Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention
An excerpt from Katherine Ellison's new memoir about her son's battles with ADD.
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Mother-and-son ADD
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine Ellison on her revealing new memoir about raising a son with ADD (and having it herself).
"Discrepancy" approach results in inconsistent LD identification rates across states
States vary widely in how they identify learning disabilities - and in the percentage of kids they serve in special education.
Avez-vous dyslexie?
Learning a second language is not out of reach for students with learning disabilities
Graduating to real life
How to prepare teens with LD or behavioral issues for the world beyond high school.
Does My Son Have AD/HD or a Behavior Issue?
My son is on point academically. However, he talks out during class, he doesn't respect authority, he makes fun of the blind child in the class, he laughs at the teacher when she is trying to discipline him and he never wants to go to...
How Can I Afford a Tutor for My Child in Special Ed?
My son is in special education. I would like for him to have tutoring services, but I cannot afford them. What do you recommend I do, because tutoring would really help him?
My Child Can't Focus in Math Class
My fifth-grader has a problem staying focused in math class. I have made several changes at home like adjusting his time to one hour a night of television. Play Station has been put away and I have him do multiplication every night.
I have kept...
What's the Best Kind of Tutoring for My Sixth-Grader With LD?
My daughter has recently been tested for a learning difference in math and language composition (verb, preposition, adverbs, nouns, etc.). She is currently in a Montessori school in sixth grade but will be attending a charter school in the fall because she needs one-on-one help...
Quiet Daydreams or AD/HD
My son is a very respectable and very quiet young man of 13. He is in the seventh grade and I have noticed that the teachers tell me since he was in the fourth grade that he seems to space out in class at times...
