Completing My Degree with AI and ChatGPT

Completing My Degree with AI and ChatGPT

by | Jan 19, 2024 | , , , , ,

    Recently, I spoke with dyslexic entrepreneur Stan Gloss, who returned to higher education to finish a degree in Educational Leadership. Stan’s full interview will be featured in an upcoming issue in our Premium magazine. What Stan shares is his workflow for conducting research and writing his dissertation for his degree. Because of the text-based burdens of researching and writing a dissertation, many dyslexic students may find themselves halted in “ABD” or All But the Dissertation limbo. Stan found an answer to this and won his university’s approval to use these technologies in his graduate work.      

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Severe Dyslexia Reading [Premium]

Severe Dyslexia Reading [Premium]

by | Dec 15, 2023 | , , , , ,

Q: My daughter is severely dyslexic and is having trouble making progress reading. She is homeschooled. How can I help? A: Ideally, the best person to provide specific information about your student’s dyslexia is the professional who performed a comprehensive assessment. The following information is not specific to your daughter, but more general information in the hopes some of it may be helpful to you. Many severely dyslexic children have trouble perceiving or remembering sounds, sound-letter associations, or the letters that comprise the different spellings of words. If a student has significant working memory limitations, she or he may also have to learn in little bits which may add to the time words are mastered. RE-LEARNING AGAIN AND AGAIN If the problem is that a […]

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Teaching Math with Visual Models [Premium]

Teaching Math with Visual Models [Premium]

by | Dec 13, 2023 | , , ,

One way to teach to students’ strengths is to build on nonverbal reasoning and experimential – multisensory learning strengths in math. What does that mean? It means not being in a hurry to have students work through math problems before a strong foundational understanding and technical math meanings are established, and building on math reasoning before diving into math problem-solving involving symbols and technical language. Room to Discover has an excellent post on Visual Models. With five representations of mathematical ideas, why is there so much focus on verbal and symbolic work?     The creator of Room to Discover also runs workshops and publishes manipulatives and other resources to his store. The Room to Discover site focuses on graphic representations – but a related […]

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Asynchronous Development [Premium]

Asynchronous Development [Premium]

by | Dec 10, 2023 | , , , , ,

Asynchronous development refers to an unevenness in development which may include wide differences in various aspects of cognition, physical development, and emotional development. The unevenness in these different aspects of development can create paradoxes (being ahead in some abilities as well as behind) and opportunities as well as stress. Asynchronous development was first introduced in the academic and educational literature in the context of gifted children – children who showed wide discrepancies between strengths and weaknesses and who were sometimes referred to as being “twice exceptional”.     In the figure below, an example of score variations is seen in a gifted student with dyslexia. Where the standard scaled score for age is 100, this student had strengths in verbal comprehension with a score of […]

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Should I Help with Homework? [Premium]

Should I Help with Homework? [Premium]

by | Dec 7, 2023 | , , , , , , , ,

“His mother had read everything to him and in medical school his wife was reading aloud all books and references…there was some opposition to his continuance in medical school on the part of the dean and one other faculty member, but the opposition subsided… After his graduation a report came from a distant medical school hospital stating that this man was the best intern they had had for some time. He passed his American boards in internal medicine and became the head of a group practice clinic in a large city…” — Lloyd Thompson, Reading Disability Should you help with homework? The answer is YES. There is a qualifier on that – you should help but only to the point that you’re helping your student […]

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Chat with College Coach Kara Matejka

Chat with College Coach Kara Matejka

by | Nov 26, 2023 | , , , ,

  “It is incredibly common for students to get to college and just question everything. That’s when all the wheels fall off…What am I even doing here? ” — Kara Matejka, College Coach When all the excitement of arriving at college for the first time, getting to know roommates and starting your courses begins to die down, some students may suddenly discover they are over their heads with college classes. Away from the familiar supports of home and high school, they need to find new supports and self advocate…. (almost continuously) for themselves. Good thing there are student success tutors like Kara Matejka. Kara most recently has worked as a Student Coach or Advisor at Stanford University’s Office of Accessible Education. Kara shared some of […]

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My Child Won’t Go to School: What to Do About School Avoidance

My Child Won’t Go to School: What to Do About School Avoidance

by | Nov 26, 2023 | , , , , , ,

  By Dr. Dan Peters of Summit Center “Things were fine last year and now he wakes up with a stomachache and says he doesn’t want to go to school. It takes me forever to get him out the door. We are often late. He ends up screaming at me and telling me I am the worst parent ever! I end up yelling at him and almost have to pull him out of the car. He leaves upset and I feel upset, worried, and angry. Why is this happening!?” If it sounds like I was in your car this morning, that is because this situation is very common with children — both with those I work and those I parent. On the outside, a child’s […]

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Building on Strengths in Math

Building on Strengths in Math

by | Nov 10, 2023 | , ,

Up to 70% of dyslexic people also have dyscalculia (specific math disability), although specific math supports or interventions are rarely a part of public school IEPs or 504’s. Part of the reason there is less support for math among dyslexic students in the US is that the International Dyslexia Association and National Institute of Health definitions do not mention math, whereas other definitions of dyslexia such as the one from the British Dyslexia Association do. The consequence of narrow definitions of dyslexia, is that some dyslexia specialists may focus almost exclusively on reading (and to a less extent writing), and consequently neglect supports for dyslexic students in math, organization, foreign language learning, and other important aspects of school. But math is important for all aspects […]

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Helping Your Student with Intensity [Premium]

Helping Your Student with Intensity [Premium]

by | Nov 8, 2023 | , , , , ,

“Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation. “ — Ross Greene, The Explosive Child The difference between the experience of one student and his or her dyslexia can vary a great deal depending on temperament. In psychology, temperament refers to consistent differences in emotional disposition and behavior that are biologically-based and relatively consistent over time. Temperament is part of a person’s personality, which also includes intelligence, humor, interests, and talents. Among the various temperamental differences, certain “difficult temperamental traits” may make some school experiences (like remediation or pull-out) difficult to accept. Examples of difficult temperamental traits include: negative responses to new people or situations, slowness to […]

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AI Voices Make Listening Easy

AI Voices Make Listening Easy

by | Nov 7, 2023 | , , , , ,

  With AI, artificial voices for book reading are getting better. People who struggled with electronic voices in the past, may find themselves pleasantly surprised as AI-voices develop more natural voice pauses and even emotional tones that make listening more enjoyable and easier to keep in mind. The latest addition to free AI-read audiobooks include thousands of books in Project Gutenberg’s Open Audiobook Collection thanks to Project Gutenberg, Microsoft, and MIT. You can listen to the books on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. If you’re new to electronic voices, check these out – they’re quite good. One of the benefits of getting used to these voices is that they’re very predictable once you get used to them (compared to human readers) and then it […]

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Redefining Dyslexia [Premium]

Redefining Dyslexia [Premium]

by | Nov 6, 2023 | , , , , , ,

In the past year, there have been some remarkable papers published in the field of dyslexia. By and large, the changes seem to be good news and more inclusive of the diverse ways that dyslexia presents – including gifted individuals with dyslexia. But change is likely to be messy – and schools and educational and research groups are likely to different and present different information to students and their families. THE PENDULUM SWINGS AGAIN ON DISCREPANCY Although the earliest professional accounts about dyslexia recognized the unexpected connection of high intelligence with difficulties in reading, writing, and spelling, the dyslexia field has been involved in many warring opinions about whether cognitive tests are worthwhile. Without pointing fingers, many researchers and educational leaders over the years questioned […]

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