Dyslexia & Learning DisAbilities
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This graphic comes from: Decoding Dyslexia-MA via Jen Kelly!
Wisconsin’s informational guidebook on dyslexia and related conditions is now available at https://dpi.wi.gov/reading/dyslexiaguidebook.
Per Act 86, the informational guidebook discusses screening, instruction and intervention, and resources that can support improved learning for school-aged individuals with characteristics of dyslexia. The audience for the information is broad and includes, but is not limited to, parents and families, educators, interventionists or reading teachers, and educational leaders. Per state law, each school district will include a link to the informational guidebook on dyslexia and related conditions on its website. The district link must be available no later than December 1, 2021. The advisory committee and the DPI believe school/district teams - including family and community members - can use the guidebook as a tool for having conversations about how to continually improve a local, equitable multi-level system of support to best meet the needs of all readers who struggle, including learners with characteristics of dyslexia. For more information about the informational guidebook, including a guidance document for having conversations using the guidebook, visit https://dpi.wi.gov/reading/dyslexiaguidebook. Subscriber Submission: Barb Novak, Wisconsin DPI ------------------------------------------ Understanding and Supporting Students Dyslexia and other Learning Differences Do you support an individual with Dyslexia or other "Learning Differences" Resources recommended by viewers to this website Learning and Tutor Resource http://www.tutorhunt.com/resource/ BBC Online Learning Resource http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/ Teaching Resource at TES https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources/ ------------------------------------------ Dyslexia Resources / Information https://www.pinterest.com/wisconsinbranch/dyslexia-resources-information/ ------------------------------------------ Dyslexic Pals http://www.i-m.mx/dyslexicpals/dyslexicpals/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/731419066990433/828622873936718/ Youth and Family Resources [email protected] Dyslexicpalsgooglepluspage Dyslexicpals facebook page Resource out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Dyslexia Pals https://www.facebook.com/jen.keDyslexia Pals https://www.facebook.com/jen.kelly.9400 Jen’s passion is supporting all things Dyslexia so be a part of her network! Did you know 1 billion people have dyslexia? Would you like all schools to implement “dyslexia screenings”? Last year, Cassidy and Mikulski co-sponsored a Senate resolution designating October as "National Dyslexia Awareness Month," and "recognizing that dyslexia has significant educational implications that must be addressed." http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F49%2F%3Fuuid%3D58253&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed Info on: Decoding Dyslexia - FL Scans Show Brain Dictionary Groups words by meaning Your Brain Has a “Delete” Button – Here’s how to use it Roots & Shoots online Course - Complete the course and mentor young people to lead change in their communities by mapping needs, collaborating with stakeholders, and designing practical solutions in the form of campaigns (and learn a lot along the way). Connect young people to Dr. Goodall’s message of hope while facilitating a sense of empowerment that comes from helping others. More Dyslexia Resources http://www.childrensdyslexiacenters.org/ The Milwaukee Children's Dyslexia center www.cdcmilwaukee.com Child Mind Institute Our new understanding about how DNA is 'expressed' means that genetic risks (for addiction, depression, etc.) aren't fixed. https://www.facebook.com/ChildMindInstitute/?fref=nf Decoding Dyslexia - WI· https://www.facebook.com/LearningAlly.org/posts/10154214257013982 Events Calendar > Training > Orton-Gillingham Training Learning Ally - Together It's Possible www.learningally.org -------------------------------------------- College Resources for Students with Disabilities guidebook,: http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/resources-for-students-with-disabilities/ Students with disabilities have countless resources available to make the transition to higher education less stressful. Check out this guide as it has: * A comprehensive overview of the various cognitive, physical, or other types of disabilities students face while attending school * Reviews of several technologies and advocate groups available to students who face various disabilities, such as dyslexia and dyscalculia * Tips and resources to help students transition from college to career ------------------------------------------ www.stuffforparents.com This website has pod casts by a parent who is an educator that now home schools his children. He also has a book out there about this topic. Marc LaPointe is also an education consultant for students who have disabilities. www.dyslexia.yale.edu Features parent stories, student stories, professional stories, strategies, books of reference, information for educators, parents, advocacy you name it...they got it. As a viewer, you may also join their sight and blog on it, answer other peoples questions. There are so many opportunities on this site. Please check it out! www.dyslexiacaucus-cassidy.house.gov I encourage you to check out this site. This is