Word Finding Difficulties in the Classroom Clinical reports and anecdotal evidence suggest that certain behaviors in the classroom may indicate that students are having word finding difficulties. This section of the web site presents examples of these behaviors. Students who display these behaviors in the classroom may benefit from deep assessment and follow up intervention in word finding. Click here to obtain procedures to obtain classroom based observations of learners' word finding skills in the classroom. Classroom behaviors that may suggest word finding difficulties are presented according to the classrom and academic activities below. Word Finding Behaviors Displayed in Oral Questioning Word Finding Behaviors Displayed in Class Discussion, Cooperative Groups, or in Conversations Word Finding Behaviors Displayed in Reading Word Finding Behaviors Displayed in Writing Activities. {*style:<b> </b>*} The student has a long delay and does not give a response or produces a substitution similar in meaning or sound form to the answer.
8 Signs That You Were Meant to Be a Writer Are you meant to be a writer? Do you ever wonder if you were truly meant to be a writer? Deep down you sense that it might just be so. But then doubt creeps in, and you just aren’t sure. You look at your writing. You realize that you aren’t where you want to be. A great writer would be further along by now, right? Wrong. If you’re reading this, chances are you were meant to be a writer. Here are 8 signs that you were meant to be a word wizard. 1. You secretly dream about writing. And if you already write, you dream about doing something bigger, like writing a novel, or scoring that big freelancing client. You dream about more, bigger, better. Deep inside you know you can do it, but that pesky little voice stops you. 2. Yes, doubt is a sign that you were meant to be a writer. If you didn’t have anything to say, you wouldn’t even think about writing, but you do have something to say, and you know it. But doubt stops you. However, doubt is just a thought popping up. Why keep moving forward? 3. 4. 5. 6.
Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play. It was 7:51 a.m. on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour. Each passerby had a quick choice to make, one familiar to commuters in any urban area where the occasional street performer is part of the cityscape: Do you stop and listen? On that Friday in January, those private questions would be answered in an unusually public way. The musician did not play popular tunes whose familiarity alone might have drawn interest. The acoustics proved surprisingly kind. So, what do you think happened? So, a crowd would gather? "Oh, yes."
Who May Have Word Finding Difficulties Word finding problems have also been identified in children with specific language difficulties (SLI) (Fried-Oken, 1984; Katz, Curtis & Tallal, 1992; Lahey & Edwards, 1996; 1999; Leonard, Nippold, Kail, Hale, 1983; Rubin & Liberman, 1983; Schwartz & Solot, 1980). These children have word finding difficulties in either or both single word and discourse retrieval contexts (McGregor & Leonard, 1995). In single word retrieval contexts, students with SLI: The relationship between word finding skills and fluency difficulties, particularly stuttering, has been examined. In general, research and clinical reports have reported contrasting results suggesting that some, but not all, children who have fluency difficulties may have weak word finding skills (Boysen & Cullinan, 1971; P. Back to Top Students Who Have Attention Difficulties and/or are Hyperactive (ADHD) Back to Top References for Students Who May Have Word Finding Difficulties Ackerman, P.T., Dykman, R.A., & Gardner, N.Y. (1990).
Risky Business Comment Risky business Health-scare stories often arise because their authors simply don’t understand numbers Ben Goldacre Monday June 20, 2005 The Guardian Competence always looks better from a distance, but I have a confession to make: I’m a doctor, and I just don’t understand most of the stories on health risks in the news. Last week, we were told that red meat causes bowel cancer, and Nurofen causes heart attacks, but I was no wiser. Article continues HG Wells, 150 years ago, said that statistical thinking would one day be as important as the ability to read and write in a modern technological society. Let’s say the risk of having a heart attack in your 50s is 50% higher if you have high cholesterol: that sounds pretty bad. Natural frequencies are readily understandable, because instead of using probabilities, or percentages, they use concrete numbers, just like the ones you use every day to check if you’ve lost a kid on a coach trip, or got the right change in a shop.
