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09/01/2020

This is the essence of reading accommodations that level the playing field! I’m so tired of teachers who says that accommodations are cheating or lower a student’s test score if they had someone read to them!

Like glasses for kids who have visual impairments, assistive tech tools can help students with dyslexia access grade level content.

24/11/2019

https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rejection-sensitivity/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=diagnosis

The textbook signs of ADD — inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity — fail to reflect several of its most powerful characteristics; the ones that shape your perceptions, emotions, and motivatio…

16/01/2019

Great article on adhd in girls! I encounter this so often in my work! “She has weak reading comprehension. She can get facts from a text but does not make links between the ideas she reads. She misses details in instructions on assignments and tests.”

As a psychologist in clinical practice, Meadow Schroeder of the University of Calgary has see many girls and women with ADHD mistakenly prescribed medication for anxiety.

09/12/2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/audiobooks-reading-cheating-listening.html

Each is best suited to different purposes, and neither is superior.

10/11/2018

What you put on your classroom walls can affect your students’ ability to learn.

11/10/2018

https://www.scarymommy.com/after-school-restraint-collapse-is-real/

Don’t be hard on yourself if your kid is like this.

15/10/2017

03/04/2017

Sensory rooms are an incredible resource for all students!

18/02/2017

A fidget, used correctly can make a huge difference to a child who has difficulty sitting in class or staying focused! Many classroom teachers don't like them because they see them as toys and not tools! It's our job to teach students how to use fidgets as a tool!

Before handing fidgets to kids, it's important to explain how to use fidgets as tools (not toys). Here's what LDA Teacher of the Year Nancy Hammill suggests.

23/01/2017

Such a useful tool to help students self regulate!

Learning to Take Control of Emotional Reactions as Part of Problem Solving. We all encounter problems routinely. Some of them are caused by our own mistakes, such as sleeping through the alarm or missing a meeting. Some are caused by others, (a stolen wallet) & some are just bad luck (getting stuck in a traffic jam)! Just about everything we do throughout the day involves solving some kind of problem; it’s just an unavoidable fact of life. What we can do, however, is learn to manage our problems. This involves, in part, managing the emotions that arise when a problem occurs. It also involves being aware of the effect our reactions to our problems have on ourselves and others. https://www.socialthinking.com/Articles?name=Learning+to+Take+Control+of+Emotional+Reactions+as+Part+of+Problem+Solving&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_learningtotakecontrol

10/09/2016

Over the years, I observed so many students get upset by the fact they had “autism” or “Asperger Syndrome” or “ADHD” and in as much as they could verbalize these terms aloud they still didn’t seem to understand what their learning challenges actually were.

25/08/2016

Social Thinking Vocabulary terms describing behavior as “expected” or “unexpected” are popular as they help students develop self-awareness and look for the “hidden social rules” in a situation. This article offers tips and questions to reflect on your instruction to determine if your use of the ter...