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LD Basics
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- Basic Facts
- An Updated Library of Helpful Resources
- Checking Up on Learning Disabilities
- Learning Disabilities Basics
- Learning Disabilities Explained (Again!)
- Learning Disabilities: Sorting Fact from Fiction
- Learning Disabilities: Things You’ve Always Wanted to Know
- Learning Disabilities: What They Are, and What They Are Not
- Learning Disability Fast Facts
- Learning Styles vs. Learning Disabilities
- Research: A Powerful Tool for Parents and Educators
- Study Supports Improved Ways to Identify Learning Disabilities
- The Neurobiology of Learning Disabilities
- What are Learning Disabilities?
- Early Warning Signs
- LD Across the Lifespan
- Writing
- Reading
- Ask Our Expert: High School Students and Adult Literacy Programs
- Ask Our Expert: Improving Teen's Reading Speed and Comprehension
- Ask our Expert: Learning New Reading Skills Beyond the Third Grade
- Ask Our Expert: Learning New Skills for Expository Reading
- Ask Our Expert: The Benefit of Peers and Professionals Helping Teens Learn to Read
- Family Reading Tips from Kathleen Deerr
- Helping Your Child Learn to Read: Preschool to Grade 3
- Kids with Reading Problems in Middle and High School
- Meaningful Data: Your Guide to Early Reading Success
- Reading Comprehension Instruction for Students with LD
- Reading Comprehension: Reading for Meaning
- Reading Instruction Checklist
- Teaching Reading to Teens with Learning Disabilities
- The NICHD Research Program in Reading Development, Disorders and Instruction
- What Is Dyslexia?
- Math
- Basic EF Facts
- Social and Emotional Challenges
- A Parent’s Perspective: The Social and Emotional World of Children with LD
- Behavior Problems and Learning Disabilities
- Behaviors Linked with LD: How a Functional Assessment Can Help
- Behaviors Linked with LD: Is My Child's Behavior the Sign of a Learning Disability?
- Behaviors Linked with LD: Steering Your Child's Behavior in a Positive Direction
- Building Resilience in Children with Challenges
- Connecting Socially
- Coping Strategies and LD: Enhancing Skills for Success in Life
- Counseling Support for Teens
- Developing Social Skills and Relationships
- Developmental Assets and What They Mean to Your Child
- Effective Support Systems and LD: Enhancing Skills for Success in Life
- Goal Setting and LD: Enhancing Skills for Success in Life
- Helping Children with LD Find Social Success
- Nourishing Your Child's Assets
- Perseverence and LD: Enhancing Skills for Success in Life
- Proactivity and LD: Enhancing Skills for Success in Life
- Reaching for Resilience
- Research Study: Life Success for Children with Learning Disabilities
- School Success: So Much More than ABC's and 123's
- Self-Awareness and LD: Enhancing Skills for Success in Life
- Social/Emotional Challenges of Learning Disabilities
- The Social/Emotional Side of Learning Disabilities
- Tips for Helping Your Child to Build Social Skills
- Self-Esteem
Research Roundup Archives (click here for updated achive list)
- Archives Behavior Problems and Learning Disabilities
Foundations for Math SuccessChecking Up on Learning DisabilitiesCurriculum-Based Measurement (CBM)Publications on Learning DisabilitiesU.S. Department of Education: A Source of Research
- AD/HD
- Aperger's & Non-Verbal
- Giftedness
- Information Processing
Glossaries go>
- Glossary of Early Learning and Literacy Terms
- Glossary of Legislative and Media Terms
- IDEA Words and Terms to Know
In the Home
Parenting Issues go>
- Activities for Daily Living
- Coping with LD
- Are You Recharging Yourself?
- Asking For Help And Support
- Coping: Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities
- Fixing Learning Disabilities? Consumer Beware!