my personal next step in this journey to make dyslexia a priority. This website shows the members of each state (House of Representatives) that have joined the cause. It also shows how they have come to support it and what they are trying to do. My mission this fall is bring representatives from our state to the table and join the cause. It is going to take a lot of effort, but I think we, as parents and educators, can make this happen. www.ncld.org If you want to become an advocate for your child, the NCLD has a wonderful hand book detailing the information and legislature that you will need to understand to become an effective advocate. The handbook is down-loadable and free of charge. A great resource. They also have many tips for finding a mentor f NICHCY Resources can now be found at - The Center for Parent Information and Resources www.parentcenterhub.org CPIR is pleased to serve as the new home of many of the resources developed by NICHCY, the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities. NICHCY’s funding ended in October 2013, but many of its products and webpages will live on here, where we can main… |
Thank you Jen ( Dyslexc Pals - on Facebook) for sharing –
FREE display kit for Dyslexia awareness month Consider asking a teacher, principal, library to put up a small display! The acts of many can have exponential effects! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Dyslexia-Awareness-Month-Display-Editable-for-Bulletin-Boards-and-Presentations-3407495 Poor working memory can be a big issue for kids with dyslexia. This article has some great advice. https://www.facebook.com/113209298712058/posts/2173099989389635/ Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia and Vision – impact – from American Academy of Pediatrics! Go to: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/124/2/837.full.pdf To read complete publication recommendations… The inability to read and comprehend is a major obstacle to learning, which may have long-term educational, social, and economic consequences. Depending on the definition chosen, 5% to 17.5% of people in the United States have a learning disability, with an estimated 2.6 million children aged 6 to 11 years affected.2 Learning disabilities often prevent children from reaching their full potential. They may cause children to have difficulty learning to listen, speak, read, spell, write, reason, concentrate, solve mathematical problems, and organize information. These children may also have difficulty mastering social skills or motor coordination. Learning difficulties are frequently associated with and complicated by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.2 Left untreated, learning difficulties may lead to frustration, low self-confidence, and poor self-esteem and substantially increase the risk of developing psychological and emotional problems.3 Approximately 80% of people with learning disabilities have dyslexia.2,4–7 The terms “reading disability” and “dyslexia” are often used interchangeably in the literature.8 Dyslexia is a primary reading disorder and results from a written word processing abnormality in the brain.2,4 It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent sight word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wisconsin Reading Coalition is a grassroots movement of parents, educators, advocacy organizations, health professionals, and business leaders committed to bringing scientifically-based reading instruction and intervention to all Wisconsin students. http://www.wisconsinreadingcoalition.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Homework Help Brenda Yaeger from CESA 5 had compiled a list of homework help websites including sites for special education. Some of these sites will be helpful for over the summer and even have sections of games and puzzles for different subjects. www.eduhound.com/ www.familyeducation.com/home/ www.iser.com/specialproducts.html http://www.linkup-parents.com/specialed.htm www.iser.com/ http://mathforum.org/ http://www.education-world.com/ http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/school_bell/Homework_Help/ www.infoplease.com/homework/ http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/ http://www.about.com/homework/ http://www.jiskha.com/ http://www.refdesk.com/homework.html http://www.homeworkspot.com/ http://www.algebra.com/ http://www.gomath.com/ http://www.iknowthat.com/com http://www.u46teachers.org/public/docs/homewrk.htm http://www.highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm http://www.factmonster.com/ http://www.schoolwork.org/ http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/index.html http://videoverite.tv/pages/film-JID-about.html ---------------------------------- Learning Disabilities: Things You’ve Always Wanted to Know (audio) People often ask: Is there a cure for LD? What’s the role of brain structure? How can I deal with someone who’s in denial about LD? This podcast provides answers! Listen and learn. (10 min.) http://ncld.org/checklists-a-more/podcasts/learning-disabilities-things-youve-always-wanted-to-know-audio#top ---------------------------------- Video: What is Executive Function? Learning Disabilities expert Dr. Sheldon Horowitz describes how we all use executive function -- and how it may function (or misfire) in a child with LD. Watch and learn. http://www.ncld.org/ld-basics/ld-aamp-executive-functioning/basic-ef-facts/what-is-executive-function ---------------------------------- How Can I Learn a Trade? Internships, Apprenticeships, and