Federal Unemployment Insurance for Unemployed Increases as Average 30-Year Mortgage Rates Decrease but Home Foreclosure Up; Economic Recovery Struggles

News reports show that the number of new requests for unemployment benefits falls more than expected by 31,000 during this past week according to the labor department. This is good news for the market and the economic recovery. Economic growth estimates are expected to be much higher than actuality. Although the drop in jobless benefit [...]

School Replaces Standard Sit-Down Desks with Height Adjustable Work Stations

We have all heard that some people are good at thinking on their feet. Well, in several schools across the nation, students literally will! It has been routine and standard practice throughout recent history in school across America for students to be seated (often in rows) for a majority of their class-time core instruction. More [...]

Improve National Literacy Rates by Developing Reading Readiness in your Preschool Aged Child at Home

Support reading readiness and community education.  Preschool aged children can learn reading readiness skills too.  Reading readiness skills are easy to develop and parents need to be made aware.  Before your child even enters school you can begin to develop reading readiness by participating in fun and interesting activities with your child.   Pull out some [...]

Motor Development can Equal Writing Proficiency

We want and expect our children to be as independent as possible.  We want them to perform with the fewest restrictions possible.  Since written language constitutes a basic form of communication in our society, and proper writing skills require an individual to develop functional writing habits, we need to develop motor strength and ability from [...]

Develop Strength and Dexterity and Increase Fine Motor Ability for Students in Primary School

It is often the recommendation of the school-based occupational therapist not to use “finger grippers” on pencils for students below 2nd grade.  Finger grippers are items that slide over a pencil and are formed in such a way that they support appropriate finger placement and grip when using the pencil.  Students with poor pencil grasp [...]

Basic Water Chemistry Knowledge can keep you Informed during the Warm Season Swimming Excursions

During this time of year, there are many people opening their private pools or getting geared up to attend a local public or private pool for the warm season.  Not many people consider the basics of pool chemistry when visiting a pool or spa, but you should.  Your health and safety need to be considered [...]

Response to Instruction and Intervention can be Effective and Efficient for all Learners

Response to Instruction and Intervention is a philosophical framework that promotes effective instruction for all students and early intervention that is efficient and effective for those students that need additional support to succeed academically and behaviorally.  Response to Instruction and Intervention is becoming a national phenomenon.  Reform is a common term heard in relevant discussion [...]

Segment Sounds with Kids to Help them Read and Spell

Research has revealed that there are specific activities that help children build phonemic awareness.  Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds-phonemes in spoken words.  Blending phonemes is very important for student to do; as is segmenting phonemes.  Phoneme segmentation requires children to break a word into its separate sounds, [...]

Phoneme Blending leads to Improved Reading Achievement

Phoneme blending is an activity that requires children to listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes, and then combine the phonemes to form a word.  Parents can help teach phonemic awareness by supporting their child with blending activities at home.  Start by modeling how to blend two phonemes together like “a”, “t” for the [...]

Phoneme Awareness can be Taught by Parents

Phoneme awareness is an early reading skill that you can work on at home with your child.  Specifically, a phoneme is the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words.  Phonemes are basic sounds.  Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in [...]

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