- From Angst to Advocacy
- Managing a Child's Learning Disability: Be Frustrated
- Managing a Child's Learning Disability: Be Tough
- Managing a Child's Learning Disability: Believe No One
- Managing a Child's Learning Disability: Celebrate Every Victory
- Managing a Child's Learning Disability: Mine for Gold
- Family and Marriage
- A Parent's Perspective — Multiple Children, Multiple Challenges
- Being a Spouse or Partner When You Have a Learning Disability
- Effects of Learning Disabilities on a Family and Marriage
- Living with Siblings Who Have Learning Disabilities
- Parenting with Learning Disabilities
- Talking with Family About Your Child's Learning Disability
- Tips for Military Parents on Supporting Their Children in Special Education
- Play, Enrichment, and Holidays
- Homework and Study Skills
- Becoming a Strategic Learner
- Choosing a Tutor for Your Child
- Finding an Educational Therapist
- Home Schooling and Learning Disabilities
- Homework 101
- Homework Tips for Parents
- Homework: For Better or for Worse
- Keeping Literacy Alive Over the Summer
- Organization: A Crucial Executive Skill for Your Child with LD
- Study Skills for Teens
- Summer Reading Tips for Parents
- The ABCs of Organization
- Tips for Teens on Getting Organized
- Especially for Young Children
- A Closer Look at Early School Transition
- Building Literacy Every Day
- Dialogic Reading Video Series
- Early Math Matters: A Guide for Parents of Preschoolers
- Early Math Matters: Preparing Preschoolers to Succeed
- Getting the Most Out of Picture Books
- Helping Children to Develop Early Literacy Skills with Dialogic Reading
- Learning to Read: A Call from Research to Action
- Next Steps: Should I be Concerned?
- Promoting Family Literacy: Raising Ready Readers
- Quality Television Shows that Focus on Early Literacy
- Tips for Parents of Preschoolers
- Understanding Beginning Reading Development in Preschoolers
- Understanding Beginning Writing Skills in Preschoolers
- Understanding Language Development in Preschoolers
- Understanding Learning and Thinking in Preschoolers
- Understanding Numbers and Counting Skills in Preschoolers
- Understanding Physical Development in Preschoolers
- Understanding Social and Emotional Development in Preschoolers
At School
Your Child's Rights go>
- Advocacy and Self-Advocacy
- A Parent's Perspective -- Twenty Years Later
- A Parent's Perspective -- Why My Son Attended His Own IEP Meetings
- A Parent's Perspective — A Success Story
- Advocating for Your Pre-school Child
- Advocating for your School-Aged Child
- Being Your Own Advocate
- Essential Skills for Becoming Your Child's Advocate
- Getting Started At Home
- Getting Started in Advocacy
- Guide to Parent/Teacher Communications and School Meetings
- How Parents can be Advocates for their Children
- Learning to Talk about LD
- Life After High School - What to do in 10th Grade
- Life After High School - What to do in 11th Grade
- Life After High School - What to do in 12th Grade
- Life After High School - What to do in 9th Grade
- Making the Most of the Parent Information and Training Network
- Military Families and Students with LD – An Overview
- NCLD’s Special Education Scorecards Project
- Profiles in Advocacy: Small Steps for Big Changes
- Profiles in Advocacy: Informing Change
- Self-Advocacy
- Special Education Laws and Rights for the Military Child
- Support for Military Families Whose Children have Special Needs
- Talking About Learning Disabilities
- Working with Policymakers
- Working with the Media
- Evaluation
- A Parent's Perspective — LD Evaluation in the Public Schools
- A Parent's Perspective — Taking the Private Route for LD Evaluation
- A Parent's Perspective — The Parent Role in the LD Evaluation Process
- Before Special Education
- Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM)
- If You Suspect a Child has a Learning Disability
- Knowing for Sure
- Putting the Discrepancy Model to Rest
- Questions to Ask a Professional Evaluator
- Testing for Dyslexia
- The Benefits of Being Tested
- Understanding Strengths and Challenges for Teens
- Laws Protecting Students go>
- Parent's Guide to IDEA go>
- IEP and the 504 Plan go>
- Accommodations
- Accommodating Students with Dyslexia
- Accommodations and Modifications for Teens
- Accommodations for Students with Learning Disabilities
- Accommodations vs. Modifications: What’s the Difference?
