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Resources for Parents: Helping Your Child Manage ADHD

Resources for Parents: Helping Your Child Manage ADHD

This article is the second entry in our Resources for Parents series. If there’s a topic you’d like to see covered in a future Resources for Parents article, please let us know in the comments. Attention-deficit hyperactive disorder, or ADHD, affects at least 5% of children in the United States.Read More

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Learning about Learning Differences

Health & Science, Learning Differences, Recommendations November 18, 2014 at 10:28 pm

One in twenty K-12 students has a diagnosed learning disability – or learning difference, to use the term now preferred by many educators. The distinction may seem trivial, but it captures an important truth. A learning “disability” implies that one is less capable of learning; a learning “difference,” on theRead More

Classroom Solutions to Help Dyslexic Students

Classroom Solutions to Help Dyslexic Students

Health & Science, Learning Differences, Recommendations November 6, 2014 at 10:19 pm

As many as one in five people suffers from dyslexia, a learning difference which affects the ability to parse text when reading and writing. If your child has recently been diagnosed with dyslexia, you probably have a lot of questions. What does my child see when looking at a pageRead More