Learning Disabilities

Lynne Peeples

Are Toxic Chemicals To Blame For Rising Rates Of Autism?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: National Stroller Brigade Day of Action, Toxic Chemicals, Cdc, Safe Chemicals Act, Learning Disabilities, Genetics, Autism, Toxic Substances Control Act, Autism Pregnancy, Autism Risk Factors, Autism Chemicals, Green News

While pregnant with her son Edgar, Melissa Wolfe followed the lead of many a cautious woman before her. She took prenatal vitamins and ate organic veg...

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Moving Forward

Cory Zacker | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Children With Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Students, Special Needs, Special Education Schools, Learning Issues, Education News
Cory Zacker

Parents of kids with learning issues have a lot of questions, but this the biggest one of all: If my child is struggling now, will he always? Listening to those who have been there, done that, is like looking into a crystal ball.

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Lynne Peeples

Lead Poisoning Prevention Funds Slashed, Costly Consequences For Children's Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Federal Funding, Toxic Chemicals, Lead, Lead Poisoning, Cdc, Learning Disabilities, Violence, Adhd, Attention Deficit Disorder, Lead Poisoning Prevention, Children's Health, Green News

When Devon Owens checked his then 2-year-old daughter, Dallas, into the hospital last year, he wasn't sure what to expect. He just knew that routine m...

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Lynne Peeples

Getting The Lead Out: Lead Emissions From Aviation Fuel Continue To Threaten Children's Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Avgas, Lead Poisoning, Lead Pollution, Aviation Fuel, Lead Paint, Learning Disabilities, Epa, Federal Aviation Administration, Leaded Gasoline, Aviation, Green News

Last Wednesday, the environmental advocacy group Friends of the Earth filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, challenging th...

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The Gift Of Good Health

Javier Sierra | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Fetuses, Learning Disabilities, Big Coal, Epa, Public Health, Obama Administration, Global Motherhood, Babies, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, Coal-Fired Plants, Coal Pollution, Decreased IQ, Hispanic Community, Cerebral Palsy, Mercury, Birth Defects, Neurotoxin, Latino Voices News
Javier Sierra

According to a LULAC study, almost 30 percent of Hispanics live dangerously close to a coal-fired plant.

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Applying To College With ADD

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: College Admissions, Add, American University, Yourtake, University of Denver, Lesley University, Learning Disabilities, Adhd, Dyslexia, University of Arizona, College Applications, High School News

Besides the usual stress over getting good SAT scores, writing a powerful personal statement, and making the perfect college list, having a learning d...

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Anesthesia Before Age 2 May Be Linked With Learning Disabilities Later On

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Anesthesia Learning Disabilities, Anesthesia, Video, Anesthesia Kids Safe, Anesthesia Health, Anesthesia Safe, Anesthesia Cognitive Problems, Learning Disabilities, Anesthesia Kids, Healthy-Living-Health-News, Parents-Childrens-Healthy-Lifestyle, Healthy-Kids, Parents News

If an infant or toddler has surgery requiring anesthesia, it could raise the risk of learning disabilities later in life, a new study suggests. The...

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The Girl Who Played With an Imaginary Rope

Shira Hirschman Weiss | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Children With Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Learning Disabilities, PL 94-142, Adhd, Add, Special Needs Children, Education Reform, Special Needs, Education News
Shira Hirschman Weiss

Teachers need to empower students with confidence rather than creating an environment of "learned helplessness" by placing the majority of the emphasis on "weaknesses" and "fixing problems."

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Dyslexia Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

Donna Flagg | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Education, Workplace, Business, Dyslexia, Diversity, Cognition, Learning Disabilities, Education News
Donna Flagg

My success today is directly tied to my ostensible failures of the past, not because of the scars, but because of what I had to learn in order to survive a system that did not recognize me as a legitimate member.

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Penguins Can't Fly... But They Can Soar

Freddie Gershon | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Coachella Valley Autism Society of America, Learning Disabilities, Arts Funding, New York City Schools, The Kennedy Center, Arts Education, Intellectual Disabilities, Visual and Hearing Impairments, David Brooks, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte NC, Autism Society of East Tennessee, Autism, The Penguin Project in Peoria IL, Down Syndrome, Neurological Disorders., Detour Company Theatre in Phoenix, Education Reform, Cerebral Palsy, Arts News
Freddie Gershon

In my blog "Look Papi... I Did It", I identified P.94 and their experience with disabled children who defied prognostication by breaking through and f...

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Sierra Club Took My Hair and All I Got Was a Beyond Coal Button

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Epa, Governor Jerry Brown, Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disabilities, Mercury, Ladwp, Beyond Coal Campaign, Neurotoxin, Lisa Jackson, Mercury Poisoning, Sierra Club, The Cove, Clean Air Act, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Methylmercury, University of Georgia, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

I just had a lock of my hair chopped off to benefit science and the planet. I was joined by other moms, children and babies in more than 25 cities ac...

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A Story About Learning Disabilities

Kate Fridkis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children With Learning Disabilities, Education, Kate Fridkis, Learning, Learning Disabilities, Illiteracy, Education News
Kate Fridkis

Not every eight-year-old brain is ready to absorb the information that a nationally approved 3rd grade curriculum demands it process. But when they don't learn it on time, they learn that they are "slow."

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Lady Gaga Is out of Her Mind -- and I Love It

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lady GaGa, Education, Madison Square Garden, Learning Disabilities, Monster Ball, Schizophrenia, Creativity, Special Education, Entertainment News
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

Last night, I watched a grown woman dance with bloodthirsty monsters and set off firecrackers from her bra. And this didn't take place in a mental institution. It took place in Madison Square Garden.

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Weekly Mulch: What's in Your Water? Nuclear Waste, Coal Slurries and Industrial Estrogen

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grist, Estrogen, The American Prospect, Hydrofracking, MUTANT FISH, COAL SLURRIES, SUE STURGIS, Water Supply, Pittsburgh, Running Out of Water, Contamination, Arsenic, Grittv, Enriched Uranium, New Jersey, Natural Gas, Water Pollution, Nuclear Waste, Massey Energy, Clean Coal, PURGEN, Care2, YES! Magazine, East Tennessee, Linden, Mining, Fracking, Factory Farms, Rhrealitycheck, Oceans, 60 Minutes, Susan Leal, Water, EE2, Bpa, Learning Disabilities, change.org, Coal, LADYPEE, MINGO COUNTY, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger It won't be long before the world has to confront its diminishing supply of clean water. "We've had the sa...

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Writing hard stuff for children

Katharine Quarmby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Children With Learning Disabilities, Equality, Disability, Hate Crimes, Learning Disabilities, Disability Rights, Healthy Living News
Katharine Quarmby

I'm nearly at the end of nine months hard slog on my first non-fiction book for adults, - the secret history of disability hate crime. It's not a chee...

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Why Expeditionary Learning or 'Learning by Doing' Could Save Education

Michelle Lamar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Kansas City Academy, Education, Education Reform, El, Learning Disabilities, Expeditionary Learning, Education News
Michelle Lamar

The Expeditionary Learning philosophy is the best thing you've never heard of but it could save our educational system. The "EL" approach succeeds in urban, rural or suburban schools and at every grade level.

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720 Saturdays and a Silver Dollar

Kari Stoever | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: We Are Marshall, Downs Syndrome, Education, Huntington, Learning Disabilities, u.s. Department of Education, Teachers, Marshall University Football Team, Wv, Healthy Living News
Kari Stoever

The word "serendipity" comes from the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip," whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents a...

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More Intellectually Disabled Youths Go To College

AP | HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Intellectually Disabled Youth, Colleges for Learning Disabilities, College, Learning Disabilities, College News

WARRENSBURG, Mo. — Zach Neff is all high-fives as he walks through his college campus in western Missouri. The 27-year-old with Down syndrome hu...

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How Johnny (and Janie) Can Learn to Read

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children Reading, Education, Disabilities, Children, Learning Disabilities, Teachers, Schools, Education Reform, Education News
Joel Shatzky

It is vital for reading specialists to be up to date on the latest research to know the best way to teach young learners how to become fluent readers.

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There is Nothing 'Special' About Special Education

April Rudin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: April Rudin, Autism, Education, Education Reform, Special Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning, Education News
April Rudin

There are more children than ever being diagnosed with learning differences, and social skill deficiencies. This influx is requiring school districts, teachers, parents and even kids to rethink what the term "special education" means.

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Does 'Normal' Really Exist?

Donna Flagg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Normal, Learning Disabilities, Societal Norms, What Is Normal, The Balanced Life, Normalcy, The Norm, Norm, Learning Disability, Healthy Living News
Donna Flagg

Maybe, at the end of the day, there is something not so "normal" in thinking that everyone, in the whole wide world, should be the same.

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Bold Changes, Great Leaders, Big Movements

Ambassador Swanee Hunt and Adria D. Goodson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Movement, Rachel Lloyd, Social Justice, Learning Disabilities, Sexual Exploitation, Prime Movers, Human Trafficking, Mark Hanis, Genocide, Social Movements, Domestic Workers, Social Entrepreneur, David Flink, Social Capital, Youth-Food-Movement, Anim Steel, Ai-Jen Poo, Josh Viertel, Impact News
Ambassador Swanee Hunt and Adria D. Goodson

Our country is facing a glut of complex problems that no single politician, political party, or other organization can solve in a lasting way, without help. For shifts of this magnitude, we need social movements and compelling leaders.

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Charter Schools Pulling the Bait and Switch on Learning Disabilities?

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayor Bloomberg, Charter Schools, Learning Disabilities, New York News
Joel Shatzky

According to parents, the approach of some charter schools has been to promise that learning disabled children will have their needs met but not delivering once the child is enrolled.

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From Disbelief and Ignorance to Anger and Action

Katharine Quarmby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Hate Crime, Hate Crimes, Social Networking, England, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Disability, Deaf, World News
Katharine Quarmby

Police and prosecutors are only too keen to investigate and prosecute disability hate crime. And disabled people want action. Most of the pieces of the jigsaw are there -- but it's still often too difficult to put it all together.

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The Dubnoff Center Continues To Help Kids While California Continues To Cut Funds

Terry Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education Funding, Reggie Smith, Budget Cuts, Children, Education, Fundraiser, Dodgers, Sacramento, Dubnoff Center for Child Development, Learning Disabilities, Golf Tournament, Dubnoff, Impact News
Terry Gardner

The Dubnoff Center For Child Development plans to host its 7th Annual Charity Golf Tournament in hopes of offsetting the massive California budget cuts that have stripped our educational institutions bare.

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