October 1, 2019
By: Danielle Simbajon
Source: Frontline Blog Dyslexia, a neuro-biological disorder that affects language processing, has no bearing on intelligence, but complicates a student’s ability to learn by making both reading and verbal communication difficult. Because dyslexia notoriously flies under the radar, a child can go years with the disorder unidentified and with no answer for why schoolwork […]
October 1, 2019
By: Meg Hamel
Source: Ed Surge One of the most impactful activities from my Master’s coursework in secondary English education was a reader biography. As an introduction to our teaching methodology class, our professor asked us to catalog all the books we could remember reading up to the age of 18. We then reflected on which […]
October 1, 2019
By: Blythe Bernhard
Source: Disability Scoop After officials in the last holdout state enacted a new rule, all 50 states and Washington, D.C. have mandates that require some level of insurance coverage for the treatment of autism. The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance now requires all individual, small and large group insurance plans issued in […]
September 30, 2019
By: Shaun Heasley
Source: Disability Scoop With millions of new dollars for research on Down syndrome, federal officials have effectively doubled their investment in understanding the chromosomal disorder in the last year alone. The National Institutes of Health said it has committed to some $35 million in additional grants for the 2019 fiscal year, bringing the […]
September 26, 2019
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop The number of American children with developmental disabilities “increased significantly” in recent years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in 6 children — or 17.8 percent — had at least one developmental disability in 2017, researchers from the federal agency say […]
September 26, 2019
By: Sheri Rodman
Source: EdSurge Twenty years ago, I was a freshman in high school. I spent the next four years in my assigned seat among the rows of desks, trying to listen to the teacher at the front of the room, completing homework assignments from textbooks, and preparing for tests by making countless flashcards. […]
September 26, 2019
By: Donna St. George
Source: The Washington Post POMFRET, Md. — The walls need paint, the floors are bare and it could be November before children are seated in classrooms. But here, in Southern Maryland, Kimberly Hill sees her surroundings as a solution to increasingly disruptive behavior by the very young. This space will soon become an […]
September 25, 2019
By: Shawna De La Rosa
Source: Education Dive A new study conducted by The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University examined hundreds of millions of tests taken by white, black and Hispanic students nationwide, finding poverty impacts U.S. achievement gaps more than race. The study concludes racial segregation is associated with the achievement gap because students of color […]
September 24, 2019
By: Michelle Diament
Source: Disability Scoop Pediatricians are conducting routine checks for autism, but new research suggests they frequently fail to act when screenings show cause for concern. A study looking at medical records for children who visited 290 doctors between 2014 and 2016 shows that the vast majority were screened for autism at ages […]
September 24, 2019
By: Yesenia Robles
Source: Chalkbeat Last year, Elkhart Elementary’s full-time psychologist kept busy working with students with special needs who she was required to help. If a need cropped up among the rest of the student body, Ariel Bowlby sometimes couldn’t respond — unless the issue turned into a crisis. Assistant Principal Angie Paz often had to […]