Watching educational videos about some curious topics. Playing with bare hands in a muddy paddle for hours. Asking for an audiobook during a long and boring car trip. Listening to the sound of browsing through book pages in a dark room. Repeating difficult words while jumping all around the place. There is no wrong way… Read More Understanding Your Child’s Cognitive Style
What is an individualized learning process? The individualization of the learning process is not one-to-one individual teaching. This means adapting the teaching to the individual characteristics of students – their rhythm of acquiring knowledge, language skills, preferred methods, and cognitive predispositions. Individualization means ‘when‘. The academic goals are equal for all in the class, but… Read More The Individualization of a Learning Process
How do you see your ideal travel companion through education? What should a modern teacher be like? How would you like him to be? With passion and fortitude – the ingredients that today’s teacher we, as a family on the spectrum, would like to have and are joyful if we are lucky enough to meet… Read More A Travel Companion Through Life Learning Ocean
3 December – UNITED NATIONS International Day of Persons with Disabilities How to mislead an important point? When you see a person without a wheelchair, using available services or parking lots addressed to the disabled, have you ever judged them simply because you do not see any disability with the proverbial naked eye? In general,… Read More Invisible Disabilities
What is the aging process, ageism phenomenon and why I decided to make a point about it? Why is it in our great interest to prepare a curriculum regarding age to educate our children starting as early as preschool kids. The ‘ageism’ derived from established social norms regarding age, is based on the formulation that… Read More Aging and Ageism
We tried numerous approaches. We tested lots of educational games and toys. The hard truth is…it’s not easy to learn times tables for kids. Especially for kids on the spectrum. Why? Kids with autism have short term memory problem. They have a serious difficulty to remember things like to answer a question of what was… Read More Crack the Code – Times Tables
While the summer holidays are just around the corner, probably a lot of parents already thinking about educational games and fun learning activities that are handy and useful to be used during no-school weeks and ideal to bring with while traveling with the whole family. Preparing your luggage and being savvy enough to bring only… Read More 5 Best eLearning Platforms We Found Helpful for Special Education Needs
Reading issue is quite common among kids who learn more than one language. A multilingual family as ours already knows that having and using more than three languages to communicate in school and home is definitely challenging. Especially for most children on the spectrum who hav or had in the past problems with speach delay,… Read More How I motivate my struggling reader to dip into the books
My first impression after seeing the app after I downloaded it on my iPhone was: ‘what a wonderful colors’ selection (they used PANTONE color palette)! Clean, uncomplicated and user-friendly experience’ it gives you at a glance when you try to figure out how to manage the very initial steps. You are guided to do not… Read More RoosterMoney – Discovering an autism-friendly app in your ABA/VB therapy
An annoyed or crying child will learn absolutely nothing. There is no way they follow your teachings if the whole setting is boring, too technical or they feel forced. Small kids struggle with long-lasting concentration so we need to be smart and find aged-tailored activities and materials. Some little ones love books (like ours!) because they… Read More Early years education should be a great fun, not a torture