On 5 February 1946, Kenneth A. Kavale was born in Brooklyn (NY, US). After graduating from college, Ken taught for a few years and then began graduate studies. In the 30+ years after he completed graduate work, he became one of the foremost contributors to the contemporary understanding of Learning Disabilities. As a journal editor, speaker, book author, and researcher, he assembled a remarkable record for scholarship. As an advocate, he encourage educators to think carefully about their words and actions. As a pal, he made lots of us laugh. Ken died in 13 December 2008. The phenomenon of Learning Disabilities is better understood because of the work he did.
Read the notice of Professor Kavale’s death on SpedPro.
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Yesterday was the anniversary of I Speak of Dreams, the blog that Liz Ditz maintains. Liz has used it to many sensible and helpful posts for parents, teachers, and others. She’s dug through mountains of information (including mis- and dysinformation) to make sense of issues and then reported about them clearly and thoroughly.
Liz, sorry I’m a day late, but Happy Blogiversary!
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Happy anniversary
It was on this day four years ago that I posted the first entry for LD Blog. Here we are, about 420 posts later and still draggin’ along through the underbrush.
Thanks to everyone who’s read LD Blog regularly and, especially, those who’ve dropped comments and sent correspondence via back channels.
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I’ll be adding some new pages to LD Blog over the next couple of weeks. They’ll appear under the section called “special content” in the header and each will include multi-media content as well as a text.
Although I have selected the topics for the first few, I’d like to determine the topics about which readers would like to see new content. Do you want to have coverage of causes? Treatments? What? I’ve created a poll where readers can vote for topics to be covered. Please vote for up to three different topics.
Continue reading ‘Future content’
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Pete and Pam Wright recently launched a blog, so let’s welcome them to the neighborhood. Their contributions via the rapidly changing form of blogs promise to be helpful. You can read the blog on the Web or, of course, subscribe to it with your favorite RSS reader.
Flash of the electrons to Christina Samuels of On Special Education for alerting me to this.
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Parents who are members of the Mashpee (MA, US) Mashpee Special Education Parents’ Advisory Council (SEPAC) have created an extensive Web site with extensive resources at Mashpee SEPAC. Are there other similar sites created by parent groups? Please add links to any that exist by posting them in comments.
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I’m happy to be home again, refreshed by having had the opportunity to spend time with so many fine folks in San Antonio (TX, US) while at this year’s fall meeting of the Division for Learning Disabilities. The folks who attended the sessions seemed happy to have had the chance to learn how to use evidence-based practices from the experts who conducted the workshops.
And, it was marvelous to have a chance to meet those experts:
- Kimberly Bright
- Yvonne Bui
- Judy B. Engelhard
- Steve Graham
- Shannon Gormley
- Anne Graves
- Susan Gurganus
- Karen R. Harris
- Mary Brindle
- Charles Hughes
- Erica Lembke
- Linda Mason
- Margo A. Mastropieri
- Kristen McMaster
- Rollanda O’Connor
- Susan Osborne
- Paul Riccomini
- Karen J. Rooney
- Laura Saenz
- David Scanlon
- Tom Scruggs
- Pamela Stecker
- William Therrien
- Nancy Cushen White
- Mitchell Yell
Thanks to all who participated. I’ll begin working with Rollanda O’Connor on next year’s meeting right away. We’ll be in Philadelphia next fall. Keep an eye on TeachingLD.org for more.
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LD Blog, which has been housed on my U.Va.-issue server since its inception, will soon move to it’s formal location at http://LDBlog.com. If you have a link or bookmark to it that has johnl.edschool in it, please update it.
I hope to take steps that will capture mistaken requests and reroute them to the correct location, but I am not expert enough to ensure that these steps will work. So a little human intervention is likely to be needed. Thanks.
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New poll: Bogus LD treatment
Here’s a new poll for you summer visitors.
Which of the following treatments for Learning Disabilities do you find the most bogus?
Total Voters: 44