Bob Zenhausern's Blog – April 2009 Archive (2)

I am a retired professor of neuropsychology who developed a research program on the relationship between the brain and learning disability. I want to outline one particular study and show its importance in how we diagnose and teach the children we now label learning disabled.



An identified group of poor readers who had clear phonological deficits in reading were compared to average readers on two simple tasks. A group of words preselected to be in the sight vocabulary of all… Continue

It is 1980 and the web was not invented, but the Bulletin Board System (BBS) flourished. They served the same function of a website, email, file transfer, graphic all in text. Most were served by a single phone line and there was no communication among the BBS.



Nostalgic Asides

I remember the Sister BBS in Staten Island, NY had to close down because of a hacker.

I found a 300 baud modem a little slow and felt the need to upgrade soon. Ancient history.

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