LDExperience

I had lunch with a colleague yesterday, who is, to put it mildly, a sophisticated political operative. He has amazing insight into matters pertaining to the political process. I thoroughly enjoy speaking with him about democracy, citizen engagement, and the evolving nature of our society. Both of us commented on how many people feel disenfranchised. [...]

Put up your hand if think that people with dyslexia have difficulties with letter and word reversals.  From where I am sitting, it looks to me like most of you have your hand raised.  I can’t really see you of course, but my experience tells me that the majority of people, even teachers, believe that [...]

I recently attended a conference on Brain Development and Learning.  I often describe myself as a “sociologist gone bad!” I am not a clinician nor am I an educator. My interest in the conference was to learn more about emerging research on learning, and brain physiology associated with learning disabilities. While at the conference, I [...]

Peter Flom has his Ph.D in Psychometrics from Fordham University and an MA in Special Education from New York University. He has his own consulting firm where he specializes in helping graduate students and researchers in psychology, education, economics and the social sciences with all aspects of statistical analysis. He is also a parent, husband, [...]

I helped organize a panel discussion on special education that took place this week. The target audience was people in our city running in the fall election as school trustees. I am one of a small group of active parent special education advocates within our local school district. With the impending election, we all had [...]

It seems like Einstein really was onto something with the theory of relativity. Time really is relative. Our son, affected by learning disabilities and ADHD, has been in the school system for a decade. Sometimes that decade feels like it has gone by in a heartbeat. At other times, I feel like time is stretched [...]