Learning Styles

Explore different learning styles and how to support your child's best means of learning.

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Learning About Learning Disabilities and Special Needs in Children

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6 Strategies to Help Your Child with LD Succeed

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Multiple Intelligences - Linguistic

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Multiple Intelligences - Intrapersonal

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A Guide to Testing Accommodations
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Find out how to be an advocate for environmental changes in the classroom in order to level the playing field for kids who think differently.
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Child Behaves Differently at Home Than at School

There are a number of options regarding special education versus regular kindergarten.
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Helping a Gifted Underachiever

If gifted education is mandated in your state, a child who qualifies as gifted cannot be removed from the program.
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Early Signs of Dyslexia?

Word reversal or directional reversals are common in younger children, and many outgrow the problem.
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Is Dyslexia Hereditary?

Find out whether individuals can inherit the condition of dyslexia from a parent.
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Family History of Dyslexia

When a school does not honor your legal right to request an evaluation, there are steps you can take.
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Gifted Son Being Punished by Teacher

A parent seeks advice after the teacher tells her gifted child he must "earn" the right to receive more challenging schoolwork.
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Gifted Four-Year-Old?

The best way to determine intellectual giftedness is through formal educational assessment testing.
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Expert Advice: Can Bright Children Have Extra Motor Activity?

In this Expert Advice column, licensed social worker Noreen Joslyn answers your questions about extra motor behavior in young children.
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School Won't Put Child in Gifted Program

It is sometimes necessary for parents to obtain outside private testing for achievement scores and IQ, when they suspect their child is gifted.
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504 and IEP Interpretations

When a school district refuses to honor a student with a legitimate Section 504 plan in place, it's time to contact a lawyer.
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Teachers Aren't Helping, Despite IEP

When your child's teachers are an obstacle to the IEP, there are steps you can take.
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LD, Gifted Testing, and the Law

Criteria for gifted class placement can vary greatly from district to district.
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Dyslexia and Math

There are many resources available to help teachers bypass the difficulties that children with LD can experience in math.
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Finding Books for an Advanced Reader

Finding topics of interest is a common problem for young readers with advanced ability.
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Homeschooling a Dyslexic Child

Yes, there may be advantages to homeschooling your dyslexic child, and no, in most states you do not have to be specially trained to teach your child.
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Moving Ahead with an IEP

Even when a learning disabled child is making little progress, for their social health it may be better to keep them with children their own age.
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Confidence Problem or Learning Disability?

Testing may be required to determine the cause of your child's reading problems.

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