What We Have Learned: Experiences in Providing Adaptations and Accomodations for Gifted and Talented Students With Learning Disabilities
Would you allow a person to use a wheelchair? Would you carry him or her? If using a wheelchair gives someone an unfair advantage in a race, should his or her time count the same as that of other runners? Would you allow a person to wear glasses for reading a test, even if they only help a little? What about glasses that are so strong that they give the person an ability to read faster than average? Would you allow a person to use a word processor if you knew that the person had a severe writing disability but had ideas that showed evidence of giftedness? Would you allow dictation for a gifted student who had a severe writing disability?
Children’s Expectations and Beliefs Toward the Relative Safety of Riding Bicycles at Night
This study examined middle-school-aged children’s expectations, attitudes, and perceptions toward the relative safety of riding bicycles at night with reflectors and/or head and tail lights. Three hundred and sixtythree children in grades 7 through 9 were surveyed
Expert Testimony May Show Some Schools Hazardous to Children’s Health!
One wintry afternoon, a San Francisco-area attorney called me to ask if she could enlist my expertise for an assault and personal injury case involving a large high school where her teen-aged client had been viciously brutalized
