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Topic: Learning Disabilities and Special Needs

Advocate for a child with special needs or find the diet that will best support your autistic son or daughter. Whether you or someone you love is struggling with a learning disability, you’ll find resources and information here.

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Special Needs Resources: Do We Need a 504 Plan?

Dr. Brandi Roth answers one parent's question about the 504 Plan, one of the many special needs resources available for children of special needs. Find out more about what's available.

Learning Difficulties of Color Blindness

Color blindness is a serious problem for many students. If left unchecked, it can result in learning difficulties in school and later in life. Find out exactly what is color blindness?

Kids' Learning Disabilities: Glossary of Terms

There are many kinds of learning disabilities and lots of confusing terms that go along with them. Use this handy reference guide to some commonly used terms for kids' learning disabilities.

Defusing Tension When Advocating for Children of Special Needs

Good parent teacher communication is important, especially for children of special needs. One mother discusses how to avoid arguments with educational professionals and help her child.

Parent-Teacher Communication: What Teachers Wish Parents Knew

Teachers welcome parent involvement in education. There are things, though, that they wish parents knew so that they could be better partners. This article contains 20 pieces of advice that teachers have for parents.

Home School Education in Partnership with Public Schools

In this first-person account, one mom tells how home school education and public school partnered to provide her child with needed special education activities for speech.

Reading Tutoring May Be the Real Answer to Your Child's Difficulty

Many excuses are given for why a child can't read. Parents are often told their child has ADD symptoms or dyslexia symptoms--or sometimes just that the child is lazy. Before you despair, find out whether reading tutoring is t...

Special Education Issues: Hurtful Words about Disabilities

There are many special education issues. Words can make us feel good or bad, worthwhile or worthless, self confident or insecure. Often, people don't choose their words carefully about disabilities.

Parenting Children of Special Needs: Remember to Laugh

When it comes to lifting the blues that may set in when life with children of special needs feels like more than you can take, don't neglect your sense of humor. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

Cool Educational Toys and Special Needs Resources

It's becoming more difficult to shop for products for kids (including special needs) that are educational and fun. Check out these websites and catalogs for special needs resources.

Helping Children of Special Needs Focus on Strengths

Children of special needs require love, support, and commitment. Parent teacher communication, creativity, and teamwork help special needs parents build their children's strengths.

Advice for Dealing with Kids' Learning Disabilities: ADHD

Learning with disabilities such as ADHD isn't easy, and rearing kids' with learning disabilities isn't easy either. Here are some words of wisdom and support for parents of children with ADHD.

Special Needs Parents Need Emotional Support

Even when special needs parents are coping well, milestone transitions for their children of special needs can be emotionally bittersweet. Here's how to find support.

Special Inclusion in After-school Activities

When children with special needs are valued and special inclusion includes after-school activities, everyone wins. Read about the extra-curricular cross-country career of Micah, a child with special needs.

Dyspraxia In Children: Does Your Child Have It?

What is Dyspraxia (Clumsy Child Syndrome)? Is it possible that your child could be affected by this disorder? Even kids with an above-average learning intelligence are affected.

Learning with Disabilities: An Age-by-Age Guide

Nobody knows your child like you do. If you sense that something's "just not right," your child may be learning with disabilities. Here are problems to look for at three child development stages.

Kids' Learning Disabilities: Evaluations

It's important to find out why your child isn't doing well in school. He or she may have one or more of the many types of kids' learning disabilities. By law, schools must provide special help to eligible children.

Public School Policy: No Child Left Behind Offers Free Tutoring to Some Students

If your child's school doesn't meet the grade according to the public school policy mandates of No Child Left Behind, then your children may qualify for special tutoring services.

I'm Special too: Parenting Siblings of Children of Special Needs

Being the sibling of a child of special needs can be challenging. With the support of a loving family, this experience can result in rich life lessons that serve children well.

Eric Winter: The Child Became the Teacher

Author Judy Winter's son Eric, born with cerebral palsy, passed away in 2003. Read this story about a special parent's love for a child and what her son taught her about life.

For Kids with Special Needs, Resources Begin with Mom and Dad

For kids with special needs, resources begin with their parents. A mother shares her perspective on what some may view as a hardship—parenting a child with cerebral palsy—and makes a case for empathy.

How Technology Can Help Children of Special Needs

Technology can help children of special needs to become more independent. It is one of the special needs resources that schools can use to help students.

Siblings of Students Learning with Disabilities

Siblings of students learning with disabilities face their own challenges. There's a lot of importance placed on standardized tests today, but special needs kids can teach us a lot.

How the Law Helps Children of Special Needs

The law helps children of special needs to get the education to which they are entitled. Learn how Section 504 and the IDEA are important special needs resources.

What is ADD and ADHD?

ADD and ADHD are two of the most commonly diagnosed disorders of childhood. What is ADD and ADHD? Know the symptoms of ADD and ADHD, and learn about treatments.

Children of Special Needs: ADHD

Children of special needs such as ADHD often struggle in school and outside of school. What can you do to help your child who is learning with disabilities? Suggestions from a mom who's been there.

Special Needs Inclusion Extends to Hollywood

Parents of children with special needs are often told the many things their children will never be. Gail Williamson works to bring special needs inclusion to acting.

Recognizing Kids' Learning Disabilities

The most important step in getting help for children who are learning with disabilities is identifying—and accepting— kids' learning disabilities. Get advice from experts who have been there.

Teenage Advice: Get Reading Help

If high school academics are an issue, your teen might have a learning disability. School is easier when reading isn't a struggle. Help by suggesting popular books for teenagers and staying involved.

Parents Can Find Summer Camp Programs for Children of Special Needs

Children of special needs may want to participate in summer camp activities. In this article, the author and other special needs parents explain how they found the right summer camp program for their children.

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