Family: Patio Design – expanding your home outdoors

Patio Design – expanding your home outdoors

Written by Nicholas Webb

By: Nicholas Webb

A patio can be just like another room in your house. Effective patio design can mean that your increase repparttar floor space of your home, by adding an outside room that allows you to entertain like never before. A patio can just be a rectangular slab of concrete with some plastic chairs and griller, but it can also be so much more.

What comes to mind when you think of a patio?

Patio design gives you repparttar 110969 opportunity to create an outside living area – an extension of your home – for entertaining and relaxing all year round. For instance, people who like to entertain may want to consider a patio with an undercover kitchen and dining area. By adding a barbecue grill, a built in fridge and some quality outdoor furniture, repparttar 110970 patio can, in itself, become a feature of your home.

When commencing a new patio design, it is important to remember that your new outdoor entertaining area does not need to be expensive. There are a variety of different patio surfaces to fit a particular style or budget, including concrete pavers, natural clay stones and bricks. There is no need to stick to one type of paving or surface - experiment. Pebbles, gravels, bricks and tiles, can all be incorporated. A contrasting brick edge can also be effective. Similarly, patio shades need not be extensive, just enough to cover repparttar 110971 main cooking and eating areas; after all, why block out repparttar 110972 view of your gorgeous garden in repparttar 110973 midday sun or repparttar 110974 stars in repparttar 110975 sky on a clear night.

Alias: 'Aptitude'

Written by Sandy Gauvin

Be aware. You may become totally overwhelmed when you get repparttar

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special education testing on your child. There is a lot of "stuff" on that report! And much of it sounds like a foreign language to many people.

You get one piece repparttar 110969 results from repparttar 110970 Intelligence part of repparttar 110971 test. This is extremely important information, but know that it will most likely come in disguise.

One of its disguises, or aliases, might be "Broad Cognitive Ability". Another may be "Aptitude." But, basically, they are measures of repparttar 110972 same thing - your child's ability to process and learn information. So, for repparttar 110973 sake of keeping things simple, let's just call it "aptitude."

As I've stated many times, in order for a child to be considered learning disabled, he has to show an average "aptitude" for learning. He must have repparttar 110974 same ability to learn as well as any other child of his age or grade. An average aptitude score would be about 100, with anything between 85 and 115 being in repparttar 110975 average range.

There are many different tests that measure a child's aptitude. One of these tests is repparttar 110976 WISC-III. The Performance, or Perceptual Organization, section is repparttar 110977 part that measures aptitude. It is divided into subtests, or smaller tests, and they assess different things that make up a person's aptitude.

Another common test used to measure aptitude is repparttar 110978 Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery - Revised. The aptitude section of this test is called repparttar 110979 Tests of Cognitive Ability, and repparttar 110980 overall aptitude score is called "Broad Cognitive Ability". It also has smaller tests called subtests, to measure aptitude, but they measure aptitude in a little different way than repparttar 110981 WISC does.

There are other tests to determine your child's aptitude that don't involve reading or writing. Sometimes these tests are given if there is a language problem that might interfere with getting a true picture of repparttar 110982 child's ability.

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