Teachers: Help Your Students Write
Three research-based practices are particularly helpful to students with learning disabilities, according to Steven Graham, Curry Ingraham Professor at Vanderbilt University. Teachers should:
- explicitly teach students how to plan, revise, and edit their text,
- assign students specific and achievable goals for each assignment, and
- teach students word processing and allow them to use it for assignments.
These are three of the eleven recommendations made in a newly released report titled "Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High School" which was written by the Alliance for Excellent Education. Graham, first author of the report, explained that the research showed that students with learning disabilities benefited from the same strategies as all students, but were particularly likely to be helped from the three recommendations.
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Help your child succeed in life
Why does one person with a learning disability end up with a rewarding career, friends, and financial stability when another similar person ends up lonely and unemployed? The Frostig Center studied people with learning disabilities and identified six success attributes that made the difference. Life Success for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Parent's Guide can help you help your child with learning disabilities develop self-awareness, proactivity, perseverance, goal setting, using support systems, and emotional coping strategies.
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Teachers we appreciate
Teacher Appreciation Day is May 8th. We are asking our readers to write in and share a story about a teacher who deserves some appreciation. As a parent, has a particular teacher gone the extra mile to help your child? As a person with LD, have you been inspired in some way by a teacher in the past? In May, we will randomly select one entrant to receive a $100 gift certificate to our online store.
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Listen to our experts
The Tech Expert, Dr. Tracy Gray answers her first set of educational technology questions - about voice recognition software, helping a child hear text on the computer, and access to technology for homeschooled children.
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Matt Cohen answers new legal questions. Can the school send a child home because he did not take his medication that day? Must accommodations be made on tests that are needed to graduate? Read a sample letter that can help you get your child evaluated.
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Dr. Larry Silver presents new responses to questions from a mother who didn't feel right about her child's diagnosis, a person who thought they might have Asperger's syndrome, and a parent who was worried about his depressed son who couldn't find a job or get into college.
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