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Twisted Language dysgraphia editing skills expressive language fine motor skills following directions listening skills poor handwriting receptive language spelling word fluency Mar 12, 2022

Oral and Written Language activities can greatly impact comprehension, fluency, and other aspects of reading. The following checklists are guides to the tasks that are common in those areas which point to deficits and which may need more comprehensive evaluation and /or remediation.

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Dyscalculia dyscalculia math learning disability Mar 05, 2022

Buried by the Numbers

Dyscalculia is a learning disability in which a child has  trouble with math at many levels. Dyscalculia is NOT math anxiety, it is the inability to understand the concepts and or the functions of math and number relationships. They will often struggle with key concepts...

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Dyslexia adhd dyslexia fluency language deficit memory deficits orton gillingham phonological component spelling structured literacy Feb 26, 2022

DYSLEXIA - DEVELOPMENTAL READING DISORDER

A Language-Based Learning Disability.

“Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These...

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Savant or Splinter Skill hyperlexia savant splinter skill Feb 18, 2022

So What is Hyperlexia?

There are some children who can read or decode words far beyond their understanding. In fact, at first glance, some of these children might be considered savants when what you generally have is a splinter skill called hyperlexia. It is often associated with ASD (autism...

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Goal: Proficient Independent Reader comprehension listening comprehension pseudoword decoding reading comprehension Feb 05, 2022

Figuring Out How to HELP!

As we continue our quest to identify all the potential roadblocks to reading success we come to our last two major categories of pseudoword decoding and comprehension. At first glance, pseudoword decoding really does look like nonsense. It is that nonsense however that...

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Finding Roadblocks to Reading Success listening skills reading assessment Jan 28, 2022

When I first started becoming aware of the many mechanisms that have to be in place and functional in order to read, I really thought it was pretty amazing that anyone ever learns how to read let alone become proficient. Frequently, we accept the evaluations that school districts give us because...

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To Read or Not to Read dyslexia reading reading disability Jan 21, 2022

Checklist Indicating Need for Reading Evaluation

When companies that build and maintain prisons project what the needs will be in 10-15 years they just look at state reading scores from third grade and that gives them a fairly accurate number of inmates on the way to the facility. Truth is...

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Eye of the Advocate advocate bully bullying Jan 01, 2022

The Advocate's Eye and the Open Heart

On this day of the New Year I would like to focus on what happens when someone finally develops the eye of an advocate.  What does that really mean and does that process of developing the Eye of an advocate have any impact on your life and if it does...

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Optic Antics functional vision ocular motility tracking visual acuity Dec 18, 2021

The Eyes Can Be Deceiving

My guess is that you did not notice that the words in the picture are not mirror images but the quite different words of Teach and Learn. This was an intentional optical illusion. Unfortunately, 25% off ALL children have a vision problem significant enough to affect...

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Disability Identification cross training ld identification Dec 11, 2021

Getting Lost in LD

You get the call from the parent but they are not sure whether they want to hire an advocate or a lawyer. All they know is that their child is not doing well in school and something has to change. Frustration, anger and confusion seem to be a constant state of affairs and no...

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Transformation Dec 04, 2021

You Called?

The goal of Education Advocacy is to give a child true access to their education through the development of a functional IEP that has functional goals supported by appropriate SDIs, clinical interventions, and research-based programming. This is what creates transformation for the...

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Tips 4 Teens with IEP's - HS vs College Nov 27, 2021

High School to College - IEPs are not 504s

The transition from high school to college is usually difficult for most teens because many of the rules have changed. In addition, there are no nagging adults demanding that you follow through, finish your work or go to class. It all sounds wonderful...

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