When trying to find a good school for a child with learning disabilities (particularly NVLD), one decision is mainstream vs. special education. I talked about that in an earlier post: Drowning in the Mainstream. But another decision, particularly if you decide against special education, is the size of the school. Clearly, schools vary in size […]
I never saw an executive function
January 6, 2017 by 4 Comments
In the field of learning disabilities there is a lot of talk about executive function. The NCLD has a whole page about it. It involves Executive function is a set of mental processes that helps connect past experience with present action. People use it to perform activities such as planning, organizing, strategizing, paying attention to […]
On learning from examples for NVLD kids
January 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
We often expect kids to learn from examples. In a text book, this might include Looking at the example Reading the instructions and Doing the same in an exercise That might seem straightforward to NT adults, but it can be confusing to NVLD people, particularly younger ones but even adults
Teachers: Don’t make the child the bearer of bad news
November 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Poor report cards, requests for a meeting, notices of problems in the classroom …. These happen. Sometimes, teachers need to communicate bad news to parents. Communication is good, even if it’s about problems. But, all too often, the children have to take the bad news home to their parents. This is a bad idea. […]
Stress makes everything worse: But what is stress?
October 14, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Does your kid sometimes seem to react one way to something and then, another time, react totally differently? Does a particular thing sometimes delight her or, at least, not bother her and other times cause a meltdown? Does this puzzle you? Well, a lot of you NT people (maybe all …) are exactly the same […]
Adventures in NLD Land: Hotel Corridors
October 5, 2016 by 1 Comment
I was away over the weekend and stayed in a large hotel. Like most such places, the rooms were all along long corridors. I think I went to my room (and out again) 6 times or so over the weekend. And …. I never knew which way to go! Each time I went to my […]
Friendship and the 2E child
September 12, 2016 by 2 Comments
CAVEAT: I am not a trained therapist. This is not professional advice. I do have a degree in special ed, but it’s been 30 years since I took those courses. This is just my opinion based on my life and observation. It may seem odd for me to be writing about friendship because – […]
Taboo
September 11, 2016 by 2 Comments
On Quora someone asked if people with Asperger’s understand the word “Taboo”. I gave a brief answer there, but I thought I’d follow it up here, especially because I have NVLD, not AS.
Praise your kids for what they’re bad at
September 9, 2016 by 3 Comments
What is Peter on about now? Praise your kids for what they’re bad at? OK, not their bad behavior “Good job yelling at Mommy!” no – that’s not what I mean at all. But our LD kids get so little praise. And they try so hard. And, for our 2E kids, it’s even worse.
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