A Learning in Motion Top Ten Selection

Learning Disability Online

Subject Area:

Teacher Pick

Address/URL:

http://www.ldonline.org/index.html

Description:

Understanding learning disabilities can help to enhance education and teaching, making the experiences positive and successful for all involved. This site is a great resource for teachers, parents, and children. It includes background, relevant articles, current research, news, lectures, and conferences on varied learning disabilities (i.e. processing deficits). Personal essays and audio clips, composed by teachers, parents, and students, offer insight into what it is like to have a learning disability or be connected with someone who does have one. Interactive activities enable you to experience having dyslexia or find out about celebrities with learning disabilities. In addition, the Bulletin Board provides a way of communicating with others on this topic.

How You Can Use This Source:

Research a specific learning disability, then write a journal entry as to how this would change your life on a daily basis.
Attend a local lecture referenced at this site and write a summary, including your preconceived and post lecture thoughts.
Add your thoughts and insights to the Bulletin Board discussion group in an area with which you are familiar.

Go to Learning Disability Online.