I spend a few hours this afternoon struggling to finish an article about learning disabilities — definitions, terminology, testing, all that fun stuff. You can check it out here.
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Want fries with that? A few weeks back, I wrote about the temptations of graduate school for adults with learning disabilities — particularly those of us who are “twice-exceptional”. If you’re great at a certain subject, if you enjoy it, if you get validation from your professors in that area, why not consider a PhD [...] Someone pointed recently pointed me toward this article, written about a year ago by Thomas H. Benton, called Graduate School In The Humanities: Just Don’t Go. Benton, himself a college professor, warns that a humanities degree is an investment that’s not worth the risk. PhD’s spend an average of ten years (and tens of thousands [...] I just learned that today is Special Education Day. The first federal special education bill was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on December 2nd, 1975, in order to support state and local jurisdictions in “protecting the rights of, meeting the individual needs of, and improving the results for infants, toddlers, children and youths with [...] 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 [...] |
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