- Accommodations, Techniques and Aids for Learning
- Making Wise Decisions about Accommodations
- Understanding Accommodations
- Assistive Technology
- Early Learning and Literacy
- Choosing a Preschool: Simple Tips for Parents
- Early Education: The Best Investment We Can Make
- Early Reading and Writing Development
- Leaving a Child Behind Before Kindergarten
- Math Skills and Young Children
- Planning for a Successful Start to Kindergarten
- Preparing for Kindergarten Begins the Year Before
- Preventing Early Reading Failure and its Devastating Downward Spiral
- Recognition & Response: RTI Goes to Preschool
- Redshirting - A "Moving" Experience
- The Transition from Preschool to Kindergarten
- Tips for Preventing Early Reading Failure
- Parent/School Partnership
- A Parent's Perspective -- Tips for School Meetings
- Building a Good Relationship with Your Child's Teacher
- Checklist for Home-School Communications
- Choosing a School: An Overview of What Parents Need to Consider
- Choosing a School: Understanding Your Range of Options
- Communicating with Your Child's School
- Enhanced Communication as a Key to Success
- Making the Most of Your Parent-Teacher Conference
- Response to Intervention - A Primer
- Response to Intervention - Tiers without Tears
- Response to Intervention: The Essentials
- Ten Questions to Ask About RTI
- Test-Taking
- Facing the SAT
- Helping Students with LD Pass High-Stakes Tests
- High School Diploma Options and Students with LD
- Implications of High-Stakes Testing for Students with LD
- Making Sense of Standardized Tests
- New Assessment Option for Students with Disabilities under NCLB
- The SAT: Where It's At
- The Trouble with High-Stakes Testing
- Effective Teaching Practices
- Can School-Based Interventions Enhance the Self-Concept of Students with LD?
- Classroom Strategies
- Common Sense in Education and Research
- Curriculum Based Measurement - Now What?
- Effective Instruction for LD or At-Risk English-Language Learners
- Effective Reading Instruction in the Classroom
- Intervention Research for Adolescents with LD
- Intervention Research for Students with LD
- Interview with Sally Smith - Founder of The Lab School
- Making Research Data Available to All
- Preschool Math Grows Up: Tips for Teachers
- Reading for Meaning: Helping Students Become Successful Readers
- Recommended Resources for Research on Teaching and Learning
- Scientifically Based Practice: Show Me the Evidence
- Scientifically Based Practices - Part II
- Strategic Instruction Model: How to Teach, How to Learn
- Teaching Expressive Writing to Students with LD
- The "What Works Clearinghouse"
- The Effect of Instructional Grouping Format on the Reading Outcomes of Students with Disabilities
- The U.S. Department of Education Regional Lab Program
- Types of Research and Their Roles in Improvement of Practice
- U.S. Department of Education: Source of Research
- What Works vs. Whatever Works
- Working with Dyslexia
- Monitoring Progress
- Universal Design for Learning
Publications from LD.org
- Parent and Advocacy Guide
- A Parent Guide to Response-to-Intervention
- A Parent Guide to Universal Design for Learning
- Assessment Options for IDEA-Eligible Students
- Determining Appropriate Assessment Accommodations for Students with Disabilities
- IDEA Parent Guide
- Making the No Child Left Behind Act Work
- No Child Left Behind: Making the Most of Options for IDEA-eligible Students
- Parent Toolkit: Back-to-School for Parents of Students with LD
- Parent Toolkit: Behavior and Learning Disabilities
- Parent Toolkit: IEP Basics for Parents of Students with LD
- Parent Toolkit: Military Families and Students with Learning Disabilities
- Preschool Services Under IDEA
- Transition to College: Strategic Planning to Ensure Success
- Understanding High-Stakes Testing and Its Impact on Students with Learning Disabilities
- Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act and Section 504
- Understanding the Standards-based IEP
- Checklists and Worksheets
- Antecedent Behavior Consequence (ABC) Chart
- Assistive Technology: Checklist of Questions to Ask Colleges
- Checklist for Transitioning from High School to College
- Creating Great Expectations for an Effective Meeting
- IEP Checklist for Parents
- IEP Meeting Planner
- LD Checklist of Signs and Symptoms
- Organizing Your Concerns about School-Related Problems Worksheet
- Questions to Ask About Evaluation Plans
- Questions to Ask about Your Child’s Eligibility Determination
- Sample Letter: Regarding IEP Team Member Excusal
- Sample Letter: Requesting Evaluation
- Sample Letter: Requesting Evaluation Report
- SMART Goals Worksheet for Students
- Summary of Performance Checklist
- Transition Considerations Checklist
- Types of Records a Parent Needs to Keep
- Visiting a School Worksheet: What to Ask, What to Look For
- Worksheet for Choosing a Tutor
- LD News for Parents Archive >go
- Get Ready to Read! Screening Tool >go
- PodCasts >go
- Age-Related Content
Response to Intervention Network
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