20 hours ago by cb

I do feel obliged to update on the Alton Centre run by Active Care - a subsidiary of Southern Cross - just as I have been following the story. Active Care won their appeal against closure yesterday and it is reported in the local Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph. It reports On Friday the Care Stan ...

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2 days ago by Pablo Rivera

Some language learning methods feature a bitesize Spanish section that helps students revise GCSE Spanish and test themselves, Spanish for work, and a useful test to ascertain at which level the user should study. Spanish Steps is a self-contained online course for beginners, while the television co ...

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4 days ago by prestoncoleman

On March 7, radio talk host Neal Boortz used his nationally-syndicated program to publicly humiliate a mentally disabled nine-year-old boy who lives near Gainesville, Georgia. Boortz repeatedly played audiotape of the child’s speech, ridiculed the way he talks, said he “sounds as dumb as a stump,” a ...

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4 days ago by staff

Your child has just completed a task that so many thought they never would, they finished high school, and graduated. If your child has a learning disability, he or she have surpassed the expected outcome, and is looking for more. This is a wonderful thing, for them as people with a disability, and ...

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7 days ago by Mary

Your child may have normal vision and intelligence but can’t seem to make sense of anything he reads. If he complains that the letters on the page “won’t stay still,” he may be suffering from dyslexia, a severe reading disorder. Dyslexia affects perception, cognitive abilities and language. Someone ...

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9 days ago by sweetmarzipan

Well not really… It’s actually kind of annoying. I’ve been dyslexic all of my life (obviously), but didn’t know it until several years ago. It was never severe enough for it to be blatently obvious. Plus when you’re a kid who doesn’t know any better, you don’t realise that what you’re going through ...

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9 days ago by ldpodcast

All morning, I have been on twitter, waiting to find out who John McCain would pick as his Vice Presidential running mate. Sarah Palin’s name was floated early, in advance of the announcement, and I checked out her bio on Wikipedia. One thing stuck out immediately for me- she has a baby, born in Apr ...

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10 days ago by cb

Of course when we said goodbye to Beijing at the closing of the Olympic Games, last week, it wasn’t really goodbye. Next week, the Paralympics start. I expect there to be a fair amount of coverage and will follow with interest - just as I discovered a previously dormant interest in Synchronised High ...

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11 days ago by superfunlibrary

I can’t resist a good story. If I could read morning, day and night, I would. Oddly enough, the mechanics of reading were difficult for me to master. My reading speed was, and still is, far below average. Most kids with these difficulties grow to hate reading, but for whatever reason, I was a persis ...

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15 days ago by staff

The IEP, or the Individualized Educational Program, is a contract that makes sure that all children who are disabled no matter how severe would get free appropriate public education. This will be provided at the expense of the government, even if there has to be adaptations and services provided for ...

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