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Parenting > School Years
5 Things You Can Do at Home to Help Your Child's Learning Challenges
...you could do at home for your child's learning challenge, whether it's dyslexia, ADHD, or autism? What many parents don't realize is that they're in the...situation. Sure, you may not be a teacher or a psychologist, but you are the adult who has the biggest impact on your child's life. And it doesn't matter which...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
My Child Has Dyslexia: Now What?
...he or she has dyslexia?" Many parents...Solutions for Dyslexia, says that children...children with dyslexia know by the first...different. "Every adult I've ever talked...them they had dyslexia and they understood...children they have dyslexia might make their...than someone with dyslexia. They just need...it's so hard." Dyslexia has nothing to...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
Dyslexia and College: How Accommodations Change and What Students Need to Know
...them. The law is designed this way because college students are considered adults responsible for their own academic lives. Students with dyslexia can absolutely...considered adults responsible for their own academic lives. Students with dyslexia can absolutely get the support they need in college, but the process requires...
Health > Mental Health
Anger, Self-Destructive Tendencies, Depression, and Learning Disorders
...and they may internalize these emotions when teachers, parents, and other adults belittle or punish them for self-expression. All this "stifling," if you...put on their happy faces. Emotional and behavioral issues that accompany dyslexia may also be a reaction to frustration or anger with home, school, or social...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
Favorite Technology Tools for Dyslexia
...Bright Solutions for Dyslexia, recommends five favorite...tools for people with dyslexia. These tools allow students...Ideally children with dyslexia would be able to get...notes. Students with dyslexia or other learning disabilities...Speaking Children and adults with dyslexia can use...Children and adults with dyslexia can use Naturally Speaking...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Special Needs App: Dragon Dictation
...see the text appear on the screen. This is a handy app for children and adults who have difficulties with fine motor skills or learning disabilities like...have difficulties with fine motor skills or learning disabilities like dyslexia or dysgraphia. It is not as successful for people who have difficulty speaking,...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
What is Dyslexia?
...Has Dyslexia Dyslexia...Dyslexia Dyslexia is a...and adults. The...recognition of dyslexia can...and adults manage...recognize dyslexia early...What Is Dyslexia? Many...what is dyslexia. Many...with dyslexia just...with dyslexia are...have dyslexia must...truth. Dyslexia is a...based. Dyslexia affects...math, dyslexia makes...Symptoms of Dyslexia The...sign of dyslexia in a...with dyslexia will...has dyslexia is to...
Therapies > Occupational
Interactive Metronome Therapy
...Metronome (IM) is a research-based training program that helps children and adults overcome attention, memory, and coordination limitations," according to...information, or coordinate our muscles and movements. Conditions such as ADHD, dyslexia, autism, Parkinson's disease, auditory processing disorders, and other issues...
Special Needs > General Special Needs
Special Needs Kids
...conditions like ADHD, autism, or dyslexia to the family it might seem...improve it. In the case of dyslexia, it is plain that information,...that with some accommodation dyslexia might affect a child's education,...years special needs kids with dyslexia, ADHD and similar conditions...special education teachers, adults with these issues. Effective...
Assistive Tech > Virtual Assistants
Voice-to-Text Features for People with Dysgraphia and Writing Disabilities
...to know about each option, organized by the ecosystems most families and adults use. Understanding Dysgraphia and Voice-to-Text as an Accommodation. Dysgraphia...handwriting, spelling, and the physical act of writing. It's not the same as dyslexia, though they often co-occur. Voice-to-text software is a recognized accommodation...
Education > Special Education
The Government Isn't Spending the $93 Million Congress Mandated for Special Education Research. Here's What Families Should Do Now.
...research grants that study what works. Reading interventions for students with dyslexia. Communication supports for minimally verbal autistic students. Transition...autistic students. Transition programs that improve employment outcomes for adults with intellectual disabilities. Teacher training programs that prepare educators...
Lifestyle > Art
Social Skills Groups That Use Art Therapy
...table, painting a shared canvas. One reaches for the blue. The other is already holding it. They negotiate: a brief back-and-forth, no scripts, no adult prompting. The exchange lasts three seconds and is entirely unremarkable. That's the point. Group art therapy creates the conditions for peer interaction...