Witches of all ages! Oh, my!

Witch Kara

Count Dracula comes to call......

Oh, no!  A vampire!!!

Yikes! A Witch!

Katie the witch

Scary Sightings at Langsford!

Woooooooooooooo......It's Halloween and some interesting characters have been showing up for sessions today in place of our regular students!  In our lobby this morning, there was a gangster hanging out with a soldier!  Who knows what else the day will bring?  If you come looking for me, I'll be hiding under my desk......

Langsford Lecture Series: Demystifying Achievement Tests

This week Langsford hosted a group of more than 50 educators from across the city for the first of its Langsford Lecture Series' presentations of the 2012-13 school year.  One of our directors, Stephen McCrocklin, talked about the WIAT-III and WJ-III achievement tests.

People have a tendency to take test scores at face value.  Stephen stressed the importance of knowing what individual subtests are specifically looking at and the various factors that could affect scores.

Maybe this has you wondering.....

What is an achievement test?  

• It is a measure of a student's acquisition of skills or knowledge following appropriate exposure to the material.
• It is NOT a measure of potential to learn, or ability to learn. 

October is Learning Disabilities Month!

Facts about learning disabilities 

• Fifteen percent of the U.S. population, or one in seven Americans, has some type of learning disability, according to the National Institutes of Health.
• Difficulty with basic reading and language skills are the most common learning disabilities. As many as 80% of students with learning disabilities have reading problems.
• Learning disabilities often run in families.
• Learning disabilities should not be confused with other disabilities such as mental retardation, autism, deafness, blindness, and behavioral disorders. None of these conditions are learning disabilities. In addition, they should not be confused with lack of educational opportunities like frequent changes of schools or attendance problems. Also, children who are learning English do not necessarily have a learning disability.
• Attention disorders, such as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and learning disabilities often occur at the same time, but the two disorders are not the same.

These facts reported by LD Online.

Interested in learning more about learning disabilities?  Check out LD Online!

LD OnLine is a website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children will find authoritative guidance on attention deficit disorder, ADD / ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, reading difficulties, speech and related disorders.