How to Help Your Child with LD Have a Happy Holiday
The holidays are a time for fun and togetherness, but for children with LD who also struggle with social problems, this part of the year can be difficult and lonely.
In How to Help Your Child with LD Have a Happy Holiday, Dale Brown offers tips on prepping kids for parties that may be overstimulating and finding ways to make them feel included in every celebration.
Also, visit the Behavior and Social Skills page to learn more on fostering positive social interactions.
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Creating Learning Traditions
This holiday season, consider starting family traditions such as these that promote literacy and make reading fun.
Rick Lavoie's Tales from the Road
In this first podcast, A New Year, A New Future, Lavoie explains why LD doesn't go away on the weekends.
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The Wonderful Gift by Sandy Gauvin
The little girl danced on her tippy-toes across the stone walk as her short, dark curls bounced in the summer breeze. Her mother smiled as she thought what a wonderful gift she had been given in that little girl.If she had only known then what she knows now.
