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Getting your Child Tested – The Importance of Identification
Has your child been recommended for educational psychological testing? The hesitancy you may have about getting your child tested for learning difficulties is understandable. As parents, we like to think our kids are kind of perfect – not truly perfect, of course....
An Outcome Evaluation of NILD Canada Educational Therapy
Is the Educational Therapy-based approach provided by NILD Canada effective in increasing test scores in school-age children in Ontario? Researchers at the University of Guelph collected data to prove that there is a STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT! Scroll down...
Back to School: Turning the Box Around
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead It’s mid September, your child is back at school, and you met the enthusiastic young teacher. Are you and your child ready to take on the challenges of the new school year? The lingering warmth...
Back to Bedlam
(Or at least that is how it can feel when dealing with our children who have learning and behavioural differences.) Now that summer is coming to a close, and the weather is getting a bit cooler, we have to turn our thoughts to getting back into our school routines....
Hire a Tutor to Crack the Code?
AHHH! School is about to begin and I still don’t have a tutor in place to help my struggling student succeed at his subjects. And is a tutor even the answer? As the first day of school approaches, tension fills the air in many homes. Will this year be as challenging...
Increasing Competence and Confidence in Writing
Writing is one of the most challenging aspects of school for many children, even those who have no difficulty with learning. So you can imagine the challenge for our students, who often struggle with reading and math, and especially writing! I would like to share the...
Homeschooling A Struggling Learner
When a child receives a diagnosis of a learning disability or an attention disorder, there are myriad emotions that the parent experiences: “Is this my fault? Should I have caught this earlier? What hope can I have for my child’s academic and vocational future?” If...
Summer Reading Ideas for Our Reluctant Readers
In the summer it can be difficult to encourage reading and help our children keep their brains active and their thinking skills sharp. One way to do this is to have them reading regularly. This may be challenging, especially if we have reluctant or struggling readers....
Summer Solutions for Preventing Boredom
The summertime is a great opportunity to keep your children's brains engaged - especially for those of us who have children with learning differences. After all the long hard work they (and we) have put in to their learning, we don’t want them to lose the gains they...
Write – Not me! Not now! (On the Place for Contemplation in Writing)
How many times haven’t you (the teacher) had the best lesson plan ever for getting students to write, and then it bombs? I have taught writing several years to junior high, with fantastic plans, but there are still three students who are writing nothing, sitting there...