What happens when neuroscience meets Dr. Seuss? Hosted by Henry Winkler, who has had his own struggles with reading, Reading and the Brain explores how brain scientists are working to solve the puzzle of why some children struggle to read and others don't. Startling new research shows the answer may lie in how a child's brain is wired from birth. This program is the eighth episode of Launching Young Readers, WETA's award–winning series of innovative half-hour programs about how children learn to read, why so many struggle, and what we can do to help.

Every day, parents ask professionals for advice on buying toys for their children. Often, shoppers are wary of buying toys for special needs children. However, selecting a toy for any child begins with two steps: first, learning what the child is interested in, and second, assessing his or her skill level. Let's Play: A Guide to Toys for Children with Special Needs is a helpful educational tool designed to assist with this selection process. After reviewing this guide and doing your homework, we encourage you to visit toy shelves (both online and at your local retailer) and sample the great products designed to excite, engage and enthrall your child. Experience with them the joy and happiness of play!

We love music and are committed to music education, within our community and beyond. This website, in conjunction with our live performances, provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music. Consider this site your premier web destination for learning about music -- that's why it's here! And, if you'd like to share this site with others, send them a postcard. We hope you enjoy the SFS Kids' Site and we encourage you to visit time and time again!

If you’re the parent of a child who’s having trouble learning or behaving in school, you quickly find yourself confronted with a series of difficult choices.

This is a preview of the planned feature-length documentary AM I BROKEN? This preview piece captures in interview format the types of stories that we'll be capturing in real time while on location for one full school year. Visit amibroken.org to see how you can get involved and make this project come to life.

Welcome to the draft of the National Education Technology Plan. We encourage you to host discussion groups with various stakeholders and look forward to your comments, ideas, and links to appropriate videos, stories and research. Commenting is available at the bottom of each page, enabling you to provide comments within the context of the plan and we will make this feature available for the next sixty days. Thank you.

After winning his fight to live on campus, Micah Fialka-Feldman moved into the Oakland University dorms in January. The Oakland Post talked to Micah about the first half of his semester  and what he expects after graduation.

By Kandis Peterson In this world of ours, we often feel like we are just dust in the wind. Sometimes feeling like we are important to someone is what keeps us going. The world moves fast and time passes quickly. I realize the importance in people in our community … maybe more so this month than in others. All across our nation in March, Developmental Disability Month is being celebrated. The purpose of this awareness is to help educate the general population about individuals with these disabilities and the issues that are important to them.

Variations of the term “Asperger’s syndrome” topped Google searches Wednesday, following the second episode of an NBC show featuring a character with the disorder.

The U.S. Secretary of Education testified about the President’s FY 2011 budget request and ESEA reauthorization to the House Education and Labor Committee. Duncan was grilled by both Republicans and Democrats about the lack of funding increases for IDEA.

Writing is difficult. Most writers could relate to the frustration expressed by this student. Writing is a complex process that draws on: our knowledge of the topic our ability to anticipate what readers will need our ability to logically organize information our skill at finding the right words our ability to evaluate our efforts the perseverance to keep working

If you are working in the field of assistive technology or rehabilitation engineering, studying or just interested in the field, then this is the conference for you!  You will be able to learn about the latest advances in technology solutions for persons with disability and network with others with similar interests while earning continuing education credit (CEUs).  

As you peruse Fat Brain Toys, you may find something missing. In fact, if you're accustomed to the toy selection found at most stores, you may find lots of items missing. Missing are the licensed, violent, cheaply made toys that end up in the trash can shortly after being played with by your child. But what you will find instead are THOUSANDS of quality, open-ended toys, games, and gifts that entertain AND educate.

TUBA CITY, Ariz. — After less than two hours in the maternity ward, with her boyfriend, his mother and a nurse-midwife by her side, Jacquelynn Torivio gave birth to a five-pound, five-ounce son with his grandmother’s dimples and a full head of shiny black hair.

As she held him, Ms. Torivio’s spirits clearly matched her Hopi name, Nuquahynum — “a feather flying high.”

It was the kind of birth that many women in the United States could only wish for. Ms. Torivio had a vaginal birth, even though her previous child had been delivered by Caesarean section. Because of that prior surgery, many hospitals would not have let her even try to give birth vaginally, but would have required another Caesarean.

BILLINGS - Friends said Merry Jane Trewhella, 59, was a dedicated educator and devoted wife, mother and grandmother. They said the world really lost someone special.

As we enter the second half of the school year, many parents hear the clock ticking louder and louder as graduation nears. We hope you have been working closely with your child’s IEP team through high school to ensure that appropriate transition goals have been established and your child's progress toward these goals has been measured and documented.

Earlier this week,  there was an article in The Boston Globe about sensory processing disorder. It stated that a group of researchers, families, and occupational therapists is aggressively lobbying to get sensory processing disorder included in the next Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is currently being drafted.