Special Needs Tweets of the Day 10/22/13

1. The dyslexic lecturer: 'making mistakes shows my human side'

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/oct/18/dyslexic-university-lecturer-judith-williams?utm_content=buffer80bd4&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Buffer 

2. Interactive LD Checklist

http://www.ncld.org/learning-disability-resources/checklists-worksheets/interactive-ld-checklist 

3. "Different Kinds of Minds" a free public lecture by Dr. Temple Grandin

http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/8839281529 

4. Reading Difficulties and Solutions for Passage-Based Reading on the SAT

http://www.ldonline.org/article/Reading_Difficulties_and_Solutions_for_Passage-Based_Reading_on_the_SAT?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=LDSocialMedia 

5. How to Help a Child With Weak Working Memory

http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/executive-function-disorders/how-to-help-child-with-weak-working-memory 

6. Your Response-to-Intervention (RTI) Questions Answered

http://www.ncld.org/students-disabilities/rti-parent-school-relationship/response-to-intervention-faqs-questions-answered 

6. Do I Have to Sign My Child’s IEP?

http://www.ncld.org/students-disabilities/iep-504-plan/do-i-have-to-sign-iep 

7. 10 tips on How Parents Can Help their Child Organize for School

 http://www.specialeducationadvisor.com/10-tips-on-how-parents-can-help-their-child-organize-for-school/?fb_action_ids=10200871872338974&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%2210200871872338974%22%3A641114462594992}&action_type_map={%2210200871872338974%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map=[]

 

 

Shaping Our Brains Tweets of the Day 5/15/13

Kathleen Lanese, mother of Brendan and Kevin.

1. My Favorite Word is Mama

http://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2013/05/12/my-favorite-word-mama?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AutismSpeaksBlog+%28Autism+Speaks+|+Official+Blog%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

2. College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182599588/college-divestment-campaigns-creating-passionate-environmentalists?ft=1&f=1013 

3. After The Lesson, Your Brain Keeps Processing What You’ve Learned

http://anniemurphypaul.com/2013/04/after-the-lesson-is-over-your-brain-keeps-processing-what-youve-learned/ 

4. Harvard Wants to Know: How Does the Act of Making Shape Kids’ Brains?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/harvard-wants-to-know-how-does-making-shape-kids-brains/

5. Why Do We Have to Write Today?

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/why-we-have-to-write-todd-finley 

6. Interactive LD Checklist

http://www.ncld.org/learning-disability-resources/checklists-worksheets/interactive-ld-checklist 

7. Higher Order Questions: A Path to Deeper Learning

Grades 6-8, ELA, Literature

Common Core Standards: ELA.RL.6.1 ELA.RL.6.5 ELA.SL.6.1c 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-higher-order-thinking-skills 

These are some great Sixth graders discussing literature.