Learn How Overcoming Learning Issues is Possible:

My goal is to help you as you work with your child to help them progress in learning. We want to prevent your child from being held back educationally. Whether your child has ADHD, Aspergers, Dyslexia, or other learning disabilities, overcoming learning issues is possible!

5 Keys to overcoming learning issues and learning success you’ll want to LOOK FOR:

1st Key to Overcoming Learning Issues

Look for information specific to your child’s specific learning disability. Your goal is to UNDERSTAND the issues your child’s neurology creates so that you can work around the difficulties and use their strengths to make things easier. It’s critical to understand, so you can work effectively with your child. This information will also help you separate your child’s disability related behaviors from ordinary childhood behaviors. Understanding the difference is important when it comes to both discipline and education.

2nd Key to Overcoming Learning Issues

Look for information about your child’s learning style(s). Learning styles show the best WAY to teach your child. Teaching by your child’s learning style can make both teaching and learning easier and more effective. You won’t have to repeat yourself and the lessons as many times if your child learns it the the first time you teach it. Learning will also be more FUN for your child!

3rd Key to Overcoming Learning Issues

Have your child evaluated to the extent you can financially afford to do so. If you can afford it, get a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation done by a highly recommended neuropsychologist. The amount of information you learn about how your child’s brain works, their learning strengths, and weaknesses is worth its weight in gold for understanding how TO TEACH and how NOT TO Teach your child. Your child may have neurological issues like processing speed, memory, perception or attention issues that can be managed once you know the issues are present. If you can’t afford a neuropsychological evaluation, then do the best you can with evaluations through the public school, college and university psychology programs, etc. The only way to actually know and understand all of the underlying things that affect your child’s ability to learn easily is through a professional evaluation.

4th Key to Overcoming Learning Issues

Pay attention to the teaching methods and programs that are most effective for helping your child. There are numerous programs listed on the Learning Abled Kids website that are proven to work for ADHD, autism-spectrum, dyslexia and various learning disabilities. Try to combine teaching based on your child’s learning style with proven programs. By doing that, you’ll have the beginning of a recipe for educational success. If you need a step by step guide, consider going through our Curriculum Selection Guide available in our shop. 😉

5th Key to Overcoming Learning Issues

Look for assistive technologies that can improve your child’s access to educational information. For example, if your child can’t yet read, then audiobooks, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools are important. They will help you teach and reach your child. They will also help your child continue to learn informational content without barriers caused by reading or writing skill deficits.

Here are Three Paths you can take to meet your child’s ADHD, Aspergers, Dyslexia, or other LD needs, and avoid retention for your child:

1) ADVOCATE:

Seek the learning support your child needs for overcoming learning issues and to keep your child from falling further behind. Use the IDEA Laws to make sure your child’s school provides an appropriate education. Research shows that being held back does LITTLE to address a child’s ADHD, Aspergers, dyslexia and other LDs. Therefore, if your child is in public