LD Facts

Professionals Who Can Help

There are a good number of organizations and professionals who can help with any of the issues related to LDs and ADHD. If you are new to the idea, or the diagnosis of learning disabilities, we recommend that you connect with other people, whether it be professionals, a support group, or an online community. Having…

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Questions to Ask Specialists Who Evaluate For Learning Disabilities

In order to get the most benefit from your initial conversation with an assessment specialist, you’ll want to have a good basic understanding about why and how assessments for learning disabilities are conducted – and how to understand the results.   We highly recommend that you review any documents from your School District regarding Special…

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Preparing Your Child For a Psycho-Educational Assessment

What Is Psycho-educational Assessment? As part of the evaluation, your child may undergo a psycho-education assessment. Psychology is the study of mental processes and behaviour. Psycho-educational assessment refers to the psychological tests used to analyze the mental processes underlying your child’s educational performance. The assessment is a piece of the evaluation process and should provide…

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What is an Evaluation?

Evaluation is the process for determining whether a child has a disability and qualifies for special education and related services. It’s the first step in developing an educational program that will help the child learn. Evaluation involves gathering information from a variety of sources about a child’s functioning and development including information provided by the…

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Techniques to Help the Anxious Child

Dealing with social and emotional challenges is part of every day, but it can be particularly challenging for children with learning disabilities (LD). Learning disabilities can affect many skills including listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, mathematics and reasoning – skills that children must use every day to fulfill their roles as students and family members.…

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Some Useful and Relevant Assistive Technology to Consider

The ‘Wheel of Apps’ is not comprehensive, but attempts to identify relevant, useful apps and categorize them according to difficulties faced by people with dyslexia. Note that some apps address a range of difficulties. To save space, we have not placed individual apps into multiple categories, but have listed them under a single category that…

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Terms to Understand in Assistive Technology

Students with LDs will most often require Assistive Technology (AT) that assists with reading, language, organizational skills, and processing information. Software changes quickly – so we’ll just stick to describing the basic sorts of assistive technologies, and share some of the benefits. Cost is often a factor, as is computer hardware. Your school principal will…

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Labels & Labelling

There are a lot of labels and labelling issues in the field of learning disabilities. There are questions about the word “disability”, there are questions about the specific names of specific LDs, and to make things even more complicated, the terms mean different things in different places. Here are some of our thoughts about the…

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Glossary of LD Terms

This glossary is a compilation of terms and definitions of some of the most common terms, adapted from a number of sources. Accommodation: modifications in the curriculum or learning environment so that students with learning disabilities can demonstrate the true level of the learning without compromising academic standards.   Achievement Test: a test that measure…

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Myths & Facts About LDs

Myth: Learning disabilities (LDs) do not really exist. Fact: LDs are real. Recent research indicates neurological differences in the brain structure and function for people who have learning disabilities.   Myth: Learning disabilities are all the same and/or easily understood. Fact: Learning disabilities are complicated. The extent of their impact and the areas of learning…

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