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Find answers, tips, and tools you need to support your child with a learning disability and help him become more successful in school and in life. Discover special education instructional materials, methods,and programs for students with learning disabilities.
LD SAT - Test Prep and Strategies for Students with Learning …
LD SAT - Test Prep and Strategies for Students with Learning Disabilities by Paul Osborn, Ed. M. is a comprehensive guide to preparation for the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Read a review of this book.
Flash Card Teaching Strategies - Strategies for Flash Card Teaching
Flash card teaching is an effective strategy to learn many skills. Learn this easy flash card teaching strategy to help you or your child learn more effectively.
Tutor Funding - Must the School Pay for a Tutor for My Child?
Tutor services are costly. A parent asks if her child's school is required to pay for a private tutor. Find out if schools are required to pay for a private tutor.
Special Education Teacher Secrets - What Special Education Teachers W…
Special education teachers have secrets. It's true that special education teachers cannot or will not tell you everything you should know about your child's special education program. Learn ten of the top secrets your special education teacher wish you knew.
Gross Motor Skills - Readers Share Gross Motor Skill Tips and…
Gross motor skill development is important for everyone. Learn about gross motor skills and share tips for developing motor skills, working with a physical therapist, and more.
Summer School Activities - Keep Learning During Summer Break
Summer school activities are a great way to keep your child from falling behind during summer school break. Learn about the importance of preventing regression and fun ways to keep your child learning with fun summer school activities.
Sign Language Resources - Glowing Gloves Enable Sign Language in the Dark
Sign Language Resources - Read a review of Glow Gloves, an effective sign language tool that enables communication in the dark and can be used for other educational purposes as well.
Blog Carnival Guidelines - How to Submit Blog Carnival Entries
Learn how to submit entries to the parenting and family blog carnival. Find submission guidelines.
You're Invited to the All About Parenting Blog Carnival
The About.com Parenting and Family Channel features a monthly blog carnival featuring helpful information and tips from the best bloggers on the net. If you're a blogger, we'd love for you to join us! Learn how.
Free and Low Cost Resources for Teaching Kids with Learning Disabilities
Free and Low Cost Teaching Resources - Looking for cheap resources to help you teach and entertain your learning disabled child? Look no further. Here you'll find many quality resources for free downloads, audiobooks, worksheets, and much more.
Summer Fun Learning - Create Your Own Camp Activities to Teach and Entertain
Whether you're just battling summer boredom or if you want to keep learning going over school break with a little fun on the side, these activities can help.
Teach Writing Skills - Develop Writing Abilities During School Breaks
Strengthening your learning disabled child's writing skills over school breaks is important to prevent loss of writing and fine motor skills and to help your child be better prepared for the next school year.
Cramming for Tests - Does Cramming Improve Exam and Test Grades
With our lives being so busy and schedules being so tight, most students have tried to cram for an examination at school. Is cramming effective? Learn more about cramming and alternatives that may help improve grades on tests.
Improve Your Writing Skills - Write a Better Essay - Improve Writing Grades
Whether you are a student with learning disabilities in writing, just looking for ways to improve your writing grades on classroom papers and assignments, or studying for upcoming written exams, learning how to write a three point five paragraph paper will help you get better grades and improve your writing skills. Learn how!
Make Your Own Multisensory Materials: Tactile Writing Tray
A tactile writing tray is a multisensory teaching tool for preschoolers and students in early elementary grades. It can be used to teach children to make letters, shapes, and used in little balls to represent numbers in math activities. Learn how to make this versatile material with this easy recipe.
Thinking Skills Games for Home, School, and Travel
Discover thinking skills games to help your child learning disabilities to practice math, language, and reasoning skills in a fun and engaging way.
The ABC Game Works Memory, Language, and Thinking Skills
Learn about the ABC Game. It is a great tool for helping your children develop stronger memory, language, and thinking skills. It requires no materials and can be adapted to meet the learning needs of children of all ages.
Multisensory Techniques Can Help Students with Learning Disabilities
Learn about multisensory teaching techniques and how they can help students with learning disabilities and language weaknesses.
Ways to Teach Math to Children with Language Processing Deficits
Learn ways parents can support learning for their children with language and auditory processing deficits. Find easy ways to teach language concepts and improve reasoning skills.
Teach Your Child Mnemonics to Improve Memory
Learn about mnemonics, what they are, and how they can help students with learning disabilities improve their memory and recall.
Quick Tips to Adapt Instruction for School and Home
Discover teaching tips for students with Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities. These tips can be used at home or in school.
Adapt Instructional Materials for Students with Language Processing Deficits
Learn tips to adapt instructional materials to help students with language processing deficits.
Tips to Communicate Positively with Your LD Child
Children with learning disabilities may have more struggles in school than most kids. Develop positive communication practices in your family before problems begin, and you'll weather them more easily. Learn strategies to build that communication.
Information and Strategies for Differentiated Instruction
Learn about differentiated instruction and how it can be used to meet the needs of special education students in both regular and special education classrooms.
Deliver Great Presentations
Presenting before a group causes jitters for most of us. Students with learning disabilities are no exception. Regardless of your child’s specific type of learning disability, here are some tips to help her create and deliver a terrific presentation for school.
Make School Break Learning Fun
As schools recess for breaks across the country, we can almost hear the collective shouts of glee as students take to the parks and hang with friends. Working on academics may be the last thing on their minds, but work we must to avoid regression. Here are some fun ideas to sharpen their skills during school breaks! (Did I see some eyes rolling out there?)
Schoolbell.com's Sight Word Tools Using the Dolch Word List
This website contains a "Dolch Kit" with many practice activities for students to use as they learn the Dolch, 220 high frequency words. The Dolch high frequency list was published by Edward William Dolch, Ph.D. in his book, Problems in Reading, The Garrard Press, 1948.
ABC Teach.com Offers Free Worksheets for Download
This website offer many free, printable worksheets for parents, students, and teachers in all academic areas.
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