Via a post by “Sixty-Five” at Life Begins at Sixty-Five, I learned of an article by Alex Witchel in the New York Times featuring the famous chef, Jamie Oliver. The 35-year-old Mr. Oliver has been a one-person juggernaut in the world of cuisine. Mr. Witchel’s story is about Mr. Oliver going to a metropolitan area in West Virginia (US) noted for the high rates of obesity among its populace; there he will promote the pleasures of home-cooked food.
As Sixty-Five noted, an interesting subtext to the story is Mr. Oliver’s schooling experiences. Mr. Oliver’s success comes against a back drop of Learning Disabilities. Here’s a snippet from the Times article to illustrate:
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Although registration continues for the Division for Learning Disabilities conference, “Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice,” some of the sessions are reaching their limits and will be closed. As a part of its emphasis on creating workshop settings where participants learn how to implement evidence-based practices, DLD caps the number of participants in sessions.
Linda Siegel has put together a very impressive line-up of presenters and topics. As one can see here, the agenda for the meeting in San Diego 23 & 24 October 2009 is chocked full of good sessions by internationally renowned presenters.
Presenter
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Title
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| David F. Bateman |
How to Prepare for and Survive a Due Process Hearing |
| Jenny Sue Flannagan & Lucinda S. Spaulding |
Best Practices for Inclusive Science Instruction |
| Steve Graham & Sharlene Kiuhara |
Writing Problems and Writing Solutions |
| Paige C. Pullen |
Phonological Awareness Assessment and Instruction: A Sound Beginning |
| Karen R. Harris, Karin Sandmel, & Mary Brindle, |
“The Magna Carta Provided That No Free Man Should be Hanged Twice for the Same Offense”: Self-Regulated Strategy Development for Writing |
| Charles A. Hughes |
Two Recent SIM Writing Strategies: The Essay Test-Taking Strategy and the Editing Strategy |
| Erica Lembke & Todd Busch |
Using Curriculum-Based Measurement for Data-Based Decision Making within a Response to Intervention System |
| Maureen W. Lovett
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Multiple Component Intervention to Improve the Outcomes of Struggling Readers: Remediating Reading Skill Deficits and Misguided Beliefs About Effort and Achievement at the Same Time
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| Marjorie Montague |
Improving Mathematical Problem Solving of Middle School Students with LD |
| Brian Bottge |
Teaching Mathematics to Adolescents with LD in Rich Problem-Solving Contexts |
| Rosemary Tannock |
Understanding and Engaging Children’s Wandering Minds |
| Karen J. Rooney |
Adolescent Literacy: Putting Research into Practice to Develop the Literacy Skills of Older Students |
| Deborah C. Simmons |
Integrating Vocabulary Strategies into Social Studies Instruction |
| David Scanlon |
The ORDER Routine: For Comprehending Content-Area Concepts |
| José Luis Alvarado & Anne Graves
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RTI for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners: Supporting Teachers to Implement Tier I and Tier II Literacy Instruction for Older Struggling
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| Susan P. Miller
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Building a Strong Numbers and Operations Foundation to Enhance Mathematics Success
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| Nicole Ofiesh |
“Got Accommodations?” Implications for Planning Instruction and Transition from Secondary to Postsecondary Settings |
| Rollanda E. O’Connor |
Successful Tier 2 Interventions in Reading: Grades K-4 |
| Kimberly Bright & Paul Riccomini |
I THINK: A Real-Life Problem-solving Strategy for secondary students with Learning Disabilities |
Link to the conference page at TeachingLD.org to register.
Celebrities with dyslexia
In “11 Celebrities Who Overcame Dyslexia” on Mental Floss, Scott Allen posted a list of people who have dyslexia and whose names many people recognize. His lead tells the tale.