, US) Missoulian on 8 January 2007, Rob Granger provided a feature story about dyslexia that provided a reasonably sensible account of the condition. Despite a couple of bumps, Mr. Granger got a lot right.
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Sphere: Related ContentPaul Sanchez, whom loyal readers will recognize as the solo in Soloride and the wisher in 8Wishes, has posted his fund-raising video. You can contribute simply by watching it here.
Sphere: Related ContentEmma, who blogs as “WheelchairPrincess,” weighed in on the hot topic about the child named Ashley whose parents elected to have growth attenuation treatments to keep her (Ashley) physically undeveloped. Like other entries on WheelchairPrincess, this particular entry is a thoughtful and personal observation on the issues involved in the Ashley story. But, it includes a choice of words that perpetuates the idea that Learning Disabilities is a generic term, not the specific disability identified in US (and other countries’) laws. WheelchairPrincess wrote, “The short version is that Ashley X is 9 years old and has profound physical and learning disabilities.”
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MR not LD
Here’s another case of the misuse of “Learning Disability.” In a story about an Ohio (US) organization eliminating “mental retardation” from its name, Holly Zachariah of the Columbus (OH, US) Dispatch reported on “MRDD considers name change: ‘Mental retardation’ degrading, hurtful slang, some say.” Ohio’s Association of County Boards of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities is likely to follow a national movement in changing to a name that only refers to Developmental Disabilities.
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