At the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) annual conference in Salt Lake City in October 2009, the theme was “We’re Better Together: Leadership through the Practice of Community.” In addition to the state...

To prepare students with learning disabilities for state testing in reading, teachers often require students to highlight text within a reading passage. A colleague of mine, Tracie A. Ramos, shared a best teaching practice that works well as an...

In Tuesday’s New York Times,  Simon Baron-Cohen reviews the implications of merging Aspergers into Autism Spectrum Disorder in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.  He gives a solid overview of reasoning on both...

Emergent Readers and Struggling Readers Have Fun Learning and Discover Reading Success Say It, Rhyme It, Spell It is an engaging game, made in two levels, that helps emerging readers and struggling readers become familiar with words that follow a...

Now for a departure from our dialogue about materials for students with special needs.  .  . PCI is not a huge company, so when you consider everything our team does – it’s actually quite amazing; we develop products, market those products, design...