Harvard Edcast: 15 Minutes of Info on Protecting Your Child’s Brain

The Harvard Graduate School of Education presents a 15 minute edcast about ways to protect your child’s                                    developing brain at the link below.                                [...]

One of My Favorite Educator/Advocates: Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman is the president of The Children’s Defenxe Fund and has been a lifetime advocate for those in our society who are vulnerable and lacking their own voice. Please take a few moments to listen to Dr. Edelman’s comments from the Harvard Graduate School of Education interview: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news-impact/2011/05/harvard-edcast-marian-wright-edelman/

Reading Programs that Work (Wrights’ Law)

Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) Providers: These are tried and proven remedial programs that use all the senses to help students learn the connection between the sounds of words and the symbols (letters) used to spell the words (sound-symbol association) and to form the written letters and words (kinesthetic/fine motor control). These individuals and groups have [...]

SAT & ACT Prep Do You Need IT?

SAT Tutoring, ACT tutoring, GRE tutoring, study skills tutoring, LD learning disabilities tutoring, westport ct, darien ct, new canaan ct, fairfield ct, stamford ct, greenwhich ct, norwalk ct, wilton ct. Should your son or daughter take tutoring for the ACT or SAT? Realistically, students benefit from understanding the construction of these college admissions tests. Some [...]

Helpful Learning and LD Organizations

There A place to start at the national level is LDA (Learning Disabilities Association), which can lead you to your local/state level LDA: http://www.acldonline.org/ There are many valuable resources for learning and attention issues in the Fairfield County-NYC area.  Check online for ACLD (Association for Adults & Children with Learning Disabilities) in your hometown area. [...]

Nutrition and the Brain

\Dr. Daniel Amen is a world-renowned psychiatrist who specializes in brain health and nutrition, especially for ADHD/ADD. He has appeared on PBS many times and on The Aware Show podcasts online. He has several books on the brain and nutrition and addresses the reasons some medications do not work because the area of the brain [...]

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