News, commentary, and resources about Learning Disabilities
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Along with my other blogs (and many others’ blogs, too), LD Blog is joining Sheryl’s promotion of National De-lurking Week on Paper Napkin. It’s coming in January 2006. Readers can get a head start on de-lurking by posting comments now!
Meanwhile, I’m looking for a place to put this image in the navigation elements at the right. Suggestions welcome; leave them [ahem] in the comments on this post.
Pat Lloyd and I are abroad again, but this time it’s not to the East. It’s Portugal and surrounds.
We’re spending most of our time in Braga, which is in the northeast. Although it is a lovely city with a rich history for Portugal, Catholicism, and the ebb and flow of political tides in Europe, we actually have business in Braga. Thanks to a grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, I am teaching at the University du Minho and collaborating with faculty members on potential scholarly activities.
Thanks to the efforts of Luis de Miranda Correira and Ana Paula Martins, faculty members at Minho, I have had the chance to met a class of masters students on Friday the 21st; from 1400-2200, I described US approaches to identification of students with Learning Disabilities (with a substantial side-trip through basic assessment methods). The members of the group, most of whom are practicing teachers, were attentive and responsive. They are eager to know about both the practical side of identification as well as the controversies surrounding such topics as response to intervention.
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