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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!

Take those eyeglasses off in school! We wouldn’t want him to grow dependent! Like glasses for kids who have visual impairments, assistive tech tools can help students with dyslexia access grade level content.

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

3 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks 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…

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.”

14 signs your daughter may have ADHD, according to a psychologist 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.

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

Opinion | Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It? Each is best suited to different purposes, and neither is superior.

Dos and Don’ts of Classroom Decorations | Edutopia What you put on your classroom walls can affect your students’ ability to learn.

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

After-School Restraint Collapse Is Real, And This Is What It Means Don’t be hard on yourself if your kid is like this.

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!

Teacher Tip: The Dos and Don’ts of Fidgets for Kids 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.

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

Teaching Students about Their Learning Strengths and Weaknesses 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.

Are You Teaching Deeply, or Redirecting Behavior? Using the Social Thinking Vocabulary Terms Expected and Unexpected 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...