Written Expression Learning Disorder Treatment Treatment of learning problems generally occurs outside of medical environments. Treatment approaches include educational remediation of poor skills, making accommodations to the learning environment, and addressing any comorbid medical and mental health issues (possibly including pharmacotherapy). When the child meets special education eligibility criteria, the academic remediation can be delivered through special services at school. The treatment of language disorders including disorders of written expression should include skill development (decoding), a holistic approach to remediation, as well as necessary accommodations. A holistic approach should begin with the student’s own ideas and follow a series of highly structured steps to narrow ideas to one topic, then help the student to create a first draft. Writing as a process In remediating poor writing skills, using methods of teaching writing that have proven most effective is helpful. Accommodations to the learning environment
Guardian Unlimited | Life | Don't dumb me down Talk about bad science here. OK, here's something weird. Every week in Bad Science we either victimise some barking pseudoscientific quack, or a big science story in a national newspaper. Now, tell me, why are these two groups even being mentioned in the same breath? Why is science in the media so often pointless, simplistic, boring, or just plain wrong? Like a proper little Darwin, I've been collecting specimens, making careful observations, and now I'm ready to present my theory. It is my hypothesis that in their choice of stories, and the way they cover them, the media create a parody of science, for their own means. Science stories usually fall into three families: wacky stories, scare stories and "breakthrough" stories. Wacky stories don't end there. A close relative of the wacky story is the paradoxical health story. At the other end of the spectrum, scare stories are - of course - a stalwart of media science. But enough on what they choose to cover. Why?
Helping Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Improve Writing Skills When you think of the word "dyslexia" reading problems immediately come to mind but many students with dyslexia struggle with writing as well. Dysgraphia, or written expression disorder, impacts handwriting, spacing of letters and sentences, omitting letters in words, the lack of punctuation and grammar when writing and difficulty organizing thoughts on paper. The following resources should help you better understand dysgraphia and work with students to improve writing skills. Understanding Dyslexia and Dysgraphia How Dyslexia Impacts Writing Skills Students with dyslexia show a significant difference between what they can tell you orally and what they are able to convey on paper. Dyslexia and Dysgraphia These are both neurological based learning disabilities but both have specific symptoms. Teaching Students with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Lesson Plans for Building Writing Skills
The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) 2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Watch for part 2 and part 3 tomorrow and the next day. (40 photos total) Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008.
Executive Function Executive Function... "What is this anyway?" Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M.S. Executive functions are crucial for school success! Published in CHADD's ATTENTION Magazine, February 2008; updated in 2011. Five years ago, most parents and teachers of students with ADHD didn't have a clue that a child's academic success was contingent upon strong executive skills. Impact of ADHD and Executive Function Deficits on Learning and Behavior. Before we understood the role of executive functions, parents and teachers were often baffled when students, especially those who were intellectually gifted, teetered on the brink of school failure. Executive Functions Defined. Additional Research on Executive Functions. According to Dr. Real World Impact. Components of Executive Function Based upon material from Barkley, Brown, and Gioia I have outlined eight general components of executive function that impact school performance: Poor Working Memory and Recall Favorite School Success Strategies
The Big Fish Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website By Matt Sharkey In August 1995, HotWired, the online publishing division of Wired magazine, was just 10 months old, making it, by the accelerated pace of the early web, both a pioneer and a latecomer. The obvious and popular solution was to sell advertising, but this being the web—and this being Wired—it would be a completely new breed of advertising. HotWired had 12 sponsors at the time of its launch, nearly half of which lacked sites of their own. “It was both extraordinarily brilliant and really screwy,” says Gary Wolf, former executive editor of HotWired and the author of Wired: A Romance. Among those who knew better was a 24-year-old cultural studies graduate named Carl Steadman. When Steadman encountered HotWired’s infamous “Login or Join” home page, he wondered how someone like Rossetto could so misunderstand one of the fundamental aspects of the web. Steadman was hired as production director for all of HotWired.
Beyond the Book Report: Ways to Respond to Literature Using New York Times Models Victor J. Blue for The New York TimesWord, a bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, provides guidance to browsers with irreverent “shelf talkers,” like this one for “The Book of Night Women,” by Marlon James.Go to related article » | Go to related slide show » Below, we present some alternatives to that classic classroom assignment, the book report. All of our ideas are inspired by The New York Times in some way, either because we’ve adapted an interesting format, or because we were inspired by an article, review, essay, interview or multimedia feature. Do you assign book reports, in any format, to your students? A Times-Style Book Review Read The Times’s Books section to scan several current book reviews of novels, story collections and poetry, and to use the search feature to find reviews of older books. Next, write your own Times-style review of a book, incorporating many of these elements. Book Talk, With You as Host Judging the Book by Its Cover Shot on Location Bring the Beat “We’re Booked”
Moglue: Create interactive ebooks and release as apps! Featured Post What it is: I never learned HTML, sure I know a few basics but nothing that will build me a good looking, functional website. Wix has long been my secret weapon. I use it often. In fact, it was how I built the Anastasis Academy website.