Archive for January, 2008

NCLD on FB

Published by JohnL on 8 January 2008 in News, Policy and The Press. 3 Comments

Thanks to Nancy Mamlin, I learned that the National Center on Learning Disabilities (NCLD; the well-financed, not-for-profit, lobbying group based in New York, NY, US; see earlier entry about Carrie Rozell’s valuable contributions) has a presence of Facebook. I joined.

It’s good to see that this cause has a presence in that venue. Though I haven’t taken the time to sift through them all and there may be some clunkers among them, I found some encouraging comments there.

I’m on FB as myself, not some pseudonym, by the way. Feel free to send me a notice, if you’re there. Of course, if you’re already on FB, you can join the cause using this invitation. Note that there is a link to NCLD in the sidebar.

Nancy, I may have joined directly, so I’m not sure whether it will show up as coming through your invitation. I fear you won’t get credit for recruiting me. Sorry.

New CLD Web site

Published by JohnL on 6 January 2008 in Comments and News. 0 Comments

The Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) has launched its revised Web site. CLD, which has been an active and affirmative force in support of Learning Disabilities for many years, sent this message to its members last week.

We are proud to announce the launch of our new website! This website was designed to provide you more information about CLD, the field of learning disabilities, and our upcoming conferences, as well as membership information. We welcome your comments and feedback on what you like about our new website, as well as letting us know of any problems you might find. Please contact us at mailto:CLDInfo||@||ie-events.com [remove the pipes surrounding the at sign] to tell us what you think!

There’s been a link in the LD Blog blog roll pretty much since the beginning of this blog. It’ll stay there, but for folks’ convenience, here’s another link that will allow you to explore the new CLD Web site.

Seen TZP?

Published by JohnL on 3 January 2008 in Comments, Dyslexia, News, Not LD and The Press. 0 Comments

This is the lead from an editorial praising a movie the movie, “Taare Zameen Par.” The movie is generating multiple entries in my Google news searches.

Eagle’s Eye: Every child is special

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan’s directorial debut, Taare Zameen Par (TZP) focusing on the saga of a dyslexic child, possibly is one of the outstanding Hindi films produced in 2007.
Released 21 December worldwide, TZP vividly portrays the manner in which an eight-year-old boy, disinterested in studies, is humiliated and punished by all his teachers at school.

At his home, too, with utter disregard to the boy’s special talent for painting, his parents pack him off to a boarding school as a disciplinary measure. The boy faces virtually living hell and yet again fares badly in studies until an exceptional art teacher (played by Aamir) ‘discovers’ the hidden talents of the child.

Later in the editorial, the author trots out the usual list of famous individuals said to have had dyslexia and raises the currently pop ideas of Professor Julie Logan from the Cass Business School in London, which we’ve discussed before on LD Blog. Sigh.

Although I have serious problems with those lapses and the intellectually challenged idea expressed in the film and the editorial title (”every child is special”), I wonder what the movie’s like. Anyone seen it? I’d like to see it.

Links:
The original editorial ;
The earlier post about Professor Logan’s research;
The official Web site for the film.