V.8 #1 Counseling/School Psychology -
Aggression Replacement Training
Brought to you by Learning Disabilities Worldwide (LDW®) through the generosity of Saint Joseph's University. Behavioral problems often co-occur with academic difficulties (Todd, Horner, Sugai, & Colvin, 1999). Children with anti-social behaviors often experience a high co-occurrence with academic and social deficits. Although learning disabilities may be one reason for students to engage in maladaptive behaviors, the opposite is also true in that disruptive, antisocial and
V.8 #1 Social-Emotional Development -
Mindfulness for Teachers: Keeping the Whole Child in Mind
Brought to you by Learning Disabilities Worldwide (LDW®) through the generosity of Saint Joseph's University. To the doctor, the child is a typhoid patient; to the playground
supervisor, a first baseman; to the teacher, a learner of arithmetic.
At times, he may be different things to each of these specialists,
but too rarely is he a whole child to any of them (White House
Conference on Child Health and Protection, 1930: Washington, D
V.8 #1 Mathematics - Probing Dyscalculia: Strategies to Strengthen Elementary Students' Understa
Brought to you by Learning Disabilities Worldwide (LDW®) through the generosity of Saint Joseph's University.
"What is dyscalculia?" is a question that I pose to my preservice elementary teachers in my mathematics methods course at the start of every semester. This question is usually met with blank stares and silence. Most have not heard the term and for those who have, they have no idea how to define it. However, when I ask "what is dyslexia?" hands go up and typical resp