I don’t know why, but I love math jokes. I laughed at all the math jokes in Futurama, even though they were written by PhD math geeks and even my husband (who has been known to do math in his sleep. For real) didn’t get most of them. Maybe it’s that whole thing where humor [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] Yesterday at <a href=”http://www.wellorderedchaos.addaptabilities.com/?p=318″>Well-Ordered Chaos</a> I blogged about heading out the door, needing to catch a train, and realizing literally at the last minute that I needed to set out donations for a pick-up. Even though I was successful — I set everything out, taped signs to it, and even made my train — I [...] 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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