Sunday, December 27, 2009

Learning Disabilities Association of America

The Learning Disabilities Association of America's Annual International Conference will be held February 17-20, 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information on this conference, visit LDA's website at http://ldaamerica.org/conference/index.asp

Saturday, December 19, 2009

RAVE-O

The Rave-O is a 70-session program that is based on the principle that a student only retrieves quickly what he or she knows well. The program is designed to increase children's knowledge and automatic use of decoding and word identification skills by teaching them to recognize common orthographic (letter) patterns instantaneously and fluently. To learn more about RAVE-O, see the Center for Reading and Language Research here: http://ase.tufts.edu/crlr/raveo.html

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Traumatic Brain Injury Blog

Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to reorganize neural pathways. Neuroplasticity can occur as the brain compensates for lost functions or utilizes remaining functions after a brain injury. To read more about the brain's amazing capacity for generating new pathways, please view the Aphasia and Brain Injury Blog here: www.parrotsoftware.com/blog/ .

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Miracle League of the Fox Valley

The Miracle League of the Fox Valley is an organized baseball league for kids, age 4-19, with physical and/or mental disabilities. The MLFV is located in Appleton, WI, and will be playing baseball at Memorial Park in the summer of 2010. Please consider making a donation to this project. Check out their website at: www.foxvalleymiracleleague.com