The Resource Room

Tools, Strategies, and Structured Explorations for Interesting Learners

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• Lessons, ideas, articles and links for multisensory learning for people of all ages.
• Resources for people who learn differently, or have learning difficulties or learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia.

Teachers, home educators, curriculum developers, tutors, students, parents, Orton-Gillingham trained specialists, and other curious souls welcome!

What's New at Resource Room

• Text-to-Speech Software for Reading by Kenneth Elkind and Jerome Elkind from the IDA. What are the different products and what can the do - and not do?

• Amateur Video Math INstruction!
  Camtasia of "adding fractions with different denominators." (P.S. You can do this!)

• Teach Your Child The Multiplication Tables: review of pattern and visuals-based book about the times tables. Check it out!

• Teaching the Structure of Language through Seeing, Hearing and Doing by Suzanne Carreker, reprinted with permission from the International Dyslexia Association - Great examples of Orton-Gillingham strategies!

• Revived and relocated! Joyce Steeves' Very Good At Everything: Social & Emotional Ramifications of Dyslexia and Other Atypical Learning Styles and Patterns (thanks to the person who alerted me that it had been deleted - I love active surfers!)

• Adding Fractions with Different Denominators: using motor memory. (It works, by the way!)

• Sue Jones' blog! Links and comments and who knows what else? Latest entry 6/25/07 with math and typing links. (Biking Blog, too if you're feeling distractible :-))

• Dyslexia In The News - articles about people with dyslexia. Updated 06/14

• Word Part : Di .

• Building Vocabulary in Remedial Settings: Focus on Word Relatedness reprinted with permission from the International Dyslexia Association

• Teaching Study Skills and Learning Strategies to Therapists, Teachers and Tutors: How to Give Help and Hope to Disorganized Students
  by Diane Newton

• Speaking To Write/Word for Word: An Overview of Speech Recognition by Bob Follansbee, Ed. D. Another invaluable article reprinted with permission from the IDA Perspectives journals.