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Building Self-Esteem with LD Children
Positive self-esteem is as important to success in school and on the job as the mastery of individual skills. And ...
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Helping Children with LD Find Social Success
"The primary need of all human beings is to be liked and accepted by other human beings," says Richard ...
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What Can I Do If I Suspect My Child Has a Learning Disability?
With early recognition and targeted intervention, children with learning disabilities can be helped so that they can ...
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Learning Disabilities: Should I Be Concerned?
As a parent, one of the most important things you can do to help your child get a good education is to understand how ...
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What are Learning Disabilities?
Learning disabilities (LDs) are real. They affect the brain's ability to receive, process, store, respond to, and ...
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Learning Disabilities Checklist
Most people have problems with learning and behavior from time to time. During the school years, parents and educators ...
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Learning Disabilities
Sara's StoryWhen Sara was in the first grade, her teacher started teaching the students how to read. Sara's parents ...
Source: National Dissemination Center for Children With Disabilities
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The Truth About Bullying and Learning Disabilities
No child is immune to harassment or victimization from peers, but children diagnosed with an LD are at a greater risk ...
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Understanding Research Related to Children with Disabilities
So you want to use research findings when you make decisions affecting children with disabilities---what's the best ...
Source: National Dissemination Center for Children With Disabilities
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Other Forms of Parent Involvement
Parents As TeachersTypically developing children learn many skills that children with disabilities do not learn without ...
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Poor Teaching
Poor teaching involves far more than an inappropriate match between the school's curriculum and the students' needs. It ...
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Efficient and Inefficient Learner Strategies
Many students with learning disabilities are inefficient, inactive, and disorganized learners. They don't know how to ...
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Five Homework Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities
Homework is one aspect of the general education curriculum that has been widely recognized as important to academic ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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Transition to Kindergarten Parent Guides: What If There Are Concerns About My Child’s Development?
When you have concerns about your child’s growth and learning: Discuss your concerns with your child’s ...
Source: Michigan Department of Education
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Developing Your Child's IEP
Being a parent is the most wonderful-and hardest-job in the world. If you have a child with special needs, your job is ...
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Developmental Delays: When You Sense Something Wrong
As reluctant as your child's teacher may be to admit it, there are a few milestones teachers see as possible indicators...
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Troubled Teens or Learning Different?
Fifteen to 20 percent of the U.S. population has a learning difference such as ADD, dyslexia, or any number of...
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Organizations and Websites for Learning Disabilities
Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA), 4156 Library Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15234. www.ldanatl.org This...
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Transition Resources for Students with Specific Disabilities
The transition suite has other stand-alone pages as well. We've tried not to list the same resources in different pages,...
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Memory and Children with Learning Disabilities
Models of Memory The importance of memory skills in academic learning cannot be overestimated (Liddell & Rasmussen,...
