What if there was a way to fix this through co-location? Instead of day or night at the museum, what about school at the museum? How many of you recall how fun it was when you were in school to have a field trip? And what an amazing experience when students have the opportunity to…
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Happy Halloween IEP Meme
LISA GENG Author and Executive Director at The Cherab Foundation Lisa Geng got her start as a designer, patented inventor,and creator in the fashion, toy, and film industries, but after the early diagnosis of her young children she entered the world of nonprofit, pilot studies, and advocacy. As the mother of two “late talkers,”…
Class Size Matters, And It Matters A Lot
“The evidence suggests that increasing class size will harm not only children’s test scores in the short run, but also their long-run human capital formation. Money saved today by increasing class sizes will result in more substantial social and educational costs in the future.” ~ Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach PhD When we have a special needs children…
When Someone Shared About Their Child’s Reading Class…. In Preschool
Evidence Letting Kids Be Kids Is Smart Research Reasons To Delay Kindergarten LISA GENG Author and Executive Director at The Cherab Foundation Lisa Geng got her start as a designer, patented inventor,and creator in the fashion, toy, and film industries, but after the early diagnosis of her young children she entered the world of nonprofit,…
Healthy Diet Boosts Children’s Reading Skills
“Another significant observation is that the associations of diet quality with reading skills were also independent of many confounding factors, such as socio-economic status, physical activity, body adiposity, and physical fitness” ~Eero Haapala, PhD What can be better than an educational study out of Finland? One that finds a healthy diet boosts children’s reading skills!…
The First Scientific Conference on Therapy for Verbal Apraxia/Dyspraxia
The First Scientific Conference on Therapy for Verbal Apraxia/Dyspraxia, held on July 23-24, 2001 at the Headquarters Plaza Hotel, Morristown, New Jersey under the auspices of the Cherab Foundation, focused on “Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) and Verbal Apraxia: A New Potential Therapeutic Intervention.” Post Conference Statement The panel discussed various clinical research alternatives including the…
Study: Cognitive Ability Can Far Exceed Verbal Ability (shocking)
Regardless of the method used to classify children as minimally verbal, 43 to 52 percent of minimally verbal children have significantly higher nonverbal than verbal intelligence scores. Great news for all of us that care for children with a communication impairment even though it’s something we already knew as parents. Something I’ve been saying for…
The Association Method School Started By A Mom
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead The Association Method The Association Method is a multisensory phonics based method for teaching oral and written language to children with severe communication disorders including apraxia. It was devised originally…
Professor Pup’s Phoneme Farm….For Speech?
“Nearly 70% of America’s kids read below grade level. I am Dr. Michael Colvard and I teamed up with a producer from The Simpsons to build a game to help!”~ Dr. Michael Colvard Professor Pup’s Phoneme Farm….For Speech? I read this AMA (ask me anything) by Dr. Michael Colvard, a practicing eye surgeon in Los Angeles on Reddit “Nearly…
Dr. Tomorrow Predictions Come True #PokemonGo
“Why do students leave school? Mostly due to boredom. Yet Nintendo can hold a kid’s interest for six hours. Maybe we are doing something wrong.”~Dr. Tomorrow All that is missing from Dr. Tomorrow’s quote is #PokemonGo As a parent I’ve been sharing about how video games can help with special needs since my boys were…
