|
||||||
|
The Americans with Disabilities Act turns 20 today! Thanks to the ADA, Americans with disabilities enjoy better access to buildings, transportation, telecommunication, employment, and education. It paved the way for IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which enabled me to graduate from college. There’s still a long way to go before we as a society [...] Dyscalculics are no good with numbers. That’s pretty much the definition of dyscalculia. But in addition to having extreme difficulty with math, and all the accounting problems implied therein, we also tend to have larger troubles with the world of finance. We’re prone to “short term, not long term” financial thinking, and we “fail to [...] Princeton freshman Diane Metcalf-Leggette is suing the University for their refusal to accommodate her learning disabilities by granting her extra time to take exams. The student suffers from several learning disabilities that effect her visual and language processing ability, requiring her to check and re-check her work several times while she’s writing. Metcalf-Leggette was [...] Once again, I need to say that Google Voice rocks. I love getting transcripts of voice mail as e-mail and SMS. I hate answering the phone, because it’s such an interruption, and because if I need to write anything down I have to find my computer and type it up somewhere … so it’s ten [...] I hang out on the Dyscalculia Forum, and there are frequent new member posts from adults wondering if they have LD. They go something like this: I had no idea this condition existed, but when I read the definition on this forum it sounded just like me! I’ve been terrible at math my whole life. [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2012 AddaptAbilities - All Rights Reserved;
|
||||||
Talk To Me