From Australia: "Strength-based parenting is an approach where parents deliberately identify and cultivate positive states, processes and qualities in their children," Professor Waters said. "This style of parenting adds a 'positive filter' to the way a child reacts...
Well, maybe not invincible, but you know what we mean. There’s a new idea circulating among business leaders and entrepreneurs. It’s not mindset or grit, but of course those are important. It’s rejection therapy. Some people think part of the reason for higher than average success of dyslexic people as CEOs and entrepreneurs is that they’re pretty much bullet-proof by the time they survive unrecognized dyslexia and the stressful bullying and teasing years of childhood. So what is the therapy in rejection therapy? It’s one of the oldest ideas in psychology – exposure. Increase resistance or tolerance to rejection by seeking it out. One popularizer of the idea is Jia Jiang, a startup CEO who realized that he hated being rejected when he pitched the […]
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Almost 1 out of every 10 students in public school classrooms are English Language Learners (ELLs). Because dyslexia is also common throughout the world (10-15%), some ELL students are dyslexic. For ELLs, identifying dyslexia can be a complicated process, sorting out the effects of language exposure, bilingualism (or multilingualism), and vocabulary in the 2nd language. Regardless, general education teachers can incorporate many ‘best practices’ that can support all of their students whether they ELL only ELL who are also dyslexic. The challenge for teachers of bilingual students is that they may not have an easy way of knowing how to factor in a student’s prior language instruction and exposure and how that impacts dyslexia per se. Whenever possible, students benefit by academic vocabulary and concept […]
In a report from NeuroImage, researchers reported a different pattern of connectivity as children matured from pre-readers (6 years) to emerging readers (8 years) to readers (12 years). This study provides additional evidence that dyslexic children's path to literacy...
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This past week, researchers published an interesting study that suggested that students should receive explicit instructions about why certain approaches are chosen for certain types of math programs. As it turns out, studies of strategic math instruction seems to especially benefit students with “learning disabilities.” This approach should be valuable to students with dyslexia because rather than having to memorize multiple steps of math problem solving, they learn to recognize the different categories of problems that are presented giving them the opportunity to choose the approach that is best for them. Rather than presenting with a large quantity of math problems that they are left to solve on their own, students are first divided into groups depending on how they initially choose to solve a problem. Rather […]
