Self-advocacy training runs April 14-16 for supporters, people with disabilities

From April 14-16, the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) is hosting a program designed to equip people with necessary ...
Science Daily

Training helps teachers anticipate how students with learning disabilities might solve problems

Researchers found that a four-week training course made a substantial difference in helping special education teachers anticipate different ways students with learning disabilities might solve math ...
Medscape

Healthcare Workers to Receive Mandatory Training on Learning Disabilities and Autism

New mandatory training on learning disabilities and autism launched today, says Health Education England (HEE). In an effort to highlight a "lack of understanding of the needs of people with a ...
snhu

Partnership Focuses On Language-Based Learning Disability Education

Imagine yourself back in school, and each student in your class is reading a section of a story. As your turn approaches, you get more and more nervous. Nothing could be worse than having to read in ...
WHYY

Philly study focuses on learning how to use public transit as path to independence for people with learning disabilities

Luke Tomczuk, 28, of Philadelphia, is a member of a research team at Temple University studying the effectiveness of Chance to Ride, a training curriculum and program designed to teach young adults ...
Education Week

Overlooked: How Teacher Training Falls Short for English-Learners and Students With IEPs

English-language learners and students with disabilities—groups of children once taught in isolated classrooms with specially trained instructors—spend more time in general education classrooms now ...
WRAL

Few NC students with learning disabilities are passing. Will NC's new reading program help them?

When Leah Rumbarger adds up the dollars her family has spent on education services for her dyslexic daughters, she wonders how most people could ever afford it. Her family spent $4,000 for two ...