Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provided a series of measures to ensure inclusive and equitable education and employment for students with disabilities. It is a part of one of the first US Civil laws that offered protection to Children with learning disabilities and has inspired many more legislations. The Section requires school … Read more
Reading is a basic step to attaining language literacy. But, it may prove to be an uphill task for starters with reading difficulties. With the introduction of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, parents and students suffering from learning disorders found solutions for meeting academic objectives. Schools started taking special education initiatives seriously and now run … Read more
Rote counting, simply put, is counting numbers from one’s memory, without attaching actual meaning to them. For example, when children recite the numbers from 1 to 10, they merely rote learn. They don’t connect these numbers with their implications or number sense. At the beginning stage, children cannot count how many objects are in front … Read more
Please Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure (link) for more info. Developing a number sense is an important step towards the overall cognitive development of children and for building a foundational base to launch their math skills. Of course, numbers also are a life skill that will help your kid throughout, right from … Read more
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 opened the floodgates for inclusive education for children with learning disabilities at the high school level. It helped many of them fulfill their dreams of pursuing higher education at the college level. However, the continuance of certain accommodations and the addition of others at the college level … Read more
Sir Einstein, Pierre Curie, and Galileo Galilei are a few among many examples of persons with dyslexia who have broken the glass ceiling created by learning disabilities and carved their names in history. However, far greater is the number of the unknown talents and potentials that were marginalized and not allowed to shine because of … Read more
Subitizing is a new-age learning methodology that is moving away from the era of rote learning. It is derived from the Latin word subitus, which roughly translated in English means ‘sudden’. It refers to a learning strategy around recognizing numbers with a glance and without actually counting them individually. The ‘sudden’ glance of numbers should … Read more
You probably do not know this but, Thomas Edison was really bad at math and well aware of it. He once said, “I can always hire a mathematician, but he cannot hire me!” Later we know, he sealed a place in history with great inventions like the electric bulb and the phonogram and 1,093 US … Read more
What time is it? If you have an analog clock in sight, it will probably take you a millisecond to answer that. But a passing gaze to read the clock is a mundane, simple day job that may be an uphill task for some people. Dyscalculia or Mathematics dyslexia is a condition where the person … Read more
Difficulty in reading, processing numbers, and establishing relationships using number sense amounts to Dyscalculia. It is a well-established fact now and about 3-7% of students are found to be suffering from this disorder[1]. With such complications to tackle, many young learners (approx.19%) drop out of school[2]. The more active and aware parents choose to homeschool … Read more