Career and Technical Education http://www.ncld.org/college-aamp-work/in-the-workplace/finding-the-right-job/vocational-programs --------------------------------- AAHD Accepting Applications for 2012-2013 Scholarship Program AAHD is accepting applications for the AAHD Scholarship Program (2012-2013) which supports students with disabilities pursuing higher education in a field related to disability and health. Preference is given to students who plan to pursue undergraduate/graduate studies in the field of public health, behavioral health, epidemiology, health promotion, disability studies, to include disability policy and disability research. Scholarships are limited to under $1,000. Scholarships are competitive each year. Please visit the AAHD website at http://www.aahd.us/initiatives/scholarship-program/ to download application. Deadline for submission is November 15, 2012. Please circulate this opportunity throughout your networks. For further information, please contact Maria Manolatos, AAHD Scholarship Coordinator, at [email protected] American Association on Health and Disability /(301) 545-6140 www.aahd.us Thanks Amy! [email protected] --------------------------------- ADHD Parenting Advice from Michael Phelps' Mom www.additudemag.com Need some ADHD parenting advice? Learn how the mothers of three ADHD super-achievers — an Olympic record-breaker, a TV heavyweight, and a world-class adventurer — helped their kids beat the odds. “Whenever a teacher would say, ‘Michael can’t do this,’ I’d counter with, ‘Well, what are you doing to help him?’”. - Debbie Phelps, mother of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps & Principal of a Middle School in Maryland" ----------------------------------- Warning Signs of Dyslexia in Children Grades 3-8 Worried that your child may have an LD but you aren’t sure what the signs are? We now offer lists of common signs (sorted by age range) for dyslexia. See the warning signs of dyslexia for Grades 3-8. http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/common-dyslexia-symptoms-warning-signs-in-children-in-grades-3-8?utm_source=newsletter_september_11_2012&utm_ medium=email&utm_content=text&utm_campaign=ldnews ----------------------------------- Dyslexia impacts an estimated 15% of people, and it is a lifelong challenge for the individual diagnosed and for his or her parents, siblings, and teachers. They must navigate this road together—from recognizing common warning signs, to evaluation, diagnosis and developing support systems for coping. NCLD is here to help! We have developed a new Dyslexia Toolkit filled with resources and tools you need to: Take the first step by increasing your awareness. http://ncld.convio.net/site/PageNavigator/dyslexia_ toolkit_signup.html?autologin=true Testing for Dyslexia By NCLD Editorial Team http://www.ncld.org/parents-child-disabilities/ld-testing/testing-for-dyslexia?utm_source=newsletter_september_25_2012&utm_medium=email&utm_ content=text&utm_campaign=ldnews A Typeface Just for Dyslexics? — The Book Designer www.thebookdesigner.com A Typeface Just for Dyslexics? Looks at OpenDyslexic by Abelard Gonzalez and copyright by Bitstream ... Remediation for Dyslexia - An introduction to Orton-Gillingham www.icohere.com/dti www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org Tracy Block-Zaretsky and Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley from the dyslexia training institute. I have a binder full of information from this class. Here is a small sample of recommended reading and resources: Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf www.interdys.org www.lda.org http://www.readingrockets.org/podcasts/phonics |
Organization: A Crucial Executive Skill for Your Child with LD
http://www.ncld.org/in-the-home/supporting-learning-at-home/homework-and-study-skills/organization-a-crucial-executive-skill-for-your-child-with-ld
Bonnie Z. Goldsmith
Published: October 29 2010 | Updated: April 27 2012 If you’d just get organized!
How can you find anything in here?
The report is due tomorrow? And you haven’t started it?
How could you forget to turn in your homework? I helped you with it!
What’s one thing that makes for a parent’s unhappy day? Getting a phone call or email from school, informing you that your child -- who may spend lots of time doing homework – hasn’t turned anything in for six weeks. This wake-up call may be your first indication that your child is having trouble in school. The information is doubly disconcerting when you find, buried in your child’s heavy backpack, lots of completed homework that was never turned in.
A talk with your child and your child’s teacher may reveal that missing homework is only part of the problem. Your child may also be late with assignments, late to class, frequently without necessary supplies, and missing library books. Although your child is intelligent and wants to do well in school, something is getting in the way. Particularly for children with learning disabilities (LD) or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), that “something” is organizational skills.
You Know Your Child!
Of all the brain-based habits of thought known as executive skills, organization looms especially large, particularly for children with learning disabilities. Disorganized children with LD or AD/HD are often called lazy, unmotivated – even defiant. You may be one of the few people in your child’s life who understands that learning disabilities complicate children’s development of organizational skills.
