Working with Families
Parenting a child with a learning disability can be challenging. We've gathered information that educators can share with parents to help them provide the best support for their child at home and at school.
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Practical Tips to Help Your Child Learn Better and to Value Education
This summer, as you sit on the beach, or by the pool, or under the cool shade of a tree, thinking about how to help your child do better in the next school year, you may want to consider some of the practical tips that I have found to be helpful with my own family, and with the children I treat. These suggestions apply to all children at all ages and are not specifically geared toward any one temperament, learning style or emotional state.
Preventing Antisocial Behavior in Disabled and At-Risk
Preventing Parent Burn Out: Model for Teaching Effective Coping Strategies
Questions to Ask the Professionals
Raisin' Brain: Maintaining Homes for All Kinds of Minds
School is not the only arena in which children's minds need to be nurtured and expanded. Equally vital is the kind of education and brain building that a student undergoes at home.
Response to Intervention (RTI): A Primer for Parents
Learn what questions to ask about Response to Intervention (RTI), an approach to helping struggling learners that is gaining momentum in schools across the country. This article from the National Association of School Psychologists tells you the most important features of the process, key terms, and RTI's relationship to special education evaluation.
Sample letter: Writing to Discuss a Problem
Sample Letters: Filing a Complaint with the State Department of Education
Sample Letters: Requesting A Change of Placement
Sample Letters: Requesting a Due Process Hearing
Sample Letters: Requesting a Meeting to Review the Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Sample Letters: Requesting an Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE) at Public Expense
Sample Letters: Requesting an Initial Evaluation for Special Education Services
Sample Letters: Requesting Mediation
Sample Letters: Requesting Prior Written Notice
Sample Letters: Requesting Your Child's Records
Sample Letters: Writing a Follow-up Letter
Sample Letters: Writing a Positive Feedback Letter
Schooling the Learning-Disabled Child Abroad
For parents of children with severe learning disabilities, dyslexia, problems with their own language and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), moving abroad causes great difficulties but can, at times, also bring unexpected gifts.