Kaleido Scope

Early Signs: How to detect learning disabilities in children

Caroline Richter, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Psychology, says learning disabilities are common, and there are many ways for parents to ...
WebMD

Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NVLD)

What Is Nonverbal Learning Disorder? Nonverbal learning disorder (NVLD), also called nonverbal learning disability (NLD), is a condition that makes it hard to process visual, spatial, and other types ...
WSOC-TV

Is it autism, a learning disability, or both?

If you're autistic, you're more likely to have a learning disability than the general public. In fact, around 30% of autistic people also have a learning disability. But being autistic doesn't mean ...
wsbt

Operation Education: The learning difficulties quietly keeping children from reading well

An “invisible” learning or language difficulty could be what is holding your child back. As schools and states aim to measure and increase student proficiency in foundational skills like reading, ...
Psychology Today

Choosing a School for Children With Learning Disorders

Choosing a school can be a difficult decision for all families. Factors to consider include public or private, convenience, location, finances, and the theory or pedagogy of the school. It’s even more ...
Mid-Day on MSN

Why supporting children with learning disabilities should start early

Dr Pheroza Godrej, art historian, curator, environmentalist, writer, remembers the year 1989 rather vividly. Her daughter had ...
The New York Times

Searching for Struggling Readers, One School at a Time

Two new specialized dyslexia programs will open at Brooklyn public schools as New York focuses more on children with the learning disability. By Troy Closson Anthony Cruz used to complain about going ...
LAist

Dyslexia Is The Most Common Learning Disability For All Students. Why California Doesn’t Screen For It Early

This story features Beeline Reader for enhanced readability. Click to turn the feature on or off. Learn more about this technology here. “One of the greatest contributing factors to lower achievement ...
The Hechinger Report

How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

Tim Odegard, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has personal experience with teachers who did not believe in his intelligence because of a discredited dyslexia screening ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Who is Gus Walz and what is a non-verbal learning disorder?

Midway through Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's keynote address Wednesday night accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for vice president, he turned to his family and said: "Hope, Gus and Gwen, you are ...

Schools are supposed to limit using restraint and seclusion to discipline kids – but parents I spoke with say the practice is wildly misused

“Jessica,” the adoptive mother of a third grade student, was shocked when she discovered that her daughter had spent over 100 hours locked in a room alone at her North Carolina public school. School ...