Students and families fear that President Trump’s plan to shrink or abolish the Department of Education could reduce ...

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While the recent months have been a flurry of news around education, we’re becoming distracted from the very real challenges students are facing in the classroom. Because when speaking with parents, ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. It’s time to rethink disability accommodations in higher education. While essential for ensuring ...

The University of Indianapolis is introducing a new acting class to help students with learning-related disabilities. “We decided to devote an entire class to students in the Build program to work on ...

Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of her classmates flew through multiplication tests, Jackson's daughter relied on her ...

When Leah Rumbarger adds up the dollars her family has spent on education services for her dyslexic daughters, she wonders how most people could ever afford it. Her family spent $4,000 for two ...

Counting bears are frequently used in early childhood classrooms and may be especially useful for students with math disabilities as they learn that numbers correspond with a certain quantity of items ...

Caroline Richter, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Psychology, says learning disabilities are common, and there are many ways for parents to ...

At UC Berkeley, over half of registered disabled students have psychological or emotional disabilities. The number of ...

College students often have a complicated relationship with social media, with a large number of learners active on multiple social media platforms but also aware of the negative mental health ...

As a teacher, you want all of your students to reach their academic potential. However, not everyone learns at the same pace or in the same way. That means you need to be prepared to provide ...