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Executive Function Strategies That Work: A Parent's Guide for Students with Learning Differences
You see the homework on the desk. You know your child understands...function skills respond to practical support. Research shows that external structures...Here's what works. Working Memory Support: Making Information Stick. Working...mentally. Keep a whiteboard near the homework space with the assignment broken into...
Parenting > School Years
5 Things You Can Do at Home to Help Your Child's Learning Challenges
...success every child needs, and here are five of them – think time, love, and support. Your child needs to feel safe and secure first. When you establish...at the same time each day, including waking, sleeping, eating, and doing homework. Speaking of sleeping, make sure you all get enough sleep; children need...
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
Why can't my kid get organized!?: ADHD and Executive Functioning
...continues to struggle with basics like making sure his homework goes from his desk to his backpack, backpack to...process neurotransmitters that are responsible for supporting attention, reducing distractibility, irritability...some of his academic program modified to best support his strengths as well as his challenges? When...
Education > Accommodations
IEP or 504 Plan: Which is Right For Your Child?
...an alternative location, and reduced levels of homework. A 504 plan does not provide the same level of...level on standardized tests. Substantial outside support, such as tutoring and homework assistance, can...Substantial outside support, such as tutoring and homework assistance, can mask the seriousness of the problem...
Parenting > School Years
Leading Pediatric Expert Offers Eight Step Technique for Managing Children’s Behavioral Problems
...'at-risk' because of behaviors during pregnancy and a lack of proper care and support after. Chasnoff provides practical behavior management techniques and proven...help parents make their child more compliant, better able to complete his homework, and less inclined to hit others when frustrated or angry. Step 1: Identify...
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
When ADHD Isn't Alone: Understanding Co-Occurring Anxiety, Dyslexia, and Learning Differences
Your child has an ADHD diagnosis. You've started treatment. But something still doesn't add up. Medication helps with focus during homework, but they still avoid reading. Behavioral strategies reduce impulsivity, but anxiety about school keeps building. The pieces don't quite fit. That...
Special Needs > Attention Deficit Disorders
Why ADHD in Girls Often Goes Undiagnosed and What Parents Can Do
Your daughter forgets homework constantly. She struggles to finish tasks you know she understands. Teachers say she's distracted, disorganized, or "just needs to try harder." You've...
Research > Brain Science
How Executive Function Shapes Learning: What Parents Need to Know About the Brain Science Behind Reading, Math, and Organization
When a child with ADHD loses their homework for the third time this week, or when a child with dyslexia reads the same sentence four times and still can't remember what it said, parents often...
Assistive Tech > Software
Best Text-to-Speech Software for Dyslexic Students: A K-12 Guide
The homework pile does not get smaller just because reading is hard. For a student with dyslexia, every text-based assignment adds friction, and that friction...
Education > Tutoring
Reading, Improving Writing, and Study Skills
...study skills. I know I did! My kids, I have two sons and a daughter, and they are like everyone else's kids, they did drive me a bit crazy with the homework wars by the middle of November and I wondered if they'd ever stop. As a parent you also sometimes feel like you don't know how to help your child....
Education > Tutoring
Win this $797 Awaken the Scholar Within Program!
...self. But what if it could be easier? Is it possible? What would it be like if your kids could learn with greater ease? What would it look like if homework time didn't take so-o-o long? That can happen! I finally decided to share the visual processing activities I've been using with my students over the...
Lifestyle > Independence
Firing the Butler and the Maid . . .
...families do it all to keep the peace. Then to add to this challenge, parents of special needs children may both work and have siblings to help with homework, getting to soccer practice or carpooling to play dates, making them feel they cannot take the needed time to wait for their child with special needs...