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Communicating with Your Child
Suggestions for helping a child understand and cope with a learning disability
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Creating Good Practices
General and disability-specific strategies for helping children improve their organizational skills, work habits, and overall production
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Collaborating with Teachers
Talking points to help parents and teachers communicate and collaborate around a child's education
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Advocating for Your Child
Simple steps to help ensure that a child gets the educational opportunities he or she needs to be successful
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Ten Tips for Students
Practical tips to help children improve organizational skills, work habits, and overall production with schoolwork
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Supporting Your Child
There are many ways in which a parent can help a struggling child. This section provides a variety of suggestions and strategies in areas ranging from in-home practices and parent-teacher collaboration, to educational assessment, legal advocacy, and practical tips to share with students. Not all of these ideas will be right for every circumstance or child, but some may help you to provide the support your child needs to succeed.
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