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Top 10 Ways to Motivate Your Student

As the new school year begins, parents play a pivotal role in their child?s success. Here are 10 tips for motivating your student from GoalSettingforStudents.com.1. Stress "I?ll Make It Happen" words.

Help Your Child Do Better in School

Create a personal schedule recording everything that must be done on a calendar or "to do" list will help him to keep track of important dates and deadlines.  If he keeps it in a visible place he will have no problem acknowledging upcoming events and will be better able to plan how and where to spend his time.

Break Free From Power Struggles

You want your daughter to wear a dress to the party. She wants to wear jeans. You want your toddler to take his medicine. He does everything he can to keep that yucky stuff out of his mouth. The more you insist, the more they resist. You can break free from power struggles and turn turbulence into positive growth opportunities by putting a few helpful tips in place...

To Clean or Not To Clean

It is hard keeping a house clean with a toddler running underfoot. Especially o­ne that doesn't like the Big Bad Vacuum Cleaner and starts to cry at the site of it. Well, she's getting better about it now, but still.. There just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to get much done.

Advocating for Your Child with LD

Advocate: you've probably heard the term before.  But what does it mean to you?

10 Ways You Can Advocate For Your Child With A Learning Disability

Did you know that you are the most important person in your child?s life? Of course you did.

Aptitude, Achievement, Processing Deficit - What Does It All Mean?

You are sitting with the professionals who know about learning disabilities. They have  been explaining what they will be looking for  when they test your child.

Beginning the Special Education Process

Like anything else in life, there's a method to the special education process. It was put in place to  help people who deal with learning disabilities get the  best services possible. In order to help you understand  this method, here's a simplified version of the Special  Education process. 

Understanding Why Your Child Has Been Recommended for Testing

You have just received a call from your child?s teacher explaining that she has noticed your child having difficulty in school.  Your child is not understanding math or reading the way the other children do.  So she would like your permission to proceed with testing to find out if he has a learning disability. When this happens, it is always a good idea to meet with the teacher in person.

To Test or Not To Test - That Is the Question

Little Suzy has really been having a hard time getting some of her assignments done.  When she reads in class, she struggles with many words, and her mother reported at conference time that Suzy spends hours each night on homework. 

Strengths and Weaknesses

All too often, children with learning disabilities are seen through their weaknesses.

So, My Child Has Been Recommended for Testing - What Do I Do Now?

You?ve just received a call from your child's teacher.  As your blood pounds in your ears, you hear her explain how she has noticed your child having difficulty with some academic subject in school.  Your child is not understanding math or reading the way the other children do.  So she would like your permission to proceed with testing to find out what exactly is causing the problem.

Understanding The Report

"No thank you.  Don't bother to send me the report about the testing results.  I won't understand it anyway.  I'll just listen at the meeting."

Alias: Aptitude

Be aware. You may become totally overwhelmed when you get the results of the special education  testing on your child. There is a lot of "stuff" on  that report!  And much of it sounds like a foreign  language to many people.

The Forgotten Secret of the Ancient Greeks that Shows Us How to Keep Our Teenagers Out of Trouble

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up (Ecclesiastes 3:1-3)

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