“No thank you. Don’t bother to send me the report about the testing results. I won’t understand it anyway. I’ll just listen at the meeting.”
Those were the words of more than one parent I spoke with whose children had been tested to see if they needed special education services. I could always hear the discouragement […]

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You’ve just received a call from your child’s teacher. As your blood pounds in your ears, you hear her explain how she has noticed your child having difficulty with some academic subject in school. Your child is not understanding math or reading the way the other children do. So she would like your permission to […]

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All too often, children with learning disabilities are seen through their weaknesses.
Like anyone else, however, they have many strengths. It is of the greatest importance to focus on the strengths that your child has and show them to other people. It will not only to help others who are involved in her life understand her […]

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Little Suzy has really been having a hard time getting some of her assignments done. When she reads in class, she struggles with many words, and her mother reported at conference time that Suzy spends hours each night on homework.

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You have just received a call from your child’s teacher explaining that she has noticed your child having difficulty in school. Your child is not understanding math or reading the way the other children do. So she would like your permission to proceed with testing to find out if he has a learning disability.

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Like anything else in life, there’s a method to the special education process. It was put in place to help people who deal with learning disabilities get the best services possible. In order to help you understand this method, here’s a simplified version of the Special Education process.

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You are sitting with the professionals who know about learning disabilities. They have been explaining what they will be looking for when they test your child.
“We look for an aptitude-achievement discrepancy as well as a processing deficit,” one of them explains.

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Did you know that you are the most important person in your child’s life? Of course you did.
But did you know that parents of children with learning disabilities can also be their child’s most effective advocate.

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Advocate: you’ve probably heard the term before. But what does it mean to you?
Advocating happens when you speak on behalf of someone else. You say for them what they can’t say for themselves.

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Before my daughter was born my house was so tidy and immaculate that you could eat off the floor! Dishes were done immediately (no dishwasher here!), the toilet was cleaned every morning and the house was dusted and vacuumed quite frequently.

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