learning disabled children

Defines and explains over seventy types of learning disorders and counterproductive behaviors that can hinder a child's academic progress, listing common symptoms, defining terminology and educational jargon, and describing testing procedures and remediation strategies.

Provides information and materials for taking a positive and personal approach to Response to Intervention, discussing how to identify exceptions to learning problems, design interventions, and implement a three-tiered RTI process, and including tips on decreasing paperwork, motivating students, engaging students and parents, and increasing morale.

Describes learning disability, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, and similar conditions in behavioral rather than medical terms, explains how children with learning disabilities are identified, discusses the tests that should be administered once a child is designated as learning disabled, and features an action plan that maps out the steps to take to help a child with a learning disability. Includes activities.

Offers advice to parents on how to become advocates for their learning disabled children in the school system, providing an introduction to special education, discussing the legal rights of children under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, and tracing the process of developing an individualized education plan for children with learning disabilities.

An eleven-year-old boy with a learning disability describes how his parents and teachers became aware of his condition and arranged for him to join some of his classmates who receive special instruction at their own levels.

A comprehensive guide to learning impairments that connects the latest brain research with strategies to help teachers identify and cope with the most common learning disorders.

Describes how teachers can use RTI (response to intervention) methods to address challenging behaviors of struggling learners in the classroom.