Once you decide to home school, the next item on your mind might be “What am I going to use to home school?” Neither one of these scenarios needs to be the case when choosing home school curriculum and books. Check the learning style resources at my websites. Knowing your child’s learning style can save [...]
For most of us, when we hear the word education, it automatically creates a mental image of school and books and papers and we instantly associate the term with school. For many home educators, this would be an accurate image for what homeschooling is for them – school at home. What we do is not [...]
Hopefully, your college experience was that of learning – both about life and your chosen field. That’s what your college experience should be about – gaining independence and learning and figuring out your life’s path. Traditionally, your college experience is four years long and you live on campus. Perhaps your college experience was not traditional. [...]
Learning Disabilities affect people in all walks of life each and every day. These disorders can include dyslexia (impairment of ability to recognize and comprehend written words), dyscalculia (impairment of ability to solve mathematics problems), dysgraphia (inability to write), dyspraxia (motor skill coordination problems), and auditory and visual process disorders (difficulty understanding language or images). [...]
You can never be too educated but you can always be under qualified. Did it ever happen to you that you were passed for a job or, worse, a promotion, because you were not quiet qualified for the job or because someone else was overqualified for the same and, therefore, would perform it better. There [...]
Students can have a difficult enough time trying to function and essentially excel in school under normal circumstances. But when it has been determined that the student has a learning disability, success in school can be that much more difficult. Normally, students with learning disabilities receive extra attention in school. However, there are times when [...]
The term learning disability (LD) refers to a group of disorders that affect a broad range of academic and functional skills including the ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason and organize information. A learning disability is not indicative of low intelligence. People with learning disabilities sometimes have difficulty achieving at their intellectual level [...]
Learning Disabilities tend to stay for life. Remedial teaching teaches children “coping skills” so that the child is able to function despite the learning disabilities. As a learning-disabled child grows, he becomes more aware of his shortcomings and this causes frustration. Added to this is the fact that as children grow, they become less accepting. [...]
Learning disabilities are problems that affect the brain’s ability to receive, process, analyze, or store information. The most common and best-known verbal learning disability is dyslexia, which causes people to have trouble recognizing or processing letters and the sounds associated with them. Learning disabilities are present in at least 10 percent of the population.Although the [...]
It is very common to have a learning disability together with ADHD. Research shows that thirty percent of people diagnosed with ADHD also have a learning disability. Beyond learning disabilities, over fifty percent of individuals suffering from ADHD have some other type of brain-based disorder; this explains why depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder and other [...]