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Clinic Connection – Spring 2012
Post by Lynne Master on May 12th, 2012 in Newsletters
Learning Disabilities Clinic Newsletter—Spring 2012 Leaders Lynne Master, M.Ed., the Owner and Director, received her Master degree from Wayne State University and went on to become teaching faculty in the Graduate School, training school psychologists and special education teachers to diagnose and treat learning disabilities. She is past president of the Education Industry Association. She [...]
Post Tags: e-readers, external service provider, Jim Fay, Love and Logic, reading to children
Clinic Connection – Winter 2011
Post by Lynne Master on April 27th, 2012 in Newsletters
Learning Disabilities Clinic Newsletter—Winter 2011 National Recognition for Learning Disabilities Clinic The November 2011 issue of Smart Money Magazine (a publication of the Wall Street Journal) features an in-depth look at the world of tutoring. The article “Tutor Nation” describes six types of tutoring clinics/programs seen around the United States. One of the six programs [...]
Post Tags: cursive handwriting, homework tips, smartmoney, tutoring
Bullying, anti-bullying laws and your children
Post by Lynne Master on January 22nd, 2012 in The Law
Bullying is no joke and “just kidding” is no excuse. With the recent reports of suicides, the horrific practice of bullying that has been endured for years is finally being recognized as behavior that must be ended. “We need the commitment from everyone at the federal, state and local level to put an end to [...]
Post Tags: bullying, legal rights, parents
Learning Disabilities Clinic Featured in The Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney Magazine
Post by Lynne Master on October 26th, 2011 in News and Announcements
Learning Disabilities Clinic (LDC) was recently featured, along with several other tutoring businesses, in SmartMoney magazine, a publication of The Wall Street Journal. The article, Tutor Nation, discusses the increasing reliance on tutors to supplement schooling in the advent of growing class sizes and the lack of personalized lesson plans. “We couldn’t be happier,” says [...]
Post Tags: educational accreditation, michigan education, smartmoney, tutor, wall street journal
Learning Disabilities Terms and Definitions
Post by Lynne Master on September 9th, 2011 in Learning Disabilities
Sometimes parents see terms in an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), but no one bothers to explain what they mean. Other times a term is in the vocabulary for recognized symptoms, but people don’t know what it is. Here is a glossary of terms to give meaning to the words and to the symptoms. Dyscalculia is [...]
Post Tags: Behavior Modification, Dyscalculia, Dysgrafia, Dyslexia, Dysnomia, Executive Function, Hyperlexia, Insight Therapy, Non-Verbal Learning Disability, Primary Language Disability, Processing Disorder
