Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, some “otherwise qualified” individuals with disabilities are protected from discrimination and ...

This week Eric Adams became the first New York City Mayor-elect to have dyslexia. Along the campaign trail, Adams said his diagnosis was later in life and that universal early screening is a top ...

Tim Odegard, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has personal experience with teachers who did not believe in his intelligence because of a discredited dyslexia screening ...

The Department of Clinical Psychology at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) organised a national seminar and Continuing Rehabilitation Education (CRE) event on “Current trends ...

If school is a constant struggle, or if you wonder if there's something else going on, like ADHD, anxiety, depression, dyslexia or other type of learning disability or intellectual disability getting ...

I specialize solely in the psychological testing and assessment of children, adolescents, and adults, providing both traditional and collaborative/ therapeutic assessments focused on the following ...

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Laura Lemle watched how some teachers didn’t always understand how to teach her daughter, who has nonverbal learning disability. Some were incredibly empathetic, others were not. Special education ...

Learning disabilities (LDs) are diagnosed using both educational and medical perspectives (Cortiella and Horowitz, 2014). From an educational perspective, the most commonly used definition is found in ...

While the recent months have been a flurry of news around education, we’re becoming distracted from the very real challenges students are facing in the classroom. Because when speaking with parents, ...

Nebraska DHHS declined interviews about disability assessments while keeping scoring methods secret and upholding all appeals.