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Learning Disabilities Definition

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.

Proprioception Update

This has been sitting in my editing box for more than a month now.  Since it’s Dyscalculia Awareness Month, I figured it’s only appropriate that I dust it off and publish it.

Awhile back I wrote about a painful muscle strain I’d developed in my shoulder and neck area.  Like many dyscalculics, I have a poor [...]

Happy International Dyscalculia Day!

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 [...]

More fun with google voice

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 [...]

Canada’s with me

Rickie Sugars is glad the study proves a link between learning disabilities and poor mental health.

I have no idea when this story ran in the Vancouver Sun, but it’s worth a look.  The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada has released a study on the long-term effects of undiagnosed learning disabilities.  The results?  Lasting psychological harm.

I [...]

The disruptive power of 2

I get confused when there two of something.  That is, when I am trying to remember the difference between two related but distinct concepts.  For instance, there’s the difference between “affect” and “effect” that I wrote about yesterday.  Another example is the difference between “inductive” and “deductive” reasoning, which I must have learned about half [...]