The Guidance Approach for Children with Learning Difficulties
An Alternative Response to Children's Behavior If you’re struggling to manage a difficult relationship with your child, you’re not alone. For every picture-perfect family with seemingly perfect children, there are ten more where things are a little bumpier. Every...
Do You Know Why Your Child is Misbehaving in School?
Sometimes You Need to Look Beyond the Misbehavior As a parent, it’s always tough when you get a call from an educator or read a comment on a report card about your child misbehaving in school. In these situations, remedying the issue is often a stumbling block. Do you...
Using Strengths to Build Confidence in Struggling Learners
Resilience is a Transferable Skill From a young age, Jim Jones struggled with learning. It affected both his self-esteem and his grades. To fit in better, he wanted to do things other kids couldn’t. So Jim learned how to twirl a basketball. After a while, he mastered...
Children Learning From Home – Tips and Tricks
How to Create a Productive Remote Learning Environment When the switch to remote learning first happened in 2020, parents had little time to prepare. However, now children learning from home could well become a regular part of the school year - for snow days and the...
Why Boys Need Different Parenting Around Learning
How to Help the Learning of Boys at Home Boys need competition, structure and more spacious learning areas.Educating and Raising Boys by Michael Nagel Why is it that boys are far more likely than girls to be expelled from school? And why are they twice as likely to be...
Managing the Professionals Around Your Child
How to Create Visibility and Cohesion As the parent of a child with learning difficulties, you probably have more professionals in your life than the average parent. Coordinating and managing these relationships is an overlooked challenge for a parent of child needing...
Yes, Your Child has a Right to an IEP
How to Win an IEP & Make it Work for Your Child Every child in the US is entitled to a free, appropriate public education. It might give you peace of mind that your child with a learning disability has an Individualized Education Program (IEP), but this is not...
Helping Your Child Return to School Post Covid
Social & emotional resources to support your child’s return to school Around the globe, schools are creaking back open or at least talking about that happening as we slowly emerge from the coronavirus crisis. The OECD’s Director of Education and Skills, Andreas...
Helping Your Twice-Exceptional Child
The double-edged sword of frustration: 2e, twice-exceptional Twice-exceptional students can hide their difficulties for years, but then can get frustrated and down on themselves easily. That makes recognizing 2e early important and makes interventions valuable. 2e....
Our Guide On Teaching From Home
Working, Parenting, and Teaching - in the Age of COVID-19 If you find yourself now homeschooling your child (not by choice), you are not alone. About a billion children across the globe are looking to their parents for educational guidance due to the COVID-19 crisis....