Pupils with special educational needs (SEN) are being failed by mainstream schools

 Μainstream schools fail to help children with special educational needs (SEN) reach their full potential, is what their parents  believe, according to a report published today, 14th dec. 2014, by The Independent.co.uk. 

A survey of 1,000 parents by the charity Mencap (the UK's leading learning disability charity, working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers), found mainstream schools are failing children with learning disabilities – with 81% of parents saying they are not confident their child's school is helping them do their best.

FingerReader device reads aloud to the blind in real time

MIT's developing FingerReader device helps people with vision impairment by reading  with the swipe of a finger

Published July 08, 2014

Associated Press

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  In this Thursday, June 26, 2014 photos, a model wears a FingerReader ring at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. Researchers designed and developed the instrument, which enables people with visual disabilities to read text printed on paper or electronic devices. (AP Photo Stephan Savoia) (The Associated Press)

100 Search Engines For Academic Research

Back in 2010, we shared with you 100 awesome search engines and research resources in our post: 100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars. It’s been an incredible resource, but now, it’s time for an update. Some services have moved on, others have been created, and we’ve found some new discoveries, too. Many of our original 100 are still going strong, but we’ve updated where necessary and added some of our new favorites, too. Check out our new, up-to-date collection to discover the very best search engine for finding the academic results you’re looking for.

Teach Your Child to Swallow Pills

Sometimes children  have to take a medication that needs to be swallowed. Some medications can be crushed or sprinkled but when medication has an extended release, it must be swallowed to allow time for it to progress through the digestive system before dissolving. The problem is when the child does not know how to swallow pills.  This becomes more difficult, if on top of that, it engages in serious challenging behavior when mother asks the child to do something he does not want to do, and this child happens also to have autism which complicates the entire process.

There is a wonderful pill swallowing technique that has been developed based on research, which can be easily accomplished in a total of 8-10  hours spread over the course of several days.