A Great Podcast: Helping Children Overcome Sleep Problems
From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
Last night, Dr. Stephen Lange’s gave a great radio interview about helping children overcome sleep problems. It was chock-full of valuable, practical information.
To listen to or download it, go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/specialneedstalkradio/2011/09/20/maximizing-your-childs-potential.
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The Special Needs Talk Radio Network: It’s On The Air
The new Special Needs Talk Radio network (http://specialneedstalkradio.com/ ) is on the air. Each of its six shows is dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth with special needs and their families. Read more...
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If you’d like to help children achieve their potential, in easy, practical ways:
Monday, 9/19/2011,listen to Dr. Stephen M. Lange. Learn how to help your child overcome sleep problems, problems that can hurt him socially, emotionally, and academically. Click: http://specialneedstalkradio.com/maximizing-your-childs-potential.
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From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
Whatever your child’s academic achievement, he’s unlikely to get a quality college education unless you have limitless buckets of $100 bills. Why? Like public schools, public community colleges and universities are financially starving. Soaring tuition cannot compensate for decades of moribund state funding. This will hurt your child and add to America’s soaring poverty. As Tamar Lewin wrote in the New York Times: Read more...
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If you’d like to help children achieve their potential, in easy, practical ways:
Tonight (9/12/2011), learn about RIIFF – an easy, practical way to help children at home.
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For an insightful and sensitive podcast about inclusion by Kathern Burke (Executive Director, Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta, Canada) and parent of children with special needs, download the podcast from http://www.blogtalkradio.com/specialneedstalkradio/2011/09/09/inclusive-classroom. Below is Inclusion: Why Can’t We Be Friends?, a post that she let us reprint.
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Guest Post by Kathryn Burke
Executive Director
Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta
Alberta, Canada
Some memories are so vivid it almost seems like a DVD is being played in your brain when they are being recalled. The memory I want to share is like that for me – so vivid I am still able to recall everything from the smell of the room to the buzz of the fluorescent lights. Read more...
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A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
On Tuesday, September 6, the new Special Needs Talk Radio network (http://specialneedstalkradio.com/ ) will launch six new radio shows. Each show is dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth with special needs and their families.
On Monday evenings, September 12, Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and I will host Maximizing Your Child’s Potential (9 PM – 9:30 PM EST, http://specialneedstalkradio.com/maximizing-your-childs-potential).
Future guests on our show will include: Read more...
- Dr. Steven Lange, Child and Adolescent Psychologist, Helping Children Overcome Sleep Problems
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From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
For children with reading and other learning disabilities to succeed in school, they need quality schools that create and nurture legitimate opportunities for all children to excel. In thinking about whether we, as a nation, are really trying to achieve this, consider the quotes below. Ask yourself: Without major, sustained efforts to rid the U.S. of poverty and violence, to provide quality health care to all children, and to develop the talents of all children, can we really prepare the majority of children with disabilities to lead productive and satisfying lives? If we don’t help their peers without disabilities, how can we help them? Is inclusion likely to succeed in underfunded schools with lots of hungry, highly stressed children? Are we really trying? Or is “reform” talk just a way to corner votes, $$$, and power? Read more...
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From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
Homework difficulties are often caused by work that requires struggling learners to read or write beyond their independent levels. Difficulties are also caused by work that’s too complex or abstract and by learning characteristics that interfere with starting, organizing, monitoring, and finishing work. As Bryant and her colleagues (2001) so aptly asserted:
Children with learning disabilities are at-risk for a variety of problems that are likely to interfere with doing homework. These risks include deficits in reading and math, poor communication and organizational skills, difficulty with tasks that demand voluntary, selective, and sustained attention . . . poor memory . . . and poor self-monitoring. (p. 171) Read more...
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From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
As many readers of our blog know, a direct mail advertisement from Rutgers University Continuing Studies promised that its 10-hour summer reading program of potentially large classes would quickly “turn poor readers into good readers.” The letter made other promises: Read more...
- Your child will become a strong, independent reader, build confidence, and become more successful in school.
- Your child will complete reading assignments more quickly and easily, be more successful in school, and become a strong, enthusiastic reader.
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From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
Unless you have plenty of money to send your child to top-tier private schools, his educational future is in immediate danger. Budget cuts, budget cuts, budget cuts. Shorter school weeks, fewer services, overloaded and depressed teachers. In his business column, Joe Nocera explained why: Unemployment.
What are the latest unemployment figures? Some 25 million people — more than 16 percent of the work force — are looking for full-time work. Companies are hoarding cash while reporting record profits. Read more...
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