Using MS Word Readability to Improve Your Student’s Writing
Using MS Word readability statistics can help student's understand ways to improve their writing.
Dyscalculia and Long Division
by Anna Super, guest blogger Growing up with Dyscalculia was lonely. Everyone expects students not to like math and, traditionally, many people make the false assumption that more girls dislike math than boys. So when I voiced my concern and stress over learning math I was usually greeted with a smi [...]
Homework Ideas for Students with Learning Disabilities
By guest author Anna Super. As a child growing up with a diagnosed but unspecified learning disability, I was often told that I was intelligent but that I learned differently. I believed that wholeheartedly until I was in high school. In high school, I began to realize that the students that learned [...]
Helping or Hovering?
One important issue that we often see when teaching students with special needs is the difference between helping students to complete tasks themselves and hovering over them. The Council for Exceptional Children published a study that addresses and clarifies this issue, Helping or Hovering? Effects [...]
Homework, A Letter To Teachers
Dear Teachers, My former child and teenage self wanted to share something with you about homework. Something that may help you assign homework that will educate kids like me. You see, I have a learning disability. I was diagnosed with one in kindergarten, but I wasn’t given an exact diagnosis. In ad [...]