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5 Things Parents Should Know About Their Child’s Learning Diagnosis
Unscrambling the jargon to help you make informed choices Your child is not keeping up. What to do? Getting a learning diagnosis is traumatic. The terms are scary and it feels insanely complicated. You have friends who have done it, only to come back with an...
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Why Schools Avoid Taking On Underlying Learning Issues
The School Role Is Instruction, NOT Learning Interventions The reality is schools take children "as is" and do their very best to get them graduated. And so, it might come as a shock, but schools are not about resolving impediments to learning. And in fact, most are...
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Hey Mom, Here’s Why I’m Not A Learning Risk Taker!
Hey Mom, I know you love me and want the best for me. And I also know you are disappointed that I don't like reading as much as you did as a kid. And you get frustrated when I take so long on my homework. I know you want me to try harder at school and enjoy it more....
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What A Child with APD Hears and Sees … All Day Long
Warning, For Parents This Is A Hard Listen Does your child have an APD diagnosis? And if so, have you ever wondered what your child’s day is like? This article gives you a couple of ways to get a true sense of how a brain works, especially when it struggles to...
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Ten Surprising Consequences of Executive Functioning Difficulties
Is your child or teen having trouble making decisions, planning, actively listening, managing information, switching tasks or even remembering to hand in homework? That sounds like they may have difficulty with executive functioning and self-regulation, which centers...
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Making the Most of Mid-Winter Break for Your Child’s Learning
Harnessing Mid-Winter Break North American students are coming up for their mid-Winter break in February. It’s just a week, so what can you do as a parent of a child with learning disabilities to keep them on track yet make the most of the break? An Uphill Battle with...
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How to Help Your Pre-schooler Prepare for Kindergarten
As a parent, you’re no doubt aware that school is a whole different ball game for your pre-schooler. It’s a huge change, says Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s Director for education and skills[1]. “For many children … [transition to school] a big cultural change – in...
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Getting Your Reluctant Teen With Dyslexia to Read Fiction and Why It Matters
Your teen may be one of the 8.5 million American students with dyslexia. The teen years are white hot with peer pressure. So, is it worth nudging your teen with dyslexia to read more fiction? Chances are their peers read, so your child might be missing out on...
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Tips For Helping Your Child With Homework
Your school-age child could be spending five to 12 hours – even more – on homework each week. So, here’s how to use that time to improve their skills mastery, performance and even wellbeing. Parental involvement Parental styles of involvement in their children’s...
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How Auditory Processing Difficulties Affect Children with Autism
Auditory processing difficulties As a parent of a child or children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), you may have noticed that around preschool age or even earlier, they’d cover their ears even when you didn’t think there was that much noise about. Maybe they...
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