All the executive skills are related. The child who doesn’t start the report until the night before it’s due may have difficulty estimating how long a project will take. Your child may panic when a task seems difficult. Your child may get overwhelmed trying to juggle multiple projects, or simply not know how to plan, begin, and follow through with the steps required to get an assignment done. These are all aspects of organization, that crucial skill that enables us to do what needs doing – whether it’s baking a birthday cake, pulling together an agenda for a meeting, or completing a science project.
Your child may well understand the value of being organized but may not have the slightest idea how to get that way. That’s where you can provide invaluable assistance and encouragement.
Helping your child learn organizational skills may be quite a challenge for both of you. There is no blueprint for organization. What works one year or for one class will not work for another. Still, if you stay flexible, you can help your child recognize, improve, and work around his or her organizational challenges.
Short-Term Strategies
To help your child, think first of short-term strategies that focus on particular tasks or assignments. When your own project deadlines loom and you have no plan to meet them, you probably feel out of control, maybe even panicky. Disorganized children feel that way too. They may feel helpless in the face of any task that isn’t easy and short. As school gets more challenging, these children’s frustrations escalate and their self-esteem plummets. Juggling multiple projects becomes so difficult that children may opt out and simply drop everything. You can help your child avoid this destructive pattern.
Begin by convincing your child – through your patience, encouragement, and good example – that organizational skills will help him feel better about himself. No one likes to feel out of control or on a slippery slope to failure. Your child wants to become more independent, wants you to stop nagging about schoolwork, and longs to avoid the fallout from those discouraging parent-teacher conferences. Help your child see that the smallest improvements will make his or her life easier.
Remember that there is only one criterion for an organizational system: it needs to work for your child. It’s crucial for you and your child to communicate openly and for you to approach the problem without being critical or blaming. Partnerships between parents and teachers are essential to help children succeed; your partnership with your child is also essential. Even younger children need to take part in finding solutions. No system will work if your child doesn’t buy into it.
The Power of Encouragement and Example
Organization is about thinking. What is the most efficient way for me to get this project done on time? What will help me remember to do my homework and turn it in? How can I quickly find the materials I need? Rest assured that you can help your child improve her or his organization with simple, gradual strategies.
You don’t need to spend money on a multitude of folders or the latest software. Your most precious asset is your matchless insight into what makes your child tick. Help your child find what will work. Help your child be flexible, since children’s preferences change as do teachers’ requirements. Look for quick, easy ways to begin organizing: a simple planner that you and your child check daily, a routine for filling and emptying a backpack, a schedule for daily homework, study, and review.
Show your child the importance of organization in daily life. Encourage planning at home by posting a family calendar and involving your child in keeping it current. Show your child how one family member’s obligations affect others in the family. A dental appointment, a school conference, and choir practice can’t all happen at the same time without considerable planning. Emphasize how planning saves time. A shopping list gives direction to a trip to the supermarket.
If you’re a person who relies on lists, a datebook, or a PDA, talk with your child about how your personal organizing system works (or falls short). Be honest about your own organizational frustrations, so your child will understand that organization is a skill that many people – even adults – struggle to master.
The Comfort of Routines
All of us develop routines and habits to get us through the day. Your child will benefit greatly from knowing what to expect during a typical school day and week. Keeping track of homework and assignments by writing in a planner every day (or making daily entries on an online calendar) gives your child a visual reminder of what needs doing.
A planner of some kind is vital for organization. You probably know best which kind will work for your child, but discuss it together. If the planner you start with doesn’t work, help your child make the necessary changes. Staying organized means creating a system and sticking with it. The system best suited to your child may not be one you could follow, and your child’s preferences may change with age.
Your great advantage as a parent is your intimate knowledge of your child’s personality, strengths, and challenges. Consider how your child thinks and works. What makes your child feel good or bad? Some children love different-colored file folders and a rainbow of highlighters and sticky notes; others get nervous just looking at them. Getting organized has to make your child feel better.
Turn Big Tasks into Little Steps
Help your child learn to plan by showing how to reduce tasks to their smallest parts. Most teachers provide guidelines for homework and larger projects, usually with interim deadlines. They may distribute checklists so children can check off a step when it’s completed. You, however, know your own child best. If the interim steps provided by a teacher are still too big for your child to tackle without extreme stress, help your child simplify and break down each step. If your child needs more deadlines to feel able to progress on a task, add more deadlines to the teacher’s list. Guide your child to focus on one task at a time.
