Learning Disability: Dyslexia, Aphasia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Developmental dyspraxia, Asperger syndrome, Auditory processing disorder, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Fuzzbuzz
Desicritics (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I stood at the ATM machine and fumbled. I had forgotten the numbers. There was a dude talking away on his cell phone next to the other ATM machine. I fed in the numbers and the ICICI machine showed a grumpy face. I got stressed and I had brain freeze. Numbers danced before my eyes and I felt a surge of panic drown my lungs and bank against the back of throat demanding a scream and I blinked. My disability...
I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
In clearing out some boxes stuff with personal papers belonging to my family, I found something my mum must have salvaged and saved, a few years back. She was like that; I'd bin some bit of homework--an essay, a poem, a play, whatever...she'd find it and squirrel it away with her other little momentos of me and my sister. I have this one totally embarrassing photograph taken of me when I was just a...
Posted Notes (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
As some of you know I have a few quirks - Most are slightly annoying. Dyscalculia and Hemophobia are two I’ve mentioned before. I’ve several others best glossed over but one of late has caused a few problems. My affianced is finding it tricky. She doesn’t know how to respond. The title’s the thing - It’s hard to explain. In short I’m not always there. I disconnect...
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Well at least it will give me and the bloke from No.11 a break - for the duration of the strike anyway -from handing each other our mail, after our dyscalculia suffering postman who gets the numbers 1 and 11 confused yet again.
I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
I have mentioned before, that I have a learning disability, a maths disability, called dyscalculia. I went for years, genuinely thinking I was stupid, cos' I couldn't even do basic division or algebra. Then, bless her, a college professor who had training in working with children with learning disabilities, recognized my "symptoms," and arranged for me to get testing. Then, a second professor,...
I Speak of Dreams (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Brian Butterworth, who is a professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, participated in a study last year that indicates that dyscalculia may be more common than dyslexia. The study appears not to have been published, but found that in...
I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
Maaan. This sucks. Last week, I got robbed of $75, then had to deal with the "new job" at work, that was literally dropped into our laps at the last possible minute. Saturday, I'd pedaled to the laundromat with a couple of loads of dirty's, then came home, chained up my bike (I don't have a lock, but I clip it to a post with a dog tie-out chain.) It's only a rusty old $5 bike, I figured it...
I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks (Free subscription) | 07/26/2009
A - Age: 48+ B - Bed type/colour/style: That's a weird question. Single bed, white, about 75 years old, wood with solid decorative headboard with finials. C - Chore you hate: All of them...but most especially cleaning the shower stall, that hurts my back a bit. D - Dogs' names: I've not had a dog in years. But, family dogs, in order, since the mid 1970's: Capone--mixed breed puppy given to my sister,...
I Speak of Dreams (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Why some people can't put two and two together - science-in-society - 24 January 2009 - New Scientist. Why some people can't put two and two together JILL, 19, from Michigan, wants to go to university to read political science....
Emerald Bile (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
New, palatable president of America, Mr Obama, and highly unpopular British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, have been awfully quiet about Iran and its elections, whilst news agencies and wild-eyed bloggers have been yapping on and on and on about it: "Let's have a nice moderate leader for those Iranians," they say. "Get rid of that one with the big smile - we hate him, he's a loony"....
Alien Life (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Abodes - A switch from predominantly undersea volcanoes to a mix of undersea and terrestrial ones shifted the Earth's atmosphere from devoid of oxygen to one with free oxygen, according to geologists. See article . Note: This article is from 2007....
Bloggin on down the Rogue (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
...or is his teleprompter defective? From the VDare.com Blog... http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/06/04/can-obama-count/ 4 June 2009 Can Obama count? [ Patrick Cleburne ] @ 4:52 pm [ Email author ] [Email this article] There is considerable puzzlement in the Blogosphere (but not of course in the MSM ) as to how President Obama could possibly believe that America is “…one of the largest...
I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks (Free subscription) | 05/22/2009
I've only sort of been following stories about the Hadron Collider...the one that everyone involved denies that it blew up last year. They are soldiering on though, apparently. Even though I do have dyscalculia, that doesn't mean math doesn't interest me...in fact, I liked algebra, even tho' my disability means it's impossible for me to do it...and, what people like Tesla in the past, and these gents...
Esotericoclast (Free subscription) | 04/26/2009
Number Blindness Clock: [via link]Continuing with the number blindness (dyscalculia) theme. Here is a clock that does not have numbers but does require an intact visuospatial ability.Googlemark - number blindness clock
Esotericoclast (Free subscription) | 04/26/2009
As Fast As I Can [by Thomas De Santis]An excellent and practical idea by Thomas De Santis. The condition known as dyscalculia (number blindness) is more common than dyslexia (word blindness). Recent research suggests that between 3 and 6 per cent of children suffer from dyscalculia, compared to between 2.5 and 4.3 per cent of children who suffer from dyslexia. The main location in the brain
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