Activities – Learn to “sign” Help

The sign for "help" is made by closing your right hand. 
Place your right hand on the outstretched palm of your left hand. 
Raise both hands. 
Note: Many people make this sign by placing the left "s" or "a" hand on the right "b" palm.

Note: This sign is directional.
 If you start it near [...]

Activities – Sign Language – “Thank You”

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The sign for "thank you" is made by starting with the fingers of your dominant hand near your lips.  Your hand should be a "flat hand."  Move your hand forward and a bit down in the direction of the person you are thanking.  Smile.

 
 

Note: If [...]

Litigation Advisory: Least Restrictive Environment Placement In New Jersey

You should have received a Notice of Disclosure of Student Records (“Notice”) from your child’s school district recently. It explained that Disability Rights New Jersey, The ARC of NJ, SPAN, and The Education Law Center (the “Plaintiffs”) have filed a lawsuit on behalf of all classified children in New Jersey alleging that too many children [...]

Activities – Spelling – “Bump”

"Bump!" A Spelling Game

 
Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!
What You Need:

paper or pencil
small brown paper bag

What You Do:

Cut paper into 30-40 cards.
With your fifth-grader, write a word from her weekly spelling list on each card. [...]

Norman Doidge the Brain That Changes Itself – Free Resources

 

POSIT SCIENCE JUST RELEASED THIS ABOUT NORMAN DOIDGE AND NEUROPLASTICITY. 
 
I WANTED TO SHARE WITH MY READERS AT ELS4KIDS…
 
ENJOY THE FREE MATERIALS AND LEARN, LEARN, LEARN ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES TO OVERCOME LEARNING DIFFICULTIES!!! 
 
 

Norman Doidge, M.D.,
is a renowned research psychiatrist and author of the bestselling book, The Brain That Changes Itself. He has written over [...]

Educational Dropout Statistics for the U.S.

Don't let your child become a statistic – give your child the gift of learning through brain training today … 

Every 29 seconds another student gives up on school, resulting in more than one million American high school students who drop out every year.
Nearly one-third of all public high school students-and nearly one half of [...]

What Tools Should you use to Defeat Learning Difficulties?

 
What Tools Should You Use to Defeat Learning Difficulties?
 
With everything there is to offer a child, there should never be a feeling of frustration when it comes to a learning problem. There are so many tools, suggestions, and help that you can give your child to help them through these problems.
 
Here are just a few [...]

SAT Vocabulary – Abort

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Visual Dyslexia

Have you heard of visual dyslexia yet?  I just started doing research on this because my daughter, who suffered from a brain injury, has a lot of visual processing issues.  The visual processing issues impact her reading fluency.  She came home from school the other day saying that she wanted to be checked for eye [...]

Co-teaching Integrates Special Education Students in Traditional Classrooms

GateHouse News Service (IL)
Peoria, Illinois school district has 200 + Special Education Teachers!  They have taken the leap from self-contained to co-teaching.  Pairing up with all the active general educators, the district is shedding light on their relatively new teaching model and the benefits to the student population.  Go Peoria!  Read More ….,.. 

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