Sentences with phrase «have learning disabilities on»

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He has some learning disabilities, and for him, he needs me to be his mom... and for someone else to coax him to work on the academics.

They've also brought on outside tutors to help with his other learning disabilities.

«Well - controlled studies since then have produced no evidence that food color additives cause hyperactivity or learning disabilities in children,» the FDA says on its Web site.

But helping children with learning disabilities build social skills and relationships can have a lasting influence on their overall success.

As they grow older, barring a physical or learning disability, children will be expected to progress in cognitive and physical development, be ready to take on more responsibility, have more self - control and be able to interact socially with peers and be figuring out how to understand more complex concepts.

Educational Specialist Nathalie Kunin, MEd, shares advice for parents on how to differentiate the signs of your child being a slow learner or having a learning disability

When my daughter brings home anything less than an «A», I simply assume that she has a slight learning disability or was placed on the wrong side of the classroom or simply failed to properly learn the material because of faulty teaching.

Children with physical disabilities may also have problems with potty training that involve learning to get on the potty and getting undressed.

If you believe you or your child has a learning disability in basic reading, contact your school principal or counselor for information on how to request an assessment.

We've collected our most popular articles on sensory processing issues and learning disabilities in children below.

What to Do Now Schedule a conference with your child's teacher, the school support staff, and your pediatrician to get their perspectives on whether your child has a learning disability.

The level of difficulty the child will have in learning will depend on the severity of the disability.

Generations were raised on it yet today With the growth of breastfeedjng we have an explosion of disease, mental illness, learning disabilities, autism and the like.

More than that, you risk your child having learning disabilities later on in life.

If there were truly issues surrounding consent and child protection, then of course the state has a duty to investigate, but given that Kerry and Mark have been deemed perfectly capable of parenting by another local authority social services department it is difficult to see this as anything but a deliberate restriction of freedoms based solely on Kerry having a mild learning disability.

David Congdon, head of campaigns and policy at learning disability charity Mencap, added: «The government has a responsibility to ensure the cuts do not disproportionately impact on those people least able to afford it, yet the chancellor's focus on further welfare cuts means many disabled people will fear they will continue to be the hardest hit.

The Prison Reform Trust has previously reported on the large numbers of people with mental health problems, learning difficulties and learning disabilities held within the prison estate.

The connection to both learning disabilities and special education could indicate cadmium has an array of effects on a child's brain just like lead does.

«A lot of these kids get services to help them early in school but at a certain point they get lost because they may end up having reading problems or other learning disabilities, and people stop working on their language per se.»

THE gene - editing technique CRISPR has been used in the lab to switch on a gene in human brain cells whose dormancy is behind a learning disability.

On its face, the report is shocking: According to a study in the February Journal of the American Medical Association, chronic childhood health conditions — from allergies to learning disabilities — have doubled in recent decades.

WEST ORANGE, N.J. — On Friday, June 6, Senator Cory Booker (D - NJ) toured West Orange's Kessler Foundation and Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation to learn the latest updates in medical rehabilitation research, patient care and treatment, and employment funding strategies that are improving the quality of life of people with disabilities.

She has authored numerous articles and presentations on clinical supervision, supervisor workload practices, family - centered clinical practice, adult neurogenic language disorders, and learning disabilities.

Patients with Alzheimer's disease, Fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, and autism are particularly susceptible to seizures, 12 and the focus of much research at the Waisman Center of Developmental Disabilities has been on the myriad ways drugs, diet and genetic manipulation can affect amyloid beta levels, seizure threshold and behavioral phenotypes.13 In an editorial entitled «Concocting the Right Diet for Brain Health» published December 2011 in Translational Medicine, Dr. Westmark expressed concern about the risks of soy: «The prevailing view is soy is healthy, but much remains to be learned regarding its effects on brain development and function.»

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If it's something unchangeable, like a physical trait or disability, you can focus on learning how to accept yourself and what you have to offer a partner as you are.

Hopkins says a lot of the research in the past has focused particularly on low achieving children, and these children are referred to in the literature as having a learning disability if they are persistently low achieving.

For most of the 40 - plus years the term «dyslexia» has been in existence — and although the diagnosis has long been considered a «learning disability» — it has been based on comparisons with average readers.

