Hi, going out of station – to Sringeri, to have Sri Sharadamba and Sri Gurugalu’s darshan. Will pray for all of you!
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Away to Sringeri
Posted in notice to readers, places, tagged Guru darshan, Sringeri Sharadamba on January 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
BELCHING COWS & GREEN HOUSE GAS
Posted in diseases, environment, food for thought, from TOI, pets, research, society, tagged belching, cows, europe, grass eating, greenhouse effect, mad cow disease, research funding, sweden research on January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The following is the letter to the TOI editor that mr vidyaranya bellur emailed, but unfortunately the letter was highly edited and published on 28/01/08. since he had emailed a copy to me, i thought of publishing it here unedited so that it might interest my readers and they may write their comments on this:
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Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 10 – the concluding post!
Posted in children, counselling, disability, dyslexia, education, empowering, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, stigma, thoughts and emotions, tagged Aamir Khan, Certificate of LD, counselling, depression, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyslexia, early intervention, extra time in exam, family history, identification of problem, labelling, language concession, learning disability, low self-esteem, low self-worth, mild, moderate or severe degree, NIMHANS, NIOS, parental feelings, remedial teaching, remediation, sensitizing parents and teachers of school going childr, services of a scribe, skills, St. Johns Hospital, student counselling, substitution of a subject, Taare Zameen Par, vocational training on January 29, 2008 | 35 Comments »
I have decided to conclude the post today, however lengthy or short it may become !
We have discussed the various LD markers and also the probable causes. OK, Once we have identified a child with these difficulties, what do we do?
The child needs an assessment by an Educational psychologist or a Special Educator who may administer [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 8
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged anxiety whie reading, auditory speller, consonant blends, diagraphs, dyslexia, errors with syntax, spelling difficulty, syllabication, vowel sounds, writing difficulties on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
While constructing a sentence, children with LD may find it hard to structure their sentence grammatically. They commit errors with syntax. They can not string the words in the right order. They may write, “road goes on the car” instead of “car goes on the road”. Passive voice poses problem to them. The sentence “cat chases the [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 7
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged alignment, dysgraphia, dyslexia, punctualtion and capitalization difficulty, spatial ability, teacher's insensitivity, writing difficulties on January 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Continuing the writing difficultiesthat many children with LD face, they have poor handwriting as their finer muscle controls are bad in the initial stages and by the time they gain control over the finger muscles, the pattern would have been set and children demotivated enough by all the insults that they keep hearing that they [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 6
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged auditory discrimination, day dreaming in class, dominance of the brain, dyslexia, fine motor skill, left and right hemisphere of the brain, left handedness, reading difficulties, visual discrimination, visual perception on January 21, 2008 | 15 Comments »
In my last post I was discussing the various forms of Visual and Auditory perceptual difficulties that many children with LD face. And the link provided by Mr. John Heyas in his comment to Post 5 threw much more light upon visual perceptual difficulties. Here we may recall how the little fellow Ishaan Awasthi in [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 5
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged auditory discrimination, dyslexia, figure-ground perception, reading difficulties, short term visual and auditory memory, visual and auditory closure, visual discrimination, visual perception on January 19, 2008 | 16 Comments »
In my last post I had written about the various difficulties that children with LD face while reading. Most of these difficulties occur because of visual and auditory perceptual problems. Let me explain.
Children will have normal vision, normal hearing ability, but may have difficulty in:
visual and auditory discrimination – they may be unable to discriminate between similar [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 4
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged coding and decoding letters, dyslexia, figure-ground perception, grapheme, learning disability, phoneme, phonetic way, reading difficulty, whole word approach on January 17, 2008 | Comments Off
We will continue with the identification features of Learning Disability in Children. Many of these features may be present in a child below the age of 8 as part of their developmental phase. There are developmental norms in various domains of child development and children differ in their pace of attaining these norms. If they persist [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 3
Posted in adding dimensions, children, counselling, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged emotional immaturity, emotions, laterality, learning disability, memory, reading expressions on other's face, right-left confusion, sequencing, spatial ability, specific learning disability, symptoms of LD on January 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Let me once again make it very clear to all that the intention of my posts on Learning Disability is early identification and early intervention so that most of these kids will come out of the problem or the damages are minimized or intelligent kids are helped to make their own strategies to overcome the issues bogging [...]
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