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A Researcher Looks at LD

I am a retired professor of NeuroPsychology who developed a research program on the relationship between the brain and learning disability. I want to outline one particular study and show its importance in how we diagnose and teach the children we now label learning disabled.

Let's assume you think that BAC will jump to its price of 36 in October of 2008 sometime in the next two years. You have about $750 to invest. At the current price of 8.75 you could buy 85 shares. If you are right your $750 would be worth $3096 (86 shares at $36)

Anne Pemberton

I taught neuropsychological research with an emphasis on special education for 25 years. I got started in this area when I told a friend that I did not have visual imagery. Her reaction was, "How do you think?"
I think by talking to myself but she thought via mental imagery. From there I developed a theory of the causes and remediation of reading disability.

It is 1980 and the web was not invented, but the Bulletin Board System (BBS) flourished. They served the same function of a website, email, file transfer, graphic all in text. Most were served by a single phone line and there was no communication among the BBS.

Nostalgic Asides
I remember the Sister BBS in Staten Island, NY had to close down because of a hacker.
I found a 300 baud modem a little slow and felt the need to upgrade soon. Ancient history.
End Asides

And then the creation of the multiuser BBS. I was on the Alianthus tree, but there were many more.

A Keyboarders Guide to Excel is a series of tutorials designed to make Excel efficient for those who would prefer to use the keyboard rather than the mouse. These lessons are especially aimed at the blind and those who have mobility impairments where the mouse is not an option. This tutorial also provides an alternative approach for anyone.

In the 19th Century Reading was as important a skill as it is today. And in the 19th Century phonetic decoding was the basis of reading. The 20th century did relatively little to the reading process. Probably more than half the population prefer reading from paper than from a screen or a Kindle. One thing, however, has remained as strong across 3 Centuries: Phonics!!!

In the nineteenth century prodigious skills of arithmetic computation was a pre requisite for top employment.
During the course of the twentieth century the need for this skill diminished as technology was able to automate arithmetic. In the 21st Century we still insist that the calculation skill is somehow the basis of the rest of mathematics. If a child cannot learn arithmetic, an obsolete skill, he will have a major problem in school. Suddenly poor computational skills becomes "math disability".

The Enabling Support Foundation is a 501c incorporated non-profit organization, whose Mission is to provide the technological tools to empower individuals with disabilities to maximize their inherent potential. ESF has used a combination of hardware distribution, Internet training, and the development of Internet resources and services with an emphasis on accessibility. ESF is using a unique combination of Mailing Lists, WWW, and real-time interaction to develop a Virtual Community that provides the latest information, human interaction and research and development on the Internet.