This principle is based on the idea that classrooms that include both disabled and nondisabled students provide a more appropriate and beneficial environment for the disabled student, who has greater opportunity to associate with nondisabled peers, and nondisabled students learn that those with disabilities are no less worthy as individuals.

But busy teachers with 30 other kids in each class need help, says Kathleen Laundy, a therapist who has worked extensively on identifying learning disabilities in Connecticut schools and has written a book about school teams that benefit these students.

Other disabilities, such as mild ADD, have such subtle effects on learning that, until recently, they were rarely diagnosed and treated.

You might think that a particular student will struggle later on (he's already been retained in second grade, can't spell his own name, and clearly has a learning disability).

The answer may not be immediately obvious depending on the picture you have in your mind of a disabled kid, but the truth is that the vast majority of kids in the United States labeled as disabled have learning or speech and language problems — which are not usually as pervasively debilitating as Carlos» disability of Autism.

In addition, there are reports of parents seeking to have their students diagnosed with learning disabilities in order to gain accommodations on the SAT or for other reasons.

What was increasingly interesting, to both observe and be informed within the research, was the impact that masks appeared to have on students with identified neurological disabilities and / or learning challenges.

The Cornerhouse also has its own collection of beehives on the third floor, and managed to raise over # 1,000 for the national learning disabilities charity Mencap, through the sales of its homemade jars of honey.

I have a Bachelor's degree in Special Education with a focus on students with learning disabilities, a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of New Orleans with a focus on reading, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in the area of Cognition and Instruction from the University of Connecticut.

It highlighted: nearly half of the providers visited not having adequate strategies, experience or expertise to support their learners with learning difficulties or disabilities; specialist, impartial careers guidance found to be generally weak, with 16 of the 20 local authority websites reviewed failing to provide sufficiently detailed information; too many learners on programmes that do not lead to further learning, employment or independent / supported living; slow progress by special needs learners in English and mathematics; and poor recording of learners» progress, meaning many are not achieving their full potential.

Over the past 25 years, I have conducted research on the use of technology for enhancing learning in students with mild disabilities and those who are at - risk of school failure.

I find that the feature on this extension that allows students to highlight text and have it read aloud is incredibly helpful for students with reading - based learning disabilities in accessing the general education curriculum and other materials that may be above the reading level they are able to decode on their own.

Once again, all of the Year 8s were involved in developing and trialling food stalls and running them, but then we had groups from right across the school: kids funded through disabilities and impairments were making amazing products out of recycled timber; we had hands - on learning, our school - based apprenticeship parks and gardens group, selling plants and running a sausage sizzle; we had art students from Year 8 doing ceramics; we had the girls group that's run by our wellbeing team, the kids who are a bit isolated, they produced succulents in tea cups.

This requires a workforce that is highly skilled, and this includes being sensitive to how a special educational need and / or disability has a direct impact on how a child learns.

I believe that Udio will have a profound impact on millions of students with learning disabilities.

This site includes Listen Up, a student's guide to the Individualized Educational Program; Speak Up, tips on dealing with and compensating for LD - related problems; Read Up, a list of books about LD and kids with LD; and Interact Up, an activity page where students can take a quiz to learn about celebrities with learning disabilities and print a page to show other people what it's like to have a learning disability.

Learning disabilities may interfere with organization and time management skills in the work environment, and often they have a negative impact on employees» performance.

Editor's note: Be sure to see this week's CURRICULUM story, Teaching Special Kids: Online Resources for Teachers, to learn about on - line activities, lesson plans, and resources for teaching students who have disabilities.

In language arts, students research and report on a variety of disabilities and learn about famous people who have overcome those disabilities.

Hattie admits that «it would be possible to have a whole book on the effects of various interventions for students with learning disabilities» (Hattie 2009, 217) and refers to a meta - study of Swanson, Hoskyn and Lee (1999).

For more than five decades, Congress has consistently recognized and acted on the need to promote fair and equal access to public schools for: children of color; children living in poverty; children with disabilities; homeless, foster and migrant children; children in detention; children still learning English; Native children; and girls as well as boys.

Learn how school districts, including large urban and small rural schools, have paired on - demand video - based training with on - site coaching to increase the knowledge, skills, and effectiveness of paraprofessionals supporting children with ASD and other developmental disabilities.