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I haven’t been posting a lot lately. Partly this is because of the amount of time I’ve had to spend reading job listings, filling out applications, tweaking resumes, and trying to write cover letters that aren’t don’t sound like total BS. Partly, it’s because I’ve just been too depressed. I feel like if I write about [...] Dyscalculics are no good with numbers. That’s pretty much the definition of dyscalculia. But in addition to having extreme difficulty with math, and all the accounting problems implied therein, we also tend to have larger troubles with the world of finance. We’re prone to “short term, not long term” financial thinking, and we “fail to [...] 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. Over at the Dyscalculia Forum, we got to talking about World Dyscalculia Day. World Dyscalculia Day, which falls on March 3rd (3/3, so we don’t get confused) has been a great thing — since 2008, people have made videos, written articles, created t-shirts, and gotten the word out to their local schools, districts, and universities [...] Having decided that a single day is not enough to get the word out about dysclaculia, some of us at the dyscalculia forum have decided to declare March to be Dyscalclulia Awareness Month. This will allow more flexibility for staging events, especially for students at college or university, since some of them are already on [...] 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. 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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