What You Need to Know About ADD/ADHD
May is Mental Health Awareness month and Mother’s Day, so it seemed to me the best time to put down on paper the […]
Category: Learning Disabilities
Mothers Always Write
I’m happy to announce that, last Friday, my poem about a mother’s struggle to watch her son deal with a learning disability […]
Following Your Heart for Your Learning Disabled Child
My son was in kindergarten when my heart first told me something was wrong. I started asking questions. I was told he […]
My Top Six Tips for Motivating a Child with LDs
First,let me preface this list by saying that it is not scientifically based. I am not forming this list from a series […]
Dyslexia Support
It’s difficult to offer concrete help for children with dyslexia in a forum such as this because Dyslexia itself is a broad […]
Ownership Matters
Today I watched a wonderful trailer for a movie about being Dyslexic at The Big Picture Movie. This trailer pierced my heart […]
Living with LD, Moments of Dark Joy Shine through the Struggle
My second son, who happens to be dyslexic and have a partial executive functioning disability in planning and organizing, walked out of […]
All Quiet on the Western Front, Through My Son’s Eyes
My son is going into tenth grade this year. When I pulled up his summer reading list on his school’s website and […]