Introduce your child to the satisfaction of checking off completed tasks. Help your child break out of the thicket of requirements for a complex project. Together, and with the advice of your child’s teachers, set realistic goals. Encourage all positive signs. Don’t expect perfection or even consistency. Each movement forward takes away a little anxiety. Reduce your child’s stress (and your own) step by step.
Attitude Is Everything
As best you can, stay constructive in your attitude toward your child’s organizational difficulties. Don’t criticize. Refuse to allow yourself to think of your child as lazy, unmotivated, or incompetent. Give your child some positive things to say to herself:
PIER is an informational site. It is not a legal services agency and cannot provide legal advice or legal representation. Any information contained on this site is not intended as legal or medical advice but only as an informational resource. This web site was created to inform and educate. The content should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, recommendations, diagnosis or treatment.
You are encouraged to confirm all information with other sources and a physician. If you have health concerns, please call or see a qualified health care provider without delay. .
We do not endorse any treatments, providers, or product information in this site.
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Bonnie Z. Goldsmith
Published: October 29 2010 | Updated: April 27 2012 If you’d just get organized!
How can you find anything in here?
The report is due tomorrow? And you haven’t started it?
How could you forget to turn in your homework? I helped you with it!
What’s one thing that makes for a parent’s unhappy day? Getting a phone call or email from school, informing you that your child -- who may spend lots of time doing homework – hasn’t turned anything in for six weeks. This wake-up call may be your first indication that your child is having trouble in school. The information is doubly disconcerting when you find, buried in your child’s heavy backpack, lots of completed homework that was never turned in.
A talk with your child and your child’s teacher may reveal that missing homework is only part of the problem. Your child may also be late with assignments, late to class, frequently without necessary supplies, and missing library books. Although your child is intelligent and wants to do well in school, something is getting in the way. Particularly for children with learning disabilities (LD) or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), that “something” is organizational skills.
You Know Your Child!
Of all the brain-based habits of thought known as executive skills, organization looms especially large, particularly for children with learning disabilities. Disorganized children with LD or AD/HD are often called lazy, unmotivated – even defiant. You may be one of the few people in your child’s life who understands that learning disabilities complicate children’s development of organizational skills.
All the executive skills are related. The child who doesn’t start the report until the night before it’s due may have difficulty estimating how long a project will take. Your child may panic when a task seems difficult. Your child may get overwhelmed trying to juggle multiple projects, or simply not know how to plan, begin, and follow through with the steps required to get an assignment done. These are all aspects of organization, that crucial skill that enables us to do what needs doing – whether it’s baking a birthday cake, pulling together an agenda for a meeting, or completing a science project.
Your child may well understand the value of being organized but may not have the slightest idea how to get that way. That’s where you can provide invaluable assistance and encouragement.
Helping your child learn organizational skills may be quite a challenge for both of you. There is no blueprint for organization. What works one year or for one class will not work for another. Still, if you stay flexible, you can help your child recognize, improve, and work around his or her organizational challenges.
Short-Term Strategies
To help your child, think first of short-term strategies that focus on particular tasks or assignments. When your own project deadlines loom and you have no plan to meet them, you probably feel out of control, maybe even panicky. Disorganized children feel that way too. They may feel helpless in the face of any task that isn’t easy and short. As school gets more challenging, these children’s frustrations escalate and their self-esteem plummets. Juggling multiple projects becomes so difficult that children may opt out and simply drop everything. You can help your child avoid this destructive pattern.
Begin by convincing your child – through your patience, encouragement, and good example – that organizational skills will help him feel better about himself. No one likes to feel out of control or on a slippery slope to failure. Your child wants to become more independent, wants you to stop nagging about schoolwork, and longs to avoid the fallout from those discouraging parent-teacher conferences. Help your child see that the smallest improvements will make his or her life easier.
Remember that there is only one criterion for an organizational system: it needs to work for your child. It’s crucial for you and your child to communicate openly and for you to approach the problem without being critical or blaming. Partnerships between parents and teachers are essential to help children succeed; your partnership with your child is also essential. Even younger children need to take part in finding solutions. No system will work if your child doesn’t buy into it.
