IEP Goals for Students with Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities (NVLD)

IEP Goals for Students with Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities (NVLD)

Behavior apt to situation and surroundings is a natural manifestation of human intelligence. However, those born with learning disabilities may show the inability to conform to behavioral norms. These children require additional training as a supplement to their basic skills-building curriculum. This additional training emphasizes addressing issues related to non-verbal learning disabilities; building these is … Read more

Free Printable Phonics Worksheets for Adults [PDF]

Free Printable Phonics Worksheets for Adults [PDF]

I have come across several grown-ups who can’t read properly. By properly I mean – with correct pronunciation, word sound, and prosody. They struggle to sound out words correctly, highly accented lingo distort the words further. On a deeper inspection, I realized that the problem lied in the way they were taught words. Earlier, teachers … Read more

IEP Goals for students with significant cognitive disabilities

IEP Goals for students with significant cognitive disabilities

Learning disabilities are not restricted to discomfort with numbers and language only. If you dissect these issues deeply, you will find other co-morbidities working behind the scene too. Difficulty to reason, to comprehend or to ascertain orientation or inability to take care of the self, which is what cognitive disability sum up as, is the … Read more

Free Printable Prime and Composite Number 1-100 Charts [PDF]

Free Printable Prime and Composite Number 1-100 Charts [PDF] with blank template included

Read and write the numbers, and then perform operations like addition and subtraction. All is hunky-dory till this point. The real struggle starts when somebody tells you that these numbers have got the types too. What?!!! Yes, it is perhaps the first reaction you may receive from a child. In pre-primary days, they learn about … Read more

Free Printable 1-120 Number Chart [PDF] with Missing Numbers and Blank Template

Free Printable 1-120 Number Chart [PDF] with Missing Numbers and Blank Template

‘How to introduce numbers to preschoolers?’ Some sew numbers into songs; a few others play games. All activities have their specific utilities. However, none of this guarantees ingrained learning. Educators do worry about the learning taken over by fun. Perhaps this is why the teachers supplement the activities with other consumables such as Printable number … Read more

9 Online Phonics Games For Little Learners

9 Online Phonics Games For Little Learners

Communication is the key to translating your ideas into a string of words that flows from your mind to others. Do you know the main ingredient behind persuasion and influence? It is the art of communication. Therefore a significant chunk of our lives has been spent in “reading and writing” in our schools to develop … Read more

Understanding form discrimination and using occupational theory to cope

Understanding form discrimination and using occupational theory to cope

Form discrimination comes under visual discrimination, in which a child faces problems in identifying or sorting letters, symbols, shapes, or words. The discrimination ability can hinder even with a slight difference in the size of the word, object, or shape. With the form discrimination, orientation changes, but the form remains constant. A child facing form … Read more

Understanding visual discrimination among toddlers and strategies to improve these skills

Understand visual discrimination among toddlers and strategies to cope

When your child starts to perceive new objects or things around him, he visually discriminates the things – patterns of the items, sizes, shapes, and colors. This activity of perceiving and understanding tangible and intangible objects and ideas is called Visual Discrimination. If your child cannot visually discriminate things, there is no need to fear … Read more

9 Online Games For Kids To Improve Writing Skills

List of top 10 Online Writing Games

“My child hates writing!” Does this sentence sound relatable to you too? I am sure it does! After all, this statement is quite common, especially among the new generation parents. For young children, creativity and imagination are just like games, and why not teach them writing by some fun activity? Children will grow into successful … Read more

Measurable IEP Goals for Geometry

Measurable IEP Goals for Geometry

It’s hard for a child with learning disorders to match the performance of a regular child. They can’t just study the same curriculum given to the abled kids and if they can, they require a little extra effort than their counterparts. Thus in order to make developmental, behavioral, and social skills better for the differently-abled … Read more