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Lifestyle > Art
How Art Builds Self-Esteem in Children with Learning Disabilities
...ADHD scatters focus across competing inputs. Learning disabilities are processing differences, not intelligence deficits. But classrooms measure progress...differences, not intelligence deficits. But classrooms measure progress in reading speed, math fluency, and written output. A child who can't perform those tasks...
Career > Interviewing
Requesting Extra Time for Interview Responses: Processing Speed Accommodations
...but because your processing speed doesn't match...because your processing speed doesn't match the...When it comes to processing time in an interview,...disability that affects processing speed, and requesting...affects processing speed, and requesting specific...Most candidates with processing speed challenges don't...candidates with processing speed challenges don't...
Career > Interviewing
Scripting Interview Answers: Preparing Responses Without Sounding Rehearsed
...questions isn't optional when anxiety, processing speed, or speech differences are part...optional when anxiety, processing speed, or speech differences are part of...when anxiety, processing speed, or speech differences are part of the picture....with disabilities, working memory, speech fluency, and anxiety don't cooperate...
Education > K-12
The Special Education Evaluation Process: What Parents Need to Know
...psychologist, special education teacher, and sometimes a speech therapist, occupational therapist, or other specialist)...Psychological evaluation: measures cognitive ability, processing speed, working memory, and executive function....evaluation: measures cognitive ability, processing speed, working memory, and executive function. These...
Education > Accommodations
Standardized Testing Accommodations: Making Sure Your Child's IEP Supports Transfer to State Tests
...what's allowed and what isn't. Extended time works because it removes a processing speed barrier without changing the skill being tested. A student with dyslexia...allowed and what isn't. Extended time works because it removes a processing speed barrier without changing the skill being tested. A student with dyslexia...
Special Needs > Multiple Sclerosis
School Accommodations for Children with Multiple Sclerosis
...multi-step directions into a fog. Processing speed that slows note-taking to a...directions into a fog. Processing speed that slows note-taking to a crawl...invisible. Memory problems, slowed processing speed, and difficulty with executive...Memory problems, slowed processing speed, and difficulty with executive function...
Special Needs > Cancer
Returning to School After Childhood Cancer: What Families Need to Know
...prolonged illness affect working memory, processing speed, attention span, and executive...affect working memory, processing speed, attention span, and executive function....computer with half its RAM removed. Processing speed drops. They need more time to...half its RAM removed. Processing speed drops. They need more time to move...
Medical > Pediatrics
From Referral to First Appointment: Cutting Through the Specialist Waitlist for Your Special Needs Child
...approved authorization can stretch 2 to 6 weeks depending on your insurer's processing speed and whether they request additional documentation. Start this process...authorization can stretch 2 to 6 weeks depending on your insurer's processing speed and whether they request additional documentation. Start this process the...
Therapies > Play
Applied Floortime
...response. This judgment reflects more on our own patience than the actual processing speed the child needs to execute. To really wait on a child to process...This judgment reflects more on our own patience than the actual processing speed the child needs to execute. To really wait on a child to process what he...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
Sensory Integration: Building Blocks
...sensory processing disorder....sensory processing issues are...faster, processing skills....sensory processing disorders,...sensory processing is addressed...increased processing speed and...processing speed and access...sensory processing disorder...sensory processing disorders....hearing/auditory processing, movement/balance,...Sensory Processing) is the brain's...
Special Needs > Learning Differences
Types of Learning Disabilities
...that affects a child's reading and how they see and understand written words. Children with dyslexia can mix up letters, have a hard time with reading speed and fluency, and may even complain of physical ailments when reading. Dyscalculia Dyscalculia is the learning disability that revolves around...
Lifestyle > Recreation
Tabletop Role-Playing Games for Social Skills Development
...Structure Works for Social Skills. Turn-based gameplay removes the social processing speed that makes open conversation overwhelming. Your child doesn't have...Works for Social Skills. Turn-based gameplay removes the social processing speed that makes open conversation overwhelming. Your child doesn't have to jump...