Monthly Archive for June, 2011

NCLD supplement for USA Today

Sheldon Horowitz and colleagues at the National Center for Learning Disabilities published a multipage supplement about Learning Disabilities in USA Today in late May of 2011. If you missed the print version, you can snag a PDF from this link.

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Bignity launched

Jaime Openden and her colleagues have launched Bignity a new Web resource for the disability community. There are podcasts, news entries, and other sorts of materials for one to review. The authors cover many different topics. Check on it!

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Dyscalculia gets good ink

In the prestigious journal Science, Professors Brian Butterworth, Sashank Varma, and Diana Laurillard published a review article discussing dyscalculia, the Learning Disability that makes arithmetic and mathematics an especially- miserable muddle for some students. In their review they explain why mathematical problems are important to individuals and society, what dyscalculia is, what neuroscientists know about mathematics and dyscalculia, and what they see as the outlook for dyscalculia.
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