LD Resources

Imy F. Wax, M.S., LCPC, CEP
Imy F. Wax & Associates
1320 Carol Lane
Deerfield, IL 60015
847-945-0913
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imy@imywax.com
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Services available in the U.S., Canada and internationally. Best-selling co-author of the “K & W Guide to Colleges for Students with Learning Disabilities or ADHD.” Nationally known Educational Consultant and Psychotherapist, assisting families to find the best environments and opportunities for children, adolescents and adults.

Learning Disability placements, traditional and non-traditional boarding schools, therapeutic programs/schools, wilderness programs, colleges, alternative living environments, residential treatment programs (substance abuse, eating disorders and more.)

For this disabled job seeker, it’s all about networking

It’s also all about the sound of his voice: he gets calls from people interested in his resume but his dysarthria scares them away. That’s his (and my) theory anyway. No way to prove it but it makes sense. It would have scared me before I knew David.

But, for doing back end web development work and problem solving, voice is less critical than it might be in a sales or support position. It’s interesting that few people can easily get over the voice issue to see his skills as separate from his voice.

Bullied is a documentary film that chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today. It can become a cornerstone of anti-bullying efforts in middle and high schools.

Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History

As one who was bullied this documentary is very meaningful to me.

As Private Tutoring Booms, Parents Look at the Returns

While tutors once focused on helping children who were falling behind in particular subjects or had a learning disability, they are now being used far more to guide students through particularly tough courses, insure their grades are equal to or above their peers’ and, in the end, polish a child’s college application. This costs parents a lot of money, and the question is, What returns should they expect for their investment? And how does that desire mesh with what is right?

Before I go further, I want to address the question of fairness, which is ever-present in the world of high-priced tutors. The simple answer is that it is surely not fair that wealthy children can have private tutors when poor children cannot.

iHelp for Autism

Though there are other computers designed for children with autism, a growing number of experts say that the iPad is better. It’s cheaper, faster, more versatile, more user-friendly, more portable, more engaging, and infinitely cooler for young people. “I just couldn’t imagine not introducing this to a parent of a child who has autism,” says Tammy Mastropietro, a speech pathologist based outside Boston who uses the technology with numerous clients. She sees it as a game changer for those with autism, particularly those most severely affected.

Fantastic. Universal design wins.

Actually, this is my life, sort of.

Fascinating ADD support site: TotallyADD.com. Note that some of the videos are slow to completely load but they’re worth waiting for.

This is an incredible interview with Christopher Finch who has just published a biography of Close and the artist Chuck Close.

Jeffery Brown does an excellent job here and Close, who has various disabilities including severe learning issues shines. What an amazing mind he has.

The NewsHour post is here: Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch.

My sincerest apologies to anyone who attempted to find this web site and got a domain parking service. The site never went down, the domain “ldresources.org” did.

It was my own oversight. For those interested, let me explain.

How it works
Web sites live on computers called web servers. A web server usually sits in a “server farm” (possibly hundreds of servers) at a web hosting company and thousands of web sites live on those servers.

Each web site has a specific IP address which can actually be used to find it on the web. IP addresses look something like this:

104.222.33333 (not a real one, don’t try using it)

A domain name, like www.apple.com or www.ldresources.org has to be registered and it lives on a different kind of server called a DNS server (domain name service).

In the registry for each domain on the DNS server is contact information for the person or company who owns the domain and, most importantly, a pointer or an association between the domain and the IP address where the web site that corresponds with that domain lives. That might be:

www.ldresources.org = 104.222.33333

So, when a user like you types “www.ldresources.org” into their browser, the browser sends a request out which is routed to a DNS server which looks up that address and finds the corresponding IP address and takes you to (well, gets information from) the web server holding the site.

So, if for some reason a DNS entry for a particular web site goes down then access to that web site goes away, even if the web site is still running fine on its web server.

What happened?
What happened was a simple oversight on my part. I’ve had the two domains: “ldresources.com” and “ldresources.org” registered for close to ten years. Billing happened through an email address associated with the domains: richard@ldresources.org. Each year a bill was sent to that address and I paid it. Simple.

When I switched my email to a gmail account I had gmail pick up mail send to “richard@ldresources.org” but about a year ago I somehow thought that no one is sending mail there anymore, all that address gets is spam, so why check it, why not just kill it? So, I deleted the piece of gmail that checks that account and of course, missed the domain service bill.

My domain expired through lack of payment. When I figured it out it was this past weekend so I had to wait until today to call the company hosting my domains to pay the bill and get things working again.

That’s the story. It has absolutely nothing to do with learning disabilities, everything to do with making a mistake. I forgive myself, I hope you will forgive me too.

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