Tips for Teaching Students with Learning Differences
This reference sheet identifies some of the signs of learning differences and provides strategies you can use to help students reach their full potential.
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Learning Differences & Me: Knowing My Strengths and Challenges
It’s important to know what your strengths are so you can use them in ways that help you, your friends and family at school and home.
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Learning Differences & Me: My Perfect Day
It’s important children with learning differences to take time to recognize and celebrate their strengths.
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ADHD and Me: How to Talk About Your Strengths
A tool to help youth with ADHD discover, appreciate and talk about their many strengths.
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American Library Association Recognizes Books for Their Portrayal of the Disability Experience
The American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of the 2023 Schneider Family Book Awards.
Parenting Tips for ADHD: Do’s and Don’ts
Raising a child with ADHD isn’t like traditional childrearing. Normal rule-making and household routines can become almost impossible, depending on the type and severity of your child’s symptoms, so you’ll need to adopt different approaches. Read more ›
ADHD 101 – Why Kids With ADHD Need Different Parenting Strategies [video]
The “usual” parenting strategies are often less effective for children with ADHD. In this video Erin Gonzales, PhD, a psychologist from the PEARL Clinic at Seattle Children’s Hospital, discusses common challenges and changes parents and caregivers can make to help a child with ADHD stay engaged and set them up for success. Read more ›
Supporting the Emotional Needs of Kids With Learning Disabilities
When kids are diagnosed with a learning disability we naturally worry about how it will affect their school performance. What we often don’t think about, but should, is how having a learning disability may affect children emotionally. Read more ›
Book: Parenting Bright Kids Who Struggle in School: A Strength-Based Approach to Helping Your Child Thrive and Succeed
Parenting Bright Kids Who Struggle in School guides parents through the challenging and often unfamiliar landscape of raising kids who have been labeled with learning differences, including dyslexia, ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, and more. Read more ›
The Autism/ADHD Podcast [web resource]
Children with ADHD and Autism often require a different approach. In the Autism/ADHD podcast series, behavior expert Holly Blanc Moses shares her strategies to help children diagnosed with autism and ADHD effectively improve their behavior, emotional health, social skills, and academic performance. Read more ›
