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Learning Disabilities

Cause of Learning Disability?
Scientists are in the process of studying the causes of learning disability (LD) as they are also in the pursuit of finding ways to prevent it.

Learning Disabilities and IQ
Contrary to common perceptions, learning disabilities are not synonymous with a person's IQ or intelligence quotient. Children with average intelligence can be afflicted with learning disabilities too.

Autism

Does Your Child Have Autism?
Does Your Child Have Autism? Do you know that Autism Symptoms of children can be identified early?

Could Your Child's Disorder Be Yours?
Developmental problems and different psychiatric disorders are known to run in families. These are study-backed findings attributing genetic components in family histories.

Treating autism children
Children with autism display the most irrational and emotionally challenging symptoms. Doctors and parents can use a variety of treatment methods to manage these uncontrollable behaviors

Parents Guide to Teaching Autistic Children
For parents, nurturing and rearing an autistic child is such a very difficult experience. Often, it leaves them with huge frustration and confusion. However, parents can cope with the challenge of raising an autistic child by knowing the right ways and through the support of care groups.

Autism and Tantrums
Reacting too strongly to stubborn behavior or readily giving in to the demand of the child is a big no-no when dealing the tantrums. Autism and tantrums are closely related.

Autism Myths, Misconceptions and Common Fallacies
It is a widespread misconception that people with autism do not make eye contact, but they actually do. They also show physical and emotional affection. They smile, laugh, and are capable of displaying a wide range of emotions.

Dyslexia

What is Dyslexia ?
There are various degrees of severity for the condition. However, dyslexia is manifested in difficulties in expressive and receptive language. Phonological processing in writing, reading, spelling, and even in Math, is included here.

Symptoms of Dyslexia in Children
As a parent of a dyslexic child, you should not lose hope right away. Many experts agree that with the appropriate teaching methods, any dyslexic child is still able to achieve the same sort of progress as his peers who are not dyslexic.

How does kids with Dyslexia Read ?
Most of the children learn how to read by knowing how speech sounds form words. Then, as they recognize the sounds, they connect them to each of the alphabet letters.

 

ADD, ADHD

Teaching a child with ADHD
If you notice a particular child who is excessively hyperactive, then chances are, that child is afflicted with the condition. Hyperactivity can be manifested through the child's inability to sit or keep still at one place. The hyperactive child is constantly on the go.

How is ADHD being treated ?
Behavior modification and therapy make great methods towards the treatment of ADHD. As parents, you can help your children gain more focus on their tasks. You can also assist them in making them feel calmer when they become over stimulated.

Parenting ADHD Children
As parents of an ADHD child, you do not really need to put the finger on either one of you because the condition is not instigated by bad parenting skills at all. And since the problem is already there, then the logical thing to do is to deal with it and find apt solutions to deal with it effectively.


3 types of ADHD and how they are diagnosed
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5 Simple Concentration Building Techniques for Kids with ADHD


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Dyspraxia

What is Dyspraxia ?
Dyspraxia is commonly defined as an immaturity or impairment of organizing movements. Problems of language, thought, and perception are usually related to dyspraxia.


Dyspraxia help for parents
The most important thing for a child with dyspraxia is to make him or her feel good just for the mere fact that he or she is trying to talk. Always acknowledge a child's achievement when he has said something clearly and successfully.

 

Epilepsy

Epilepsy in young children
On the surface, a child suffering from epilepsy has the same level of motor skills and intelligence as those children of their age. This is why most of these young patients go to normal schools.

 

More special needs resources

http://www.raising-special-kids.com
Autism Today
Total Transformation Program for ODD and ADHD child behavior problems

 

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