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...in situations they can handle. By the time they're navigating college disability services or workplace accommodations, they've practiced hundreds of times...struggling. "I notice you do better when you have your fidget toy during reading time. Why do you think that is?" Name the pattern together. Practice asking...

...Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)...one of 13 specific disability categories, and that...categories, and that disability must adversely affect...serves students whose disabilities affect their...child must have a disability that fits within...categories below. The disability must adversely affect...diagnosis whose reading comprehension has...

...flags working memory deficits tied to a learning disability. They're all describing the same thing. Executive...autism spectrum disorder, and specific learning disabilities with a moderate effect size of 0.56. That...remembering the first part of a sentence while reading the end. Cognitive flexibility allows you to shift...

The Americans with Disabilities Act gives you specific protections...or more employees and you have a disability that substantially limits one or...depression, anxiety, PTSD, or learning disabilities. "Substantially limits" doesn't...hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating,...

...Individuals with Disabilities Education Act...they must have a disability that falls into one...specific learning disability, emotional disturbance,...impairment, intellectual disability, hearing or visual...deaf-blindness, or multiple disabilities. Second, and...critically, that disability must adversely affect...dyslexia who is reading below grade level...

...tutor who understands their learning disability, ADHD, or other support needs. You...teaching licenses that may not include disability-specific instruction. State teaching...evidence-based interventions for disabilities. If a tutor has a teaching license,...a master's in special education, reading specialist certification, or school...

...Word problems shut them down before they finish reading the first sentence. Teachers say practice more....children have dyscalculia, a specific math learning disability as neurologically grounded as dyslexia. Yet it...estimate quantities, problems telling time or reading clocks,...

When you search for online learning platforms for students with disabilities, you get the same promises from all of them. Every platform claims...families try, and it covers pre-K through college-level content in math, reading, science,...

...curriculum formats suit different disabilities, how to access therapies you may...Choosing a Curriculum That Fits the Disability. There is no universal curriculum...programs like the Sonday System (for reading) or Teaching Textbooks (for math)...are the gold standard: All About Reading and All About Spelling are widely...

...special education under IDEA, a student must have one of a specific list of disability categories and must need specially designed instruction as a result. Section...substantially limits a major life activity? Major life activities include reading, writing, concentrating, learning, thinking, speaking, and caring for oneself....

...increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a child with a disability. That definition is intentionally broad. It includes a wide spectrum....fidget tools, visual schedules printed on paper, colored overlays for reading, and physical timers. These are inexpensive and often immediately useful....

...denied with no explanation. Maybe you were let go within weeks of raising a disability-related concern. You suspect discrimination, and you want to do something...occurred to file an EEOC charge, depending on where you live. If you're reading this and doing the math, do it now, before anything else. In states and...