Adolescents

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Writing & Spelling

Writing - Walking, Tinkertoys, and Legos

Research & Reports

Adolescent Literacy and Older Students with Learning Disabilities

This report describes the adolescent literacy problem (grades 4 to 12), its consequences, and contributing factors.

Teaching & Instruction

Enhancing Outcomes for Struggling Adolescent Readers

With so much required of high schools today, there is little time or money to spend on the students who lack basic skills.

Teaching & Instruction

Gifted Learners and the Middle School: Problem or Promise?

Teaching & Instruction

Mathematics Instruction for Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities

Secondary students with learning disabilities generally make inadequate progress in mathematics. Their achievement is often limited by a variety of factors, including prior low achievement, low expectations for success, and inadequate instruction.

Research & Reports

The Documentation Disconnect for Students With Learning Disabilities: Improving Access to Postsecondary Disability Services

A Report from the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities*

Transition: School to Work

Transition to School and Work: A blueprint for your child’s success after high school

Teaching & Instruction

Watering Up the Curriculum for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities, Part I: Goals of the Knowledge Dimension

Many accommodations, though designed to ensure success of adolescents with learning disabilities in content area classes, water down the curriculum by reducing opportunities to learn and emphasizing memorization of facts.

Teaching & Instruction

Watering Up the Curriculum for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities, Part II: Goals of the Affective Dimension

This article addresses issues associated with common pedagogical practices that impede effective development of adolescents with learning disabilities.

Teaching & Instruction

We’ve Been Waiting For This Moment… Are We Ready?

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College & College Prep

Are there certain colleges that accommodate students with LD or ADHD?

Teaching & Instruction

I work with many adolescents who have poor reading abilities but I do not…

College & College Prep

What are some good learning strategies leading to college success for…

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Some strategies are effective and efficient, and others are not. Those that are both effective and efficient share characteristics that fall into three categories: content features, design features, and usefulness features. The content of the strategy refers to its steps and what they are designed to facilitate during the learning process. The design features refer to how the steps are packaged to facilitate learning and subsequent use of the strategy. The usefulness feature refers to the potential transferability of the strategy to everyday needs in a variety of settings. Ellis and Lenz (1987) identified a number of critical features across these dimensions.