The term learning disability describes a neurobiological disorder in which a person's brain works or is structured differently. These differences interfere with a person's ability to think and remember. Learning disabilities can affect a person's ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason, recall, organize information, and do mathematics. Because learning disabilities cannot be seen, they often go undetected. Recognizing a learning disability is even more difficult because the severity and characteristics vary. A learning disability can't be cured or fixed; it is a lifelong issue. With the right support and intervention, however, children with learning disabilities can succeed in school and go on to successful, often distinguished careers later in life. Parents can help children with learning disabilities achieve such success by encouraging their strengths, knowing their weaknesses, understanding the educational system, working with professionals and learning about strategies for dealing with specific difficulties. Facts About Learning Disabilities: -Fifteen percent of the U.S. population, or one in seven Americans, has some type of learning disability, according to the National Institutes of Health. -Difficulty with basic reading and language skills are the most common learning disabilities. As many as 80% of students with learning disabilities have reading problems. -Learning disabilities often run in families. -Learning disabilities should not be confused with other disabilities such as autism, deafness, blindness, intellectual disabilities and behavioral disorders. None of these conditions are learning disabilities. In addition, they should not be confused with lack of educational opportunities like frequent changes of schools...

Learning disabilities are lifelong neurobiological disorders affecting various cognitive functions and are often undetected.

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 The term learning disability describes a neurobiological disorder in which a person's brain works or is structured differently. These differences interfere with a person's ability to think and remember. Learning disabilities can affect a person's ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason, recall, organize information, and do mathematics. Because learning disabilities cannot be seen, they often go undetected. Recognizing a learning disability is even more difficult because the severity and characteristics vary. A learning disability can't be cured or fixed; it is a lifelong issue. With the right support and intervention, however, children with learning disabilities can succeed in school and go on to successful, often distinguished careers later in life. Parents can help children with learning disabilities achieve such success by encouraging their strengths, knowing their weaknesses, understanding the educational system, working with professionals and learning about strategies for dealing with specific difficulties.  Facts About Learning Disabilities:  -Fifteen percent of the U.S. population, or one in seven Americans, has some type of learning disability, according to the National Institutes of Health. -Difficulty with basic reading and language skills are the most common learning disabilities. As many as 80% of students with learning disabilities have reading problems. -Learning disabilities often run in families. -Learning disabilities should not be confused with other disabilities such as autism, deafness, blindness, intellectual disabilities and behavioral disorders. None of these conditions are learning disabilities. In addition, they should not be confused with lack of educational opportunities like frequent changes of schools...

Types of Learning Disabilities: What is Dyscalculia? When it comes to the different types of learning disabilities, everyone seems to know the common ones, such as dyslexia or the learning challenges that come with attention disorders, such as ADD. However, there are many other types of learning disabilities out there that some parents have never heard of. Learning about these disabilities can make you a better advocate for your child and their educational environment. Learning that your child has a learning disability can help ease some of the stress from the situation. As a parent, you can better understand how to help you child and encourage them in their strengths and weaknesses. Signs of Dyscalculia While dyslexia is the common known learning disability when it comes to reading, dyscalculia is the learning disability that revolves around arithmetic and numbers. Dyscalculia.org says, "Dyscalculia often only affects the decoding and encoding, memory and processing of numbers. Researchers and authors commonly use the term “math dyslexia” to describe dyscalculia as being “like dyslexia but in math." Dyscalculia is said to affect certain areas of the brain, making mathematics, number memorization, and other tasks with numbers hard to remember and store. Dyscalculia can occur with other learning disabilities too. Children with dyscalculia struggle with the organization of numbers, telling time, number operation signs, such as minus and addition, and remembering math facts, such as the multiplication table....

Dyscalculia is a learning disability affecting math skills and number processing, requiring tailored teaching methods.

What is Dyscalculia?

