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10 Ways You Can Advocate For Your Child With A Learning Disability |
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Did you know that you are the most important person in your child’s life? Of course you did. But did you know that parents of children with learning disabilities can also be their child’s most effective advocate. What exactly is an advocate? An advocate is someone who speaks up for someone else, or who acts on behalf of another person. As a parent, you know your child better than anyone else, and you are in the best position to speak for him and act on his behalf. Here are 10 ways you can do that: 1. Realize from the beginning that advocating for your child takes a lot of time. Advocating involves a great deal of research, meeting time, and communication. That’s a given. But the end... |
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Is ADD A Learning Disability? |
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Attention Deficit Disorder, in itself, is not a learning disability. The term "learning disability" typically refers to a perceptual disability, such as an auditory or visual processing disorder, like autism or dyslexia. A person with ADD, however, has no problems perceiving or interpreting information. Therefore, it does not qualify as a learning disability. Although it is often jumbled in with the mass of "disabilities", ADD actually does not hinder the process of learning. A child with ADD can intake information, process it accordingly, and preserve it in memory, just like any other person. The problem comes with getting them to pay attention long enough to hear the ... |
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Use Children's Books To Encourage Kids To Read |
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As most parents know, reading skills are critical for preschool learning and childhood development. Studies have shown that children that are diagnosed with reading problems during their early school years, will continue having reading and learning problems through the 9th grade and beyond. Even more troubling, almost 50 percent of adolescents and young people with criminal records have reading difficulties. Sadly, many of today's kids would rather watch TV or play video games than read a book. Being a bookworm, or even showing an interest in reading, is percieved as a “nerdish” activity. Most of the heros in today’s society are professional athletes, actors, or music icons. But don’t... |
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School for Children with Social Difficulties
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Choosing a school for children with social difficulties is a very difficult task. Parents know that the school they chose will have a big impact on their child's self-confidence, their ability to learn and their childhood experiences. Get it right and you can help them learn and overcome many barriers and many difficulties they may have. Get it wrong and it can become practically a daily nightmare.
What are the options?
There are four ways to teach children with social difficulties:
* Home Education or Private Tutoring * Special Schools for children with learning difficulties * Private Education * Regular State School that has special needs facilities
Each of these schools will have their own set of benefits and disadvantages. If you are looking for a specific type of school that teaches children with social difficulties then you may be lucky to have one close by or unfortunate to find that the closest one is 100 miles away. So your options are limited to what's available or what you are prepared to extend to.
Which option will be best?
This depends on the child as well as the schools that are available to you in your local area. To determine which school is best, parents have to see what their child needs the most and what is going to the best learning experience. Once the parent has a good idea about which school will be best then it is worth giving it time to allow the ups and downs to settle from the initial change. Even if parents make the best choice there may still be problems. Certainly moving children from one school to another to try out the best option is going to cause problems with the constant change.
So the best thing to do to find out which school is best is to do your homework into what the schools are offering. Talk to the headmaster. Get them to be straight with you about what facilities they have, what experience they have with children with social difficulties, how they would handle behavioral problems if they occur. See what the schools are like, if they have places for children to go to when they are feeling bad or want to get away from the noise of the playground.
What are you child's needs?
Each of the school choices can be a valid option and will depend on the needs of the child. For example children that are suffering with social difficulties may chose home schooling where their interaction with others can be more closely controlled. Children that suffer with more severe learning difficulties or concentration levels may need more patient and understanding and so a special needs school may be best. The following is a good checklist for things to consider when considering what type of school may be necessary.
* Physical abilities * Concentration level when learning * Concentration level with others * Ability to interact with others * Ability to conform to rules * Ability to deal with ridicule/bullying * Ability to control own behavior and safety * Ability to be unsupervised * Self confidence and need for motivation
Some seem a little harsh to think about but these are serious issues that should be considered. For example, some children with social difficulties have a tendency to run out of class when their environment feels threatening, so you would not want to send them to a school where they can be easily lost or could spend time unsupervised. Some children are overwhelmed by the size of the school or number of children so you may want to send them to a small school with a small number of children.
Whatever your options are the choice is not an easy one. So if you are deciding between a specialist school that deals only with children with social difficulties, a private school that has a special needs program and achieves great results, a state school that has small class sizes (not likely), or even home education the choice may not be so easy to make. This is why the choice has to come down to the type of child because they could do great things in a low performing school or perform badly in a high performing school.
The best choice is a school that will make them feel the best, the most motivated, the safest and that they get the most from. So whether you chose home schooling, a special school, a private or even regular state school, if you choose a school that allows them to enjoy learning the most then you are not likely to go wrong.
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Could My Child Have A Learning Disability? |
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Before my daughter Michele began attending school, a lady
who was babysitting her noticed things she did (or didn't do)
that weren't quite right developmentally. We were fortunate in that the babysitter had had training
in early childhood education, and she would work with Michele
and her son to help them develop appropriate pre-school skills.
She became concerned that Michele struggled with learning her
alphabet and her numbers. Her small motor skills - things like
using scissors and coloring - weren't up to par. She would
overreact to many situations, and she didn't understand jokes
because she didn't understand words with different meanings. We weren't surprised when she was recommended in first grade
to be evaluated for a learning disability. I have taught hundreds of children with learning disabilities,
and all of them had different combinations of signs. Some of
the younger children just couldn't remember what sound(s) each
letter or combination of letters made. Some couldn't figure out
what certain numbers added up to, or they couldn't remember
their subtraction, multiplication, or division facts, even
though they tried and tried to memorize them. Many of the kids, both younger and older, like Michele, could
read words on a page very well, but they had difficulty
understanding what they read. Then there were others who had
to have help reading the words, but once they read them, they
had no trouble understanding. There were some who were great
readers and writers, but they had an awful time with Math, and
there were some who could do math better than I could, but they
had a terrible time with reading. One thing a majority of them struggled with was organizational
skills. They were... |
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