Resources Tagged With: learning differences

Helping Kids with Executive Functioning Issues Manage Behavior330

Helping Kids with Executive Functioning Issues Manage Behavior [presentation] [video]

An important aspect of developing Executive Functioning (EF) skills is the ability to manage oneself and one’s behavior.

This session covers EF and the relationship of the mind and body in developing self-awareness. Learn strategies to increase self-monitoring and self-regulation in kids with EF challenges. Read more ›

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Working Memory Boosters

workingmemory328Does your child have a hard time keeping one bit of information in mind while he’s doing something else? For example, if he’s helping make spaghetti and the phone rings, does he forget he needs to go back and keep stirring the sauce? If he often has trouble with such tasks, he might have working memory issues. Read more ›

Anxiety and the Twice Exceptional Child323

Anxiety and the Twice Exceptional Child [presentation] [video]

Students who are twice exceptional have unique challenges. They often experience anxiety as a result of some of those challenges. Read more ›

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When Kids Can’t Read: Word Attack Skills for Struggling Readers [presentation] [video]

In this community education session for educators, Lisa Parnello discusses how to identify a student with word attack struggles and offers helpful strategies that can make them a more successful reader. This class includes easy-to-implement methods to help students with and without learning differences to become better readers. Read more ›

Interactive Panel- Growing Up with Learning & Attention Issues277

Interactive Panel: Growing Up with Learning & Attention Issues [video]

A panel of adults who grew up with learning and attention differences and have become successful in their work share their perspectives about who and what made a difference for them and how they found their ‘niche’ in work and life. Read more ›

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Learning Differences: Discover Your Superpower [video]

loofbourrow276Ross Loofbourrow, who was diagnosed in elementary school with ADHD and auditory processing issues, talks to Sand Hill School students about his journey growing up with ADHD and learning differences and how he has come to view his learning differences as ‘superpowers.’ Read more ›

Technology to Support Executive Functioning [downloadable]

Executive functioning skills, which involve working memory, flexible thinking and self-monitoring, are key to learning. Read more ›

Resources to Help You Prepare for Your Child’s IEP Meeting [downloadable]

An  IEP, Individualized Education Program, is a written document outlining a special-education-eligible student’s strengths, needs, and educational goals. The IEP is designed to help students with a disability reach educational goals more easily than they otherwise would. Read more ›

Toolkit: Advocate for the Best IEP for Your Child [downloadable]

The Supreme Court’s Endrew F decision in 2017 is an opportunity to improve the services IEPs offer students. And it’s up to you as a parent to make the most of it. Doing so will not only help your child, but also the 1 in 5 kids with learning and attention issues in your community and beyond. Read more ›

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Early Screening for Children at Risk of Dyslexia [web resource] [downloadable]

decodingdyslexia267Decoding Dyslexia CA, made up of families who have dyslexic children, educators and others who are passionate about addressing dyslexia, strives to raise dyslexia awareness, empower families to support their children, and improve resources for students with dyslexia in California public schools. Read more ›

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