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If your child had dyslexia, do you think you could tell? Would you be able to recognize the signs? If you are like most people you may not even be sure what the signs of dyslexia are. Apart from well known signs such as mixing up letters, what else is there to alert you your child might have dyslexia? Read full article »

School can be a tough place for many kids. It has a lot to do with bullies and cliques and trying to fit in during one of the most tumultuous times in our lives. For some children, school is made even more difficult because of academic difficulties. Every child learns differently, and some children need different teaching methods or additional resources to help them learn. Read full article »

Do you know why you have ADD/ADHD? Because you are extremely intelligent! No, I am not being sarcastic. In fact, I could not be more sincere. Most people with ADD/ADHD (herein called ADHD) have such a strong interest in a great variety of things, they have a hard time maintaining focus on one thing at a time. Read full article »

The McKay Scholarship Program of the Florida schools offers parents and their children with disabilities the option to attend the public or private school of their choice. Florida schools students in grades kindergarten through high school, who are mentally handicapped, speech and language impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, Read full article »

Let’s face it!!! Our children are judged based on their grade point average and their performance on standardized test such as ACT/ SAT. Our children’s high school and college admissions are based on those credentials. As parents, we invest money in sophisticated desktop/ laptop computers to give them access to the worldwide web. We establish home offices, libraries and structured areas to encourage daily homework and studying. We believe constant studying and attention to homework will groom our children to brilliant status and give them impeccable credentials. Read full article »

Children with Asperger’s Syndrome the world over share a common trait – meltdown – otherwise known as a tantrum, a ‘birko’, a ‘go-off’ or ’spack-attack’.

The visible symptoms of meltdown are as varied as the Asperger children themselves, but every parent is able to describe their child’s meltdown behaviour in intricate detail.

Meltdowns can be short lived, or last as long as two hours. They can be as infrequent as once a month (often coinciding with the lunar cycle/full moon) or occur as frequently as 4-6 times a day. Read full article »

“Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it,” stated J. B. Matthews. When it comes to writing a dissertation, this statement is certainly true. It takes time to research. Often students are confused about how to begin the research process for the dissertation and how to apply the research to a literature review. Read full article »

As a student pilot, everything is new to you. It is a lot of fun, but you are put into situations that you haven’t been put into before. And it’s a lot of fun but a lot of times it can be pretty spooky. Let’s say that you are flying for the first time through moderate turbulence, it’s really bumpy and uncomfortable and you are not used to it. It can be pretty rough for a new student.

Also, another thing that can make new students a little bit nervous is landing. And yes, landing is its own adventure. Read full article »

Some of the most important procedures to practice when you are learning to fly are emergency procedures. I have actually had to make an emergency landing in a field a few years back. It wasn’t the coolest thing that has ever happened to me, but I was prepared for the emergency and my wife and I walked away from it. And we both love to fly now more than ever.

When my students are training with me, I make sure that they know exactly what to do during a particular emergency. Read full article »

My son Jack and I took some time out from playing with the educational toys he received for Christmas and went to a hockey game over the holidays. Like most 7 year olds, his favorite part is when the Zamboni comes out to clean the ice. We had seen this a thousand times so I was stymied when Jack said, ‘Why is there smoke coming out of the back?’ It’s steam I told Jack, they use hot water because it freezes faster. Read full article »