Anne Faye

Guest Post by Nikolas Baron In each of us is a unique capability to learn and overcome challenges as we play to our strengths and downplay our weaknesses. Our brain is a source of multiple intelligences that are just waiting to be tapped. The thing is, there isn’t just one way to learn. Sure, there is the ‘normal’ way by sitting in a classroom, but just because it’s the conventional method, doesn’t mean that it’s the best approach. Kids on the spectrum really absorb information at entirely different ranges. Writing to express their wants and feelings is usually one of the first few hurdles they’ll have to conquer. Though the writing barrier for spectrum kids may seem more like a mountain than a molehill, like every other individual, we simply need to play to their strengths, and downplay their weaknesses. Here are some tools that can be easily used at home to cater to the needs of spectrum kids and make writing easy. TRY TYPING to simplify writing. As spectrum kids ofte...

We live in a world where almost everything is typewritten. It can easily be argued that it is much more important from a practical standpoint that children today be able to type well rather than write well. My local school system doesn't even teach cursive anymore. In all honesty, my own cursive writing is atrocious. I pretty much failed handwriting in Catholic school. People forced to read my handwriting are subject to a puzzle of brain-numbing proportions. Thankfully, most of what I write is typed, but the one thing that I still hand write are my private journals. I've been keeping them since I was 15 and I have always planned to leave them to a grandchild someday, hoping that they may be interested. But, I recently realized, that yet-to-be-born grandchild may not even be able to read it, and not just because my handwriting is poor. He or she may not even know how to read cursive. Children may not need to learn to write in cursive (with the exception of a signature), but ...