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Today's schools face numerous, difficult challenges in preparing students for their roles in the world. Content explosion - the ever-expanding amount of information being added to world knowledge daily - can be overwhelming when content coverage is a priority. Combined with the pressures of state standards, mandatory testing, and school reform prevalent in today's educational community, educators can feel ill-equipped to meet the needs of their students.

IDEA: What Parents of Students with Learning Disabilities Need to Know and Understand

 

Life Success for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Teacher Guide

A Teachers Guide

Parents’ Top Tips for Managing Interpersonal Conflict as You Advocate for Your Child

In the course of seeking help for your child with learning or attention problems, have you ever experienced conflict with someone at your child’s school, in the community, or even in your own family? If so, rest assured you are not alone. The complexity, emotions, and energy involved in parenting a child with special needs can take a toll on you and your relationships with others. It’s not uncommon for misunderstandings and conflict to occur. The Collective Wisdom of Parents Advocating for Their Kids

For Teachers: Understanding Auditory Processing Disorders in Children

In recent years, there has been a dramatic upsurge in professional and public awareness of Auditory Processing Disorders (APD), also referred to as Central Auditory Processing Disorders (CAPD).

Early Warning Signs of Learning Disabilities

Becoming aware of the warning signs of learning disabilities and getting children the necessary help early on can be key to a child's future.

The Child Find Mandate: What Does It Mean to You?

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act includes the Child Find mandate. Child Find requires all school districts TO identify, locate and evaluate all children with disabilities, regardless of the severity of their disabilities. This obligation to identify all children who may need special education services exists even if the school is not providing special education services to the child.

Program aims to prevent kids from being rushed into special education

Program aims to prevent kids from being rushed into special education TIMES DAILY News By Lisa Singleton-Rickman Staff Writer Published: May 27. 2008 4:30AM School districts across the country are adopting early intervention programs in hopes of steering some children away from expensive special education classes.

Reading Tips for Parents of Preschoolers

Read early and read often. The early years are critical to developing a lifelong love of reading. It's never too early to begin reading to your child! The tips below offer some fun ways you can help your child become a happy and confident reader. Try a new tip each week. See what works best for your child.

Research Trends: Learning Disabilities and the Family

Parental stress and sibling rivalry are often mentioned as concerns among families raising kids with learning disabilities. Now we can learn what research reveals about LD's impact on the family.

Summer Reading Tips for Parents

Summer shouldn't mean taking a break from learning, especially when it comes to reading. Studies show that most students experience a loss of reading skills over the summer months, but children who continue to read actually gain skills.

Dyslexia and High School

Having dyslexia means that one has trouble making accurate and automatic memories for print. Spelling words requires an accurate memory. Even copying from the board is tedious, slow, and oftentimes, not very accurate.

Making the Most of Your Parent-Teacher Conference

Learn what issues to focus on and how to plan for a productive parent-teacher conference.

Ambitious New Campaign Seeks to Ensure Kids with Learning Disabilities Succeed in School and Beyond

 

Gifted LD Student

A gifted LD student is someone who is highly intelligent (and is expected to achieve well in school) but struggles in school due to some form of processing difficulty.

Court Affirms Reimbursement for Special Education

 

Eligibility for protection under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act became broader January 2009

Did you know that, effective January 2009, eligibility for protection under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act became broader?

Facilitating Successful Outcomes for Children with Learning Disabilities: What Parents Can Do Now

 

Learning Strategies for Home and School

 

Reading and Literacy Strategies

 

Self-Advocacy Strategies

Children with learning disabilities are more likely to succeed when they learn to speak up for themselves.