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Typeface Invented to Aid Readers with Dyslexia
For readers with dyslexia, a common symptom is the rotation and transposition of letters. A lowercase b is sometimes mistaken as a lowercase d. This problem does not happen when using uppercase versions of the same letters, because an uppercase B does not resemble an uppercase D visually. Lowercase p is sometimes seen as a lowercase q ... Read More
Dyslexia in the General Education Classroom
By Kelli Sandman-Hurley, Ed.D. Original Source: Edutopia Originally posted October 23, 2014 The following passage is about dyslexia. I want you to assume that I will be asking you a comprehension question or two when you are done. You have one minute. Go! The bottob line it thit it doet exitt, ... Read More
Coding for Kids Revisited
By Anna Adam and Helen Mowers Original Source: Edutopia Originally posted December 30, 2014 While it feels like we just wrote 7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills, it's been a year, and as we know, that’s a couple of lifetimes in the technology world! Over the past year, we've discovered even ... Read More
What are Executive Functions?
Executive Function Coaching is at the forefront of many new discussions surrounding the best methods to help young people thrive in (and out of) the classroom. The reason why Executive Function is so talked about right now is because we have more brain research than ever before and we understand how executive ... Read More
In Favor of Thinking Against
Those ancient Greeks bequeathed such bounty to modern civilization—grape leaves, flowing muumuus, and a little thing called democracy, to name a few—but their flair for rhetoric and argument remains one of their greatest contributions. And the cornerstone of cementing that legacy came not just by arguing in favor of their ... Read More