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The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed on this day in 1980. I think it was 1980; everyone’s saying that it’s “21 years old and leaving me to do the math. As a dyscalculic, this often leads to trouble. Anyway. Anniversaries are occasions to stop and reflect on what you’ve accomplished and what remains to be [...] Teresa Lewis, a developmentally disabled adult facing execution Teresa Lewis, a woman with developmental disabilities and dependent personality disorder, is scheduled to die on September 23rd. Teresa Lewis was convicted of taking part in the murder of her husband and stepson in 2002. The other two people convicted in the case, the men who planned and [...] Marlee Matlin speaks at an FCC hearing about internet captioning Marlee Matlin testified recently at an FCC hearing held at Gaudelet University about the need for captioning on Internet video feeds. She was active in the effort twenty years ago to caption all television broadcasts, and also to caption videos. Needless to say, with [...] 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 recently came across the story of Jessica Cox on tagfoot. She’s a dancer, pilot and a double blackbelt in tae kwon do. She was also born with no arms. The first thought I had about this story was about how our society defines disability. Jessica Cox has no arms, so she’s “disabled”. I have all [...] I came across this fascinating post by an Iranian researcher. It turns out music education might significantly improve dyscalculia symptoms: Conclusion: Experimental groups skills in math and Music training group in scores of IQ had show increased. Some methods, such as bilateral brain training and Music training could be used to reduced symptoms of dyscalculia disorder. As [...] 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. [...] There’s a persistent myth out there that learning disabilities are a problem of childhood; as if somehow, our dyslexia or Asperger’s or visual processing disorder just vaporizes upon reaching the age of legal majority. This is not the case. It is also not the case that LD is contained within the four walls of the classroom. [...] OR, “My Mommy Says I’m Special!” At the moment I’m taking a break from filling out a quantitative survey on development in twice-exceptional adults. Twice-exceptional, or 2e, refers to people who are diagnosed with both giftedness and LD. It’s kind of a weird label for kind of a weird condition. As you might have guessed, [...] |
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