  Types of Learning Disabilities: What is Dyscalculia?    When it comes to the different types of learning disabilities, everyone seems to know the common ones, such as dyslexia or the learning challenges that come with attention disorders, such as ADD. However, there are many other types of learning disabilities out there that some parents have never heard of. Learning about these disabilities can make you a better advocate for your child and their educational environment. Learning that your child has a learning disability can help ease some of the stress from the situation. As a parent, you can better understand how to help you child and encourage them in their strengths and weaknesses.    Signs of Dyscalculia    While dyslexia is the common known learning disability when it comes to reading, dyscalculia is the learning disability that revolves around arithmetic and numbers.  Dyscalculia.org says, "Dyscalculia often only affects the decoding and encoding, memory and processing of numbers. Researchers and authors commonly use the term “math dyslexia” to describe dyscalculia as being “like dyslexia but in math."   Dyscalculia is said to affect certain areas of the brain, making mathematics, number memorization, and other tasks with numbers hard to remember and store. Dyscalculia can occur with other learning disabilities too.    Children with dyscalculia struggle with the organization of numbers, telling time, number operation signs, such as minus and addition, and remembering math facts, such as the multiplication table....

As our kids spend many hours per day in the classroom, their teachers and specialists track their progress (or lack thereof) by following the goals in their Individual Educational Plan (IEP). Supporting your child's daily opportunities to attend to language and to talk thru speech or alternative means will enrich their learning and output each day. Below are some suggestions and examples of increasing those opportunities by pairing them with your child's life experiences. Each year an IEP meeting for the child with special needs is held to set goals for the coming year in school. The parents attend this meeting with trepidation and are often confused as to the true purpose of this long and tedious meeting. In order to maximize the opportunity to support functional goal development, the parents can be ready to suggest ways to help the child communicate and interact with language throughout the school day. Language, after all, is the medium of the total curriculum in reading, writing and speaking. Each goal has a particular focus and purpose with academic and communication or speech/language goals separated. When all goals have an expectation and outcome for interaction with, and learning of, language within them, we have created a trans-disciplinary environment where everyone is working on and supporting all skills. Growth is inevitable. A math goal may state that 'John Doe will identify the mathematic process of the equation' and then be optimized if written as 'John Doe will restate the directions of the word problem, show...

IEP goals should integrate language development, customized to each child's needs for successful learning in all subjects.

Making IEP goals that support Language and Communication: Tweaking the plan in the New Year

As our kids spend many hours per day in the classroom, their teachers and specialists track their progress (or lack thereof) by following the goals in their Individual Educational Plan (IEP). Supporting your child's daily opportunities to attend to language and to talk thru speech or alternative means will enrich their learning and output each day. Below are some suggestions and examples of increasing those opportunities by pairing them with your child's life experiences. Each year an IEP meeting for the child with special needs is held to set goals for the coming year in school. The parents attend this meeting with trepidation and are often confused as to the true purpose of this long and tedious meeting. In order to maximize the opportunity to support functional goal development, the parents can be ready to suggest ways to help the child communicate and interact with language throughout the school day. Language, after all, is the medium of the total curriculum in reading, writing and speaking. Each goal has a particular focus and purpose with academic and communication or speech/language goals separated. When all goals have an expectation and outcome for interaction with, and learning of, language within them, we have created a trans-disciplinary environment where everyone is working on and supporting all skills. Growth is inevitable. A math goal may state that 'John Doe will identify the mathematic process of the equation' and then be optimized if written as 'John Doe will restate the directions of the word problem, show...

There are approximately one million people living with autism in the United States today. By the year 2050, it is predicted that this number will increase fivefold, with 1.7 million of these people being adults. In her book, Autism Solutions: How to Create a Healthy and Meaningful Life for Your Child , autism expert Dr. Ricki Robinson stresses the importance of thinking differently about how to help children with autism follow their dreams by clarifying their interests. Once a child's interest is discovered and fostered, by the time they become an adult, they feel like a productive member of society. They begin having goals and objectives for themselves, not based on expectations of success other people place upon them. "You have to step back from the IEP kind of stuff where you're micromanaging what happens during the day," Dr. Robinson explains. "Look at the big picture and say, have we filled in all the gaps to what really would become a meaningful life?" She sees her role as "the quarterback of the team," keeping everyone's eyes on the prize by figuring out the key elements to providing for a child to someday have a future. "The number one concern for all parents is their child's future," says Dr. Robinson. "Unless you're going to have a career in mathematics, it's not about doing math. It's about having friends, fitting into the community, finding out what your dream is and being able to do what you need to do to follow...