The Power of Encouragement and Example
Organization is about thinking. What is the most efficient way for me to get this project done on time? What will help me remember to do my homework and turn it in? How can I quickly find the materials I need? Rest assured that you can help your child improve her or his organization with simple, gradual strategies.
You don’t need to spend money on a multitude of folders or the latest software. Your most precious asset is your matchless insight into what makes your child tick. Help your child find what will work. Help your child be flexible, since children’s preferences change as do teachers’ requirements. Look for quick, easy ways to begin organizing: a simple planner that you and your child check daily, a routine for filling and emptying a backpack, a schedule for daily homework, study, and review.
Show your child the importance of organization in daily life. Encourage planning at home by posting a family calendar and involving your child in keeping it current. Show your child how one family member’s obligations affect others in the family. A dental appointment, a school conference, and choir practice can’t all happen at the same time without considerable planning. Emphasize how planning saves time. A shopping list gives direction to a trip to the supermarket.
If you’re a person who relies on lists, a datebook, or a PDA, talk with your child about how your personal organizing system works (or falls short). Be honest about your own organizational frustrations, so your child will understand that organization is a skill that many people – even adults – struggle to master.
The Comfort of Routines
All of us develop routines and habits to get us through the day. Your child will benefit greatly from knowing what to expect during a typical school day and week. Keeping track of homework and assignments by writing in a planner every day (or making daily entries on an online calendar) gives your child a visual reminder of what needs doing.
A planner of some kind is vital for organization. You probably know best which kind will work for your child, but discuss it together. If the planner you start with doesn’t work, help your child make the necessary changes. Staying organized means creating a system and sticking with it. The system best suited to your child may not be one you could follow, and your child’s preferences may change with age.
Your great advantage as a parent is your intimate knowledge of your child’s personality, strengths, and challenges. Consider how your child thinks and works. What makes your child feel good or bad? Some children love different-colored file folders and a rainbow of highlighters and sticky notes; others get nervous just looking at them. Getting organized has to make your child feel better.
Turn Big Tasks into Little Steps
Help your child learn to plan by showing how to reduce tasks to their smallest parts. Most teachers provide guidelines for homework and larger projects, usually with interim deadlines. They may distribute checklists so children can check off a step when it’s completed. You, however, know your own child best. If the interim steps provided by a teacher are still too big for your child to tackle without extreme stress, help your child simplify and break down each step. If your child needs more deadlines to feel able to progress on a task, add more deadlines to the teacher’s list. Guide your child to focus on one task at a time.
Introduce your child to the satisfaction of checking off completed tasks. Help your child break out of the thicket of requirements for a complex project. Together, and with the advice of your child’s teachers, set realistic goals. Encourage all positive signs. Don’t expect perfection or even consistency. Each movement forward takes away a little anxiety. Reduce your child’s stress (and your own) step by step.
Attitude Is Everything
As best you can, stay constructive in your attitude toward your child’s organizational difficulties. Don’t criticize. Refuse to allow yourself to think of your child as lazy, unmotivated, or incompetent. Give your child some positive things to say to herself:
- I’ll get it done.
- I’ve done my best.
- Good job!
- This is easier than it was last week.
PIER is an informational site. It is not a legal services agency and cannot provide legal advice or legal representation. Any information contained on this site is not intended as legal or medical advice but only as an informational resource. This web site was created to inform and educate. The content should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, recommendations, diagnosis or treatment.
You are encouraged to confirm all information with other sources and a physician. If you have health concerns, please call or see a qualified health care provider without delay. .
We do not endorse any treatments, providers, or product information in this site.
As with any program - we strongly encourage you to thoroughly check out references. Create a free
Easy to read tip sheets divided into four developmental stages of childhood designed to help families promote health and well being at all ages. www.brightfutureatgeorgetownuniversity.com
PIER is an informational site. It is not a legal services agency and cannot provide legal advice or legal representation. Any information contained on this site is not intended as legal or medical advice but only as an informational resource. This web site was created to inform and educate. The content should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, recommendations, diagnosis or treatment.
You are encouraged to confirm all information with other sources and a physician. If you have health concerns, please call or see a qualified health care provider without delay. .
We do not endorse any treatments, providers, or product information in this site.
As with any program - we strongly encourage you to thoroughly check out references.
You are encouraged to confirm all information with other sources and a physician. If you have health concerns, please call or see a qualified health care provider without delay. .
We do not endorse any treatments, providers, or product information in this site.
As with any program - we strongly encourage you to thoroughly check out references.