A Parent Guide to Learning Disabilities

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A PARENT GUIDE TO LEARNING DISABILITIES

In preparing this parent guide, veteran school psychologist, Etta K. Brown has called upon her twenty years of public school experience as a certified special education teacher, school social worker, school psychologist and Licensed Education Psychologist.

For the first time, parents are provided an excellent thoughtful, insightful, information-packed resource that reveals new answers to all the questions, old and new, that parents and teachers have about special education and their children with learning disabilities.

Finally, support is at hand when parents have been informed for the first time that their child may have a learning disability and they are unsure what to do next, or where to turn for answers.

You will learn that expensive therapies and professional interventions in many cases are not needed. Motivated parents, empowered with the information available in this step-by-step guide, are all that is necessary.

In Part I Understanding the Problem you will learn:

the alarming increase in the rate at which parents and educators are discovering learning disabilities in children;

the environmental factors that influence the development of learning disabilities, and what parents and educators can do about them;

the problem of immature development and the surprising remedies that are available to parents and teachers

how child rearing practices can either contribute to or help overcome learning disabilities

how emotional trauma can cause learning disabilities and solid information about how to address the problem

the role that nutrition, allergies, and hypoglycemia play in learning and behavioral problems,

how sleep impacts learning, and

the disturbing effect that toxic chemicals and metals can have on children, and how exposure can lead to learning disabilities

In Part II Managing the Challenges, you will get helpful information on:

Laws governing special education and how the rights of parents supersede those of the school

How to create an individualized education plan (IEP) for a child with learning disabilities

How educational advocacy works and how you can tap into much-needed resources

Tests and testing, and how the school determined that you child had a learning disability,

The impact that parent advocacy can have upon the appropriateness of a child’s education.

In Part III You will discover how to manage the challenges presented by a child with learning disabilities. Helpful information includes:

how limited visual processing skills manifest in the classroom and how to accommodate them at home and school,

how to communicate effectively with the child with limited auditory processing skills.

how a lack of sensory-motor integration effects learning

how to accommodate a lack of attention skills

causes, prevention, and interventions for successful management of the child with attention deficit disorder (ADD and ADHD).

No other book or parent guide to learning disabilities provides the extensive description of each processing disorder with signs and symptoms in the form of behaviors that may be exhibited by a child with a processing disorder.

Every chapter includes specific recommendations for dealing with these learning behaviors both at home and at school. These techniques are different for every area of disability.

Access to the inside information in this parent guide will instill the confidence to find your own voice and communicate an informed opinion in response to every challenge throughout the special education process. Included is everything you ever wanted to know about special education and some things that the schools would rather you didn't know about learning and the law.

You are invited to read Chapter I

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