Life Success For Students with Learning Disabilities: A Parent’s Guide [downloadable]

LD OnLine offers a guide for parents on how to help their children succeed titled Life Success for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Parent’s Guide. It was developed by the Frostig Center and based on more than twenty years of ground-breaking research on the lives of children and adults with learning disabilities. This is offered to you as part of LD OnLine’s efforts to bring you the latest research to help you raise your children with learning disabilities.

Over forty students were studied over their lifetime; when they entered the Frostig Center, when they left, ten years after graduation, and twenty years after graduation. Researchers rated the student’s lives objectively through interviews and studying public records. They surveyed outcomes such as years of school completed and employment results. They listened carefully to what the students said during face to face interviews. All of this data was analyzed to determine what it actually takes for people with learning disabilities to succeed.

Learn how to help your children develop the six success attributes that were found to really matter; self awareness, proactivity, perseverance, goal setting, using support systems, and emotional coping strategies. These attributes were found to be more important than IQ and grades.

Use the links below learn more about the following:

What is success?
What are the success attributes?
Self-awareness
Proactivity
Perseverance
Goal-setting
Presence and use of support systems
Emotional coping strategies
How can a child develop success attributes?
Self-awareness
Proactivity
Perseverance
Goal-setting
Presence and use of support systems
Emotional coping strategies

Source: LD Online | Life Success for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Parent’s Guide, http://www.ldonline.org/article/Life_Success_For_Students_With_Learning_Disabilities%3A_A_Parent%27s_Guide | ©2019 WETA

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