Parent-Student Resources
The Power of Self-Advocacy
Self Advocacy Workshop “The Power of Self Advocacy and How to Get Started” presented by The Dyslexia Resource Group. Saturday August 13th, 2011 from 9:30 am – Noon. Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 E. Hampden Avenue, Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113 We hope you can join us for this inspiring family workshop featuring the IDA-RMB Youth [...]
More »Free Webinar on Special Education: Individual Education Program 101
Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1. gotomeeting. com/register/ 197963120 Every parent of a child receiving or in need of special education experiences a new system of educational planning. This process can be both confusing and overwhelming! To help prepare you for ensuring your child has the services and supports needed to achieve in school, [...]
More »DAC + Your Network= Success
The Dyslexia Awareness Campaign (DAC) Committee would encourage you to handout, share, post, download, print, and link to the DAC flyers below for the DAC special events within your community. Students, parents, clients, patients, tutors, teachers, associations, newsletters, schools, PTA/PTOs, friends, and family members can all help us spread the word. DAC Family Resource Fair Flyer DAC 360 Professional [...]
More »Dyslexia Summer Workshop: Creative Fun Empowering
Are you looking for a unique, fun, skill-building opportunity for your child who learns differently this summer? What about registering him/her for The Listening To Learn Guild’s Dyslexic Poetry Workshop? Now you may be thinking, what? Why would my student who struggles with writing be in a writing workshop? The finished project will be hung [...]
More »Audio Notetaker Offers a Better Way to Record Lectures
For many of us the only thing worse than listening to a 2 hour lecture is having to listen to it twice. This is essentially what happens when we try to record a class or presentation. If we were to be completely honest, the majority of us wouldn’t bother with listening to a lecture again. [...]
More »Dyslexia and the Summer… What are you doing to prevent regression?
There are summer offerings around the Denver Metro area for students who need reading intervention over the summer to maintain and build skills. Here is a list of some options being offered this summer to check out and see what works for your family schedule, budget, and need. Word Attack Warriors, 3 locations (Littleton, Arvada, [...]
More »Annual Guild Luncheon a Success for Assistive Technology
The Listening To Learn Guild’s Annual Luncheon was a great success with over 80 people in attendance. The luncheon’s keynote speaker, Dr. Eric Tridas, FAAP, of the Tridas Center for Child Development, spoke at the Cherry Hills Country Club. Dr. Tridas discussed a variety of learning differences with an emphasis on how information is received, processed, and outputted from the brain. Dr. [...]
More »Where does Colorado rank for Medicaid?
2011 State Medicaid Rankings Vermont offers the best Medicaid services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities while Mississippi provides the worst, according to United Cerebral Palsy’s 2011 report “The Case for Inclusion.” Find out where your state stands in the ranking of the 50 states and the District of Columbia: 1. Vermont 2. Arizona [...]
More »DRG’s Dyslexia Resource Event
The Dyslexia Resource Group will be hosting a summer resource fair in both Highlands Ranch and Lakewood on April 30th. There will be tutors, summer camps, and other programs represented that are specifically designed for dyslexic and other students who struggle with reading. For more information see flyer on event DRG Summer Fair Flyer.
More »Web Reader HD: A low cost text-to-speech program for the iPad
I recently wrote a small post about the lack of Text to Speech software on mobile devices that are designed specifically for individuals with learning disabilities. Things are slowly improving on Apple’s iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch products with Apps either released or about to be released from Learning Ally and Bookshare.org. These apps provide access to tens [...]
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Did you miss us?
The Mobile Devices presentation was a great success last evening at Denver Academy. Click through to find a copy of the presentation to learn about all the great apps available to students.
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Quick and Easy Speech Recognition with Speech Recognizer
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The new Nook Tablet makes children’s book even more interactive
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Help make the Intel Reader a better product
Help provide feedback on one of the newest assistive technology devices – the Intel Reader
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Two big announcements on the e-books front
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