SLD – Clarity, Support, and Next Steps Specific Learning Disability is a broad administrative category public schools use to qualify kids for special education services (IEPs). It includes conditions you may recognize, such as Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and...
ADHD Therapies With No Medicine How to help a child with ADHD without drugs? It’s a question we hear more often these days. While lesser known, there are ways to manage and control ADHD without meds. This includes natural, drug-free approaches to manage the...
Double-Edged Frustration: 2e, Twice-Exceptional Kids Twice-exceptional, meaning gifted students with a learning disability like dyslexia, is a challenge for parents in two major ways: Diagnosing. They use their smarts to hide their disability. And yet, an unrecognized...
Great With Words, Struggles With Unwritten Rules The definition of Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NVLD or NLD) is almost the opposite of what it sounds like. These kids can have amazing vocabularies. The issue isn’t using words—it’s reading the world without...
Actionable Ideas If Your Child Is Having a Hard Time Learning Confidence is the rocket fuel of learning, but it’s a fragile asset that has to be managed. For many parents, the first sign of a learning delay isn’t a poor grade — it’s the tears at homework time,...
Being Bright Gets You Only So Far Many gifted children struggle in school, not due to a lack of intelligence, but due to executive function disorders. The good news for them, however, is that executive function is a cognitive skill set that can be improved through...