A Literacy Acquisition Perspective
What is perhaps very odd in this 30-year odyssey of mine (literacy acquisition for individuals with intellectual and developmental...
Email Conversations With Ohio Senator Peggy Lehner from September 2014
You may share all of this with anyone you wish who might be interested in the process. Here is a lengthy email conversation I had a year...
Dr. Maria Montessori History
If any of you are wondering if my working with individuals with intellectual disabilities could possibly translate to working with...
Speaking accommodations, yes! Printing accommodations, No! And Why????
More and more I find it unusual that we as civilized people do everything we possibly can to accommodate those to whom we are speaking...
Less than 37% of the English Language is Phonetic: Some examples
First picture from Marilyn Jager Adams book (Beginning to Read) and the second picture is from me
Why Teaching Words in Isolation Fails
The only way to successfully gain increase in one’s vocabulary is to read. Reading is the horse that pulls the vocabulary cart, period....
Comprehension of Literacy Materials:
One of the most perplexing problems I have encountered in my lectures on literacy acquisition for individuals with intellectual...
Perspectives
I’ve spent the better part of the last 50 years in the field of intellectual disabilities and the last 28 years developing a program for...