My Best Tip for Living with Disabilities
Every child has the ability to achieve beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Every time I find myself thinking one of my students may have difficulty with a task, I realize I'm not part of their solution!
My Best Tip for Making a Difference
We must reach students on a deep level to show them they can be successful. We must show them how to persist and draw on their gifts to succeed in life and in school.
Why I Care About Disabilities - My Story
Students with ADD, ADHD, autism, LD and other special learning needs have the right to believe in their innate intelligence and skill, but too often they do not. Working together, we can put an end to this inequity. But we must start by knowing that every child can succeed, given the right help!
About My Blog
Dr. Kari Miller has been teaching students with special learning needs for almost 30 years. She is a board certified educational therapist and director of Miller Educational Excellence, an educational therapy center in Los Angeles that specializes in guiding special needs students to believe in their own success, achieve in school, and change their lives. Visit her website: http://millereducationalexcellence.com
Email Dr. Miller: klmiller555@sbcglobal.net
What's Great About My Blog
Learn ways parents and professionals can support children with special educational needs such as autism, ADD or ADHD, dyslexia, learning disabilities and emotional or social difficulties. Each post provides valuable strategies to help children become academically successful, all written by experts in the field of special education.
Advice
- When special needs students rekindle their belief in themselves, they give more effort to school work. As their confidence grows, their skills grow as well. This cycle of success creates a platform from which students “play full out” in academics. They study more, they give more focused, deliberate attention to tasks, and they produce work of higher quality. Ultimately, students begin to believe they can achieve their dreams for the future, and their choices improve to meet the challenge of the lives they envision for themselves.
