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  • Welcome to the TeachingLD blog!

    Posted on July 5, 2011

    We are pleased to inaugurate this new feature of TeachingLD. We hope that visitors to TeachingLD will find it a valuable way to learn about and share recent and interesting events related to learning disabilities. 

     
    We invite registered visitors to submit comments and content in certain areas of TeachingLD. We hope you will take the opportunity to contribute in the interactive areas of the site--the blog, the lesson-plans section, and others--as a way of helping each other help students with Learning Disabilities. To ensure that the interactive features are enjoyable and appropriate for visitors to TeachingLD, we ask that contributors adhere to a few rules, which we have outlined in simple form here and in greater detail in our disclaimer. 
     
    By submitting content, you agree that you will not submit 
    1. Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation;
    2. Material that personally identifies a child or a student;
    3. Material that is untrue, defames, abuses, harasses, or threatens others;
    4. Statements that are bigoted, hateful, mean spirited, or ethnically or racially offensive;
    5. Material that advocates illegal activity or discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them;
    6. Unauthorized copyrighted material (including, but not limited to, text, sound, or graphic files);
    7. Material that contains vulgar, obscene, pornographic, or indecent language or images;
     
    If we find that someone has posted materials that violate these guidelines, we'll remove the material and, completely at our discretion, we may ban the person from posting in the future.
     
    We look forward to having TeachingLD provide a vibrant and pleasant forum for people to exchange helpful content about teaching students with Learning Disabilities. 

  • Changes in the Executive Board

    Posted on July 12, 2011

    New officers began their terms on the DLD Executive Board 1 July 2011. Paul Riccomini moved into the presidency, replacing Michael Gerber, who began a term as past president. Janette Klingner, Erica Lembke, and Margaret (Peggy) Weiss began terms as president-elect, vice president, and treasurer, respectively. They are all joined on the executive board by newly appointed committee chairs Rebecca Zumeta (Professional Development, Standards, & Ethics), Susan Thomas (Membership), and Karen Fries (Student Representative). 

     

    With the end of the year, the board bids adieu to Linda Siegel (who completed her four-year term in the presidential sequence), Kristen McMaster (who completed her three-year term as chair of the Professional Development, Standards, & Ethics Committee), Elizabeth Parrett (who completed multiple terms as chair of the Membership Committee, beginning in 2003), and Amber Moran (who served as Student Representative for 2010-2011). Thanks to all of these fine folks for attending dozens of meetings, volunteering uncounted hours of time, and wading through enormous waves of e-mail as part of their service to DLD. 

     

  • NJCLD LD Construct Paper

    Posted on September 2, 2011

    In March of 2011, the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD), of which DLD is a member, issued a consensus document reaffirming the importance of the construct of learning disabilities. The participating organizations developed the document to help policy makers understand fundamental concerns about LD. According to the introduction, the "paper addresses points of general agreement in the field of LD, common misperceptions regarding LD, and unresolved issues in scholarship and practice, which inform the NJCLD’s policy recommendations regarding LD research and practice. The paper presents neither all agreements nor all controversies in the field of LD; the NJCLD’s purpose in presenting this document is to establish a basic consensus upon which to build policy for the United States." 

    Readers can download a copy of the document, "Learning Disabilities: Implications for Policy Regarding Research and Practice—A Report by the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities March 2011."

  • Reading Rockets covers Homework HotSheet

    Posted on September 8, 2011

    Under the headline "What does good homework look like?," Reading Rockets columnist Joanne Meier featured the TeachingLD HotSheet on homework by Kathy Ruhl and Charlie Hughes on 7 September 2011. Here is how the entry starts:

    Teachers give homework just about every night of the week. A good homework assignment can provide students with practice with a skill already taught, can prepare students for an upcoming test, and can extend a project or topic under study. A poorly designed homework assignment can bring tears and frustration and a lost opportunity to build a bridge between what's being taught in school and talked about at home.

    Readers can review the entire column in it's original form. It's wonderfully flattering to have the recognition of this fine work by our TLD authors. 

     

  • Special Ed research funding cuts

    Posted on November 28, 2011

     

    The Council for Exceptional Children issued an important alert about reductions in funding for the National Center for Special Education Research. Please read this and take action:

     

    ***CEC ACTION ALERT: ATTENTION DLD MEMBERS***

    ***TELL CONGRESS TO RESTORE FUNDING FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION RESEARCH***

     

    This month Congress is making important decisions about funding for fiscal year 2012. CEC is currently advocating to meet all of our priorities, but one area we are especially concerned with is funding for special education research.  In FY 2011, Congress and the Administration cut funding for special education research by a staggering amount - $20 million dollars – or 28%. This cut has impacted projects in every state and greatly hamstrung our nation’s ability to have the robust research agenda it needs on behalf of children and youth with disabilities. We need your help right now to make a difference. Can you spare a few minutes?

    Take action today! CEC’s Legislative Action Center provides you with a draft letter that you can sent to your members of Congress – it only takes a few clicks of the mouse!  Have you received a grant? If so, personalize your letter to tell your members of Congress what these federal dollars have meant to you and your community.Together we can make a difference!

    Visit CEC's Legislative Action Center today and make your voice heard. Join CEC and tell your legislators torestore funding for the National Center for Special Education Research’s budget to its FY 2010 level of $71 million dollars.

    Thank you for your help!