Re: [MOSAIC] Processing Question

2012-04-21 Thread Donna Petree
The latent effects of surgery or radiation on the brain may be the problem. Good cells have been destroyed along with the bad cells and new neuro-pathways need to be constructed. It's a cost-benefit issue for these students, and other "blocks" may exist. Does this student receive special education

Re: [MOSAIC] Processing Question

2012-04-21 Thread Kim Zilch
You have no idea how excited I am to read this. I am going to give the parents something else to inquire about when they see the neropsych! This was so helpful. No, he does not receive special education. However, he does get outside tutoring that his parents pay for out of pocket. With the new

Re: [MOSAIC] Processing Question

2012-04-21 Thread Patricia Kimathi
Donna, Can you tell me where we can get information on how parents can investigate this Through the years I have seen children like this and when I asked their parents questions there was always a serious illness somewhere in their early childhood. But I have never seen research or even a

Re: [MOSAIC] Processing Question

2012-04-21 Thread Donna Petree
I read an article on the Neuro-Cognitive Effects of Cancer Treatment in Children by Tom McLean, MD (who happened to be the doctor who had treated my two students.) Nov, 2002. To summarize, the latent effects include but are not limited to: decline in IQ scores, slow rate of processing, inattention

Re: [MOSAIC] Processing Question

2012-04-21 Thread Donna Petree
Here's another information link: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/lateeffects/HealthProfessional/page4 On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Donna Petree wrote: > I read an article on the Neuro-Cognitive Effects of Cancer Treatment in > Children by Tom McLean, MD (who happened to be

Re: [MOSAIC] Processing Question

2012-04-21 Thread donnfox
Wrong Donna! I believe the email you are referring to is from Donna Petree Sent from my HTC Status™ on AT&T - Reply message - From: "Patricia Kimathi" To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" Subject: [MOSAIC] Processing Question Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2012 12:02 pm D

Re: [MOSAIC] Common core report card

2012-04-21 Thread Mena
I would love to see report card based on common core...drmarinac...@aol.com... Philomena Marinaccio-Eckel, Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University Dept. of Teaching and Learning College of Education 2912 College Ave. ES 214 Davie, FL 33314 Phone: 954-236-1070 Fax: 954-2

Re: [MOSAIC] Math Common Core/Literacy

2012-04-21 Thread LINDA CASTALDO
  I wasn't on the team, but that's what they liked the best -Original Message-From: "Ken & Jenni Yingling" Sent: 4/20/2012 9:07:00 PMTo: Cc: Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Math Common Core/Literacy We are looking at Go Math and My Math. What made you decide on Go Math?-Original Message---