[ad_1] A North Carolina mother knew her 8-year-old son who has autism had been having difficulty in school—and asked that he receive additional support. Instead, while undergoing a functional behavior assessment, he ended up in a cop car.The boy was ultimately taken by...
[ad_1] From ADHD to dyslexia, diagnoses that affect how people learn often lead to serious academic challenges that can breed frustration and mask students’ true potential. But increasingly, such learning differences are talked about in more flattering terms—usually by adults who either possess...
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[ad_1] Jacquelyn Taylor was diagnosed in elementary school with dyslexia. But it wasn’t until she was 14, entering high school, and struggling with basic math that a combination of her own research, and a professional assessment, provided a dyscalculia diagnosis. She immediately started...
[ad_1] Dyscalculia is at times referred to as “math dyslexia.” In reality, the learning disability that impacts 5 to 8 percent of students can present unique challenges. That’s partly due to how much less well-known dyscalculia is, and how many fewer resources and...
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[ad_1] Roughly 1 in 5 children in the United States are estimated to be neurodivergent, with a range of learning and thinking differences. Those differences have nothing to do with intelligence—but derive from how their brains receive, process, and respond to information. In...
[ad_1] Students with disabilities were more likely to see punitive discipline and less likely to access rigorous coursework during the height of the pandemic. This held true in both traditional public schools and charter schools, showing a consistent pattern of inequities even in...
[ad_1] Many teachers don’t receive training in their teacher-preparation programs on common learning differences, say experts. And that can leave teachers feeling uncertain about how to best support students in their classrooms who have dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia. Dyslexia affects the ability to...