Dr. Ricki Robinson's book emphasizes creating meaningful lives for autistic children by focusing on their interests and community support.

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There are approximately one million people living with autism in the United States today. By the year 2050, it is predicted that this number will increase fivefold, with 1.7 million of these people being adults. In her book,  Autism Solutions: How to Create a Healthy and Meaningful Life for Your Child , autism expert Dr. Ricki Robinson stresses the importance of thinking differently about how to help children with autism follow their dreams by clarifying their interests. Once a child's interest is discovered and fostered, by the time they become an adult, they feel like a productive member of society. They begin having goals and objectives for themselves, not based on expectations of success other people place upon them. "You have to step back from the IEP kind of stuff where you're micromanaging what happens during the day," Dr. Robinson explains. "Look at the big picture and say, have we filled in all the gaps to what really would become a meaningful life?" She sees her role as "the quarterback of the team," keeping everyone's eyes on the prize by figuring out the key elements to providing for a child to someday have a future. "The number one concern for all parents is their child's future," says Dr. Robinson. "Unless you're going to have a career in mathematics, it's not about doing math. It's about having friends, fitting into the community, finding out what your dream is and being able to do what you need to do to follow...

Don't just learn math — live it. The iLiveMath app series from iHomeEducator blends math with themes from around the world. The series includes the themes: Animals of Africa Winter Sports Oceans Speed Trains Ford Cars Farm Fresh Entomology The app tests math skills through illustrated questions, which also requires children to apply their math skills. Level 1 involves basic counting for beginners, Level 2 teaches addition, and Level 3 introduces problem solving. In the Farm Fresh theme, Level 1 includes pictures, and children are asked to count colored foods, and pop-ups acknowledge correct and incorrect answers. Level 2 introduces the "Stone Soup" folktale, followed by a series of questions asking learners to add numbers together. The third level asks a series of story problems with themes of agriculture. In addition to learning math principles, the first level of the iLiveMath Farm Fresh app can be used to teach colors, fruits and vegetables, and patterns. The second level includes a folktale, so students can also practice their reading skills as well as learn about the theme of teamwork. The third level introduces vocabulary, such as "bushel," "pint," "peck," "liter," and so forth, and it involves multi-step operations to problems. These mental math puzzles might be difficult for some age levels. The flow of the app allows a student to start with simple principles and work his way up through mathematical concepts. The app does not include music or animation, so it is not too flashy...

iLiveMath app integrates math with global themes, enhancing learning with illustrated questions and varying difficulty levels.

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Don't just learn math — live it. The iLiveMath app series from iHomeEducator blends math with themes from around the world. The series includes the themes:  Animals of Africa Winter Sports Oceans Speed Trains Ford Cars Farm Fresh Entomology  The app tests math skills through illustrated questions, which also requires children to apply their math skills. Level 1 involves basic counting for beginners, Level 2 teaches addition, and Level 3 introduces problem solving. In the Farm Fresh theme, Level 1 includes pictures, and children are asked to count colored foods, and pop-ups acknowledge correct and incorrect answers. Level 2 introduces the "Stone Soup" folktale, followed by a series of questions asking learners to add numbers together. The third level asks a series of story problems with themes of agriculture. In addition to learning math principles, the first level of the iLiveMath Farm Fresh app can be used to teach colors, fruits and vegetables, and patterns. The second level includes a folktale, so students can also practice their reading skills as well as learn about the theme of teamwork. The third level introduces vocabulary, such as "bushel," "pint," "peck," "liter," and so forth, and it involves multi-step operations to problems. These mental math puzzles might be difficult for some age levels.    The flow of the app allows a student to start with simple principles and work his way up through mathematical concepts. The app does not include music or animation, so it is not too flashy...

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