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Tero Toivanen

Despite Serious Learning Disabilities, Great Falls Teen Fulfills College Dream - washin... - 0 views

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  • He had to work hard. He often woke up early to study before school and studied for hours in the evening. He went to summer school and retook tests.
  • He repeated kindergarten, then first grade, until he was in the same grade as his younger sister. But he continued to lag far behind his peers. By the time he reached sixth grade, he was still reading on a first- or second-grade level.
  • Thaller's story is familiar to many students with learning disabilities who must work two or three times harder than their classmates, often with less results.
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  • On Monday morning, he joined his younger sister, Rachel, on a stage at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall and became a graduate of one of the nation's top high schools.
  • Low scores on cognitive tests prompted many medical professionals and educators to say it would be impossible for Thaller to ever attend college. Many suggested he pursue a diploma with fewer requirements or transfer to a special school with a less academic focus.
  • A major breakthrough came in middle school. Thaller's mother would read him chapters from the Harry Potter series at night. He was so impatient for her to get to the next chapter that he started reading ahead, pushing himself to understand the vocabulary and follow the story.
  • Tero Toivanen on 21 Jun 09
     
    He had to work hard. He often woke up early to study before school and studied for hours in the evening. He went to summer school and retook tests.
Peggy George

LD OnLine :: Helping Your Child with Organization and Study Skills - 0 views

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  • Peggy George on 21 Sep 08
     
    This article provides some great suggestions for teaching these important skills. I first heard about the article on a great teacher podcast by Todd Watson, LD Resource teacher in Peoria District, AZ. Listen to his podcast--it's a wonderful way to communicate with his parents--positive, informative, encouraging and educational! Podcast #1 for 08-09: http://applepodcast.peoriaud.k12.az.us:16080/weblog/twatson/
  • Peggy George on 21 Sep 08
     
    Excellent, practical suggestions for helping students learn organization and study skills. Targeted for LD students but valuable for all students.
Cara Whitehead

Summer Program - 1 views

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  • Cara Whitehead on 12 May 13
     
    VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.
Kathy Malsbenden

Reading Plus :: Visagraph - 2 views

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  • Kathy Malsbenden on 27 Oct 10
     
    The Visagraph®, an eye-movement recording device, is the result of more than 80 years of foundational studies in conjunction with leading reading research.
Kathleen N

Assistive Technology Assessment: A Comparative Analysis of Five Models - 0 views

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  • Kathleen N on 13 Dec 09
     
    The purpose of this paper is to describe and compare five models of AT assessment: Matching Person and Technology, Lifespace Access Profile, SETT, Education Tech Points, and Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative Barbara E. Bromley, Ph.D. College of Education and Integrative Studies Cal Poly Pomona
karen Janowski

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  • karen Janowski on 03 Apr 10
     
    study skill tool - helps you learn and remember using cognitive and memory research fascinating site
Christine Southard

Remember The Milk: Online to do list and task management - 0 views

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  • Christine Southard on 01 Jul 09
     
    Use this tool for study skills
The0d0re Shatagin

Reading Like A Historian | Stanford History Education Group - 5 views

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Amy Chayefsky

PBIS Az : Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports - 7 views

Reflect on your classroom culture and environment; consider antecedents leading up to a students disruptions, can these two forces be aligned to improve the quality of time spent together? This si...

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Tero Toivanen

New Nicaraguan sign language shows how language affects thought | Not Exactly Rocket Sc... - 2 views

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  • In the 1970s, a group of deaf Nicaraguan schoolchildren invented a new language.
  • It was the first time that deaf people from all over the country could gather in large numbers and through their interactions – in the schoolyard and the bus – Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) spontaneously came into being.
  • NSL is not a direct translation of Spanish – it is a language in its own right, complete with its own grammar and vocabulary.
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  • Its child inventors created it naturally by combining and adding to gestures that they had used at home. Gradually, the language became more regular, more complex and faster. Ever since, NSL has been a goldmine for scientists, providing an unparalleled opportunity to study the emergence of a new language.
  • those who learned NSL before it developed specific gestures for left and right perform more poorly on a spatial awareness test than children who grew up knowing how to sign those terms.
  • The idea that language affects thought isn’t new. It’s encapsulated by the ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’, which suggests that differences in the languages we speak affect the way we think and behave.
  • Tero Toivanen on 27 Jun 10
     
    "...as human language envolved, our mental ablities became increasingly entwined with linguistic devices."
Tero Toivanen

Study: Inexpensive Games Improve Children's Reasoning Ability » Spotlight - 2 views

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  • Perhaps the most important finding in Bunge’s data is that the training helped the neediest kids the most. The farther down a child started on the rankings, the quicker and greater was his cognitive improvement. This is extremely rare in education interventions. Usually, smart kids benefit most, and the kids who struggle at the beginning only fall farther behind.
  • Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 09
     
    Perhaps the most important finding in Bunge's data is that the training helped the neediest kids the most. The farther down a child started on the rankings, the quicker and greater was his cognitive improvement. This is extremely rare in education interventions. Usually, smart kids benefit most, and the kids who struggle at the beginning only fall farther behind.
Tero Toivanen

Music Improves Brain Function -- Signs of the Times News - 2 views

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  • Harvard University researcher Gottfried Schlaug has also studied the cognitive effects of musical training. Schlaug and his colleagues found a correlation between early-childhood training in music and enhanced motor and auditory skills as well as improvements in verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.
  • "[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits."
  • Shahin said that when a person listens to sounds over and over, especially for something as harmonic or meaningful as music and speech, the appropriate neurons get reinforced in responding preferentially to those sounds compared to other sounds.
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  • Shahin's main findings are that the changes triggered by listening to musical sound increases with age and the greatest increase occur between age 10 and 13. This most likely indicates this as being a sensitive period for music and speech acquisition.
  • Tero Toivanen on 25 Jan 10
     
    "[The findings] suggest that a music intervention that strengthens the basic auditory music perception skills of children with dyslexia may also remediate some of their language deficits."
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Futurist Speaker - 1 views

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  • futuristspeaker on 06 Dec 18
     
    Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, and Google's top rated Futurist Speaker. Unlike most speakers, Thomas works closely with his Board of Visionaries to develop original research studies. This enables him to speak on unusual topics and translate trends into unique business opportunities.
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