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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Welcome Pete and Pam</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/05/09/welcome-pete-and-pam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pete and Pam Wright recently launched a blog, so let&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local parent groups</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/05/04/local-parent-groups/</link>
		<comments>http://LDBlog.com/2008/05/04/local-parent-groups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 16:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Language development: Speechome Project</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/04/21/record-lang-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting research project: Equip a house with a host of highly sensitive audio-video recording devices that pipe the data into cluster of high-powered computers which have an array of very capacious storage devices. Using this system, document the language environment in which a child is raised and record the child&#8217;s language development. Pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADHD in families</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/04/18/adhd-in-families/</link>
		<comments>http://LDBlog.com/2008/04/18/adhd-in-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. M. Romanos and colleagues examined the genetic make-up of several families and found that there are common elements that appear to be associated with ADHD. Although these findings point toward a genetic contribution to ADHD, it is important to note the caveat implied by the final sentence of the abstract: So many factors contribute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little history</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/04/04/a-little-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to be on a panel with some folks who have had significant influence on the study of Learning Disabilities. This was a special session for the Division for Learning Disabilities at the 2008 convention of the Council for Exceptional Children. Here are two photos. In the first photo, left to right: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helmer Myklebust</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/03/28/helmer-myklebust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Helmer R. Myklebust, one of the pioneering figures in Learning Disabilities, died 26 February 2008. Predicated on his work on differentiating among speech disorders, Professor Myklebust emphasized the language-based aspects of Learning Disabilities. He theorized that there were different types of Learning Disabilities and that these types required different treatments. Throughout his career, Professor Myklebust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Differential drug effects in arithmetic</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/03/18/differentdrugeffects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Orly Rubinsten and colleagues found that methylphenidate affects the arithmetic performance of children in different ways, but its effects are not only on children with ADHD. When they received methylphenidate, the active ingredient in Ritalin, children had higher correct responding on problems requiring them to follow a series of steps than when they didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Gym (Skeptic&#8217;s Dictionary)</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/03/11/braingym_skepticdictionary/</link>
		<comments>http://LDBlog.com/2008/03/11/braingym_skepticdictionary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wheeeheee! Over on the Skeptic&#8217;s Dictionary, Robert T. Carroll has a take-down and pin of Brain Gym. The contemporary incarnation of some ideas that were thoroughly discredited in Learning Disabilities in the 1970s, Brain Gym is making something of a splash. Shoot, it even appeared in one of my Curry School colleague&#8217;s classes for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dyscalculia day</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/03/03/dyscalculia-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Liz Ditz has a post noting today&#8217;s status as &#8220;International Dyscalculia Awareness Day, Today.&#8221; Read it here. 
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		<title>DYX1C1: How genetic variation affects proteins and thus dyslexia</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2008/03/03/dyx1c1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the paper was published several years ago, it is worth noting. It may not be news, but it forms part of the fabric one has to consider in thinking about the nature of dyslexia. Read this in the context of other stories (e.g., this one) about genetic bases for dyslexia. 
A candidate gene for [...]]]></description>
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