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March 3rd is World Dyscalculia Day. Celebrate by learning about this disorder, and helping to get the word out! Dyscalculia is a math disability, similar to dyslexia. A lot of people joke about having “math dyslexia” without realizing that it’s quite real. In addition to effecting a person’s number sense and ability to [...] As you may know, I divide my online writing time between my blogs and Squidoo. Squidoo is an online self-publishing platform that allows you to create articles, called “lenses”, without necessarily knowing all the technical stuff you need to know to run a Wordpress blog. Yesterday my lens on math disability, What the Heck is Dysclaculia, [...] Awhile back, I wrote about Google Voice, and how awesome it was as assisstive technology for someone like me with dyscalculia and dysgraphia. If you don’t know Google Voice, it’s a system whereby Google gives you a phone number which you can use to receive voice mail, which gets converted into a transcript, which is sent [...] 18 days into the New Year, and I broke my New Year’s resolution. What is my New Year’s Resolution, you ask? Well, in 2010, I resolved to improve my proprioception. My what? Let me explain. I learned the word “proprioception” from a friend I visited over the holidays. He’s a piano teacher, he’s studied technique extensively, and [...] Yesterday I hung a light in my art studio. Just an ordinary shop light, soft wired, hung from basic ceiling hooks, with daylight corrected bulbs instead of standard florescent tubes. It’s the kind of thing that should take half an hour. 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 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 [...] Google Voice provides voicemail, sent right to your e-mail inbox Google provides me with yet another piece of adaptive technology for my learning disabilities Google, in their never-ending quest for world domination to create technology to make our lives easier, has come out with Google Voice Mail. Google Voice is a free VOIP service that provides [...] 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. [...] It’s not uncommon for me to mention being a musician, and for someone to respond with, “Oh, you must be really good at math. Music is all about math!” I generally respond by nailing that persons head to the table getting unreasonably defensive. I love music; I hate math. [...] |
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