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“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein
The following websites offer more on how to make sure All Children learn! "Learning disabilities" while quite real, are really better thought of as learning differences, and we need to provide students with what they need to learn the way that works for them! By researching the commonalities among the identified "disabilities" we can best develop the most efficient learning conditions for each child.
Articles and Informational websites |
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Why Reading is not a Natural Process--ASCD G. Reid Lyon | Succeed to Read |
How Children Learn to Spell | Struggling Readers--4 case studies, and links for further reading |
All Kinds of Minds--Home | Reading Online --Teaching Readers who Struggle article |
All Kinds of Minds--Glossary of terms (breaking the code) | LD Basics--LD Online |
LDA--Learning Disabilities of America | Common Signs of Learning Disablities--LD online |
Article, Early Identification and Intervention ...Reading Disabilities--NRCLD |
Learning Disabilities Online--LD online ,Articles on all areas of learning |
Specific Areas |
Tools and Interventions |
Dyslexia--requires more than "trying harder", dys-add | Orton Gillingham--Wilson-- multisensory, explicit, systematic instruction |
Dyslexia Teacher--Multi-sensory teaching methods | Education Oasis --Interventions for PA,Fluency,Comprehension... |
Bright Solutions for Dyslexia | Phonemic Awareness-- Intervention |
How to Teach People with Dyslexia--Bright Solutions | Therapro, --Order materials to assist with struggling readers |
Dyslexia ages 3-6--Caremark | Article, Increasing the Intensity of Intervention--LEA |
Reading Rockets--Article on Fluency, Dyslexia, and anything else! | Reading Interventions--links to other sites for interventions |
International Dyslexia Association--promoting literacy through research, education and advocacy | Intervention Central |
What is Dyslexia?National Institute of Neurological Disorders | Precision Teaching, --article from Teaching Exceptional Children |
Dyslexia Awareness-- A learning difference... | Evidence That Tutoring Works--Article supporting use of tutoring, defines effective tutoring processes |
Reading Genie--Alphabetic Code, Research based reading instruction | |
Visual Processing, --National Center for Learning Disorders | Vowel Use Charts--Busy Teacher Cafe |
Visual Perceptual-- Skill worksheets | If...Then Intervention Ideas from Carls Corner, Struggler Street |
Visual and Auditory Processing and Perception: LD Online | RTI--several supporting papers,Links |
Hyperlexia | Research Based Instruction--Links |
Decodable Books--cvc and c-e in powerpoint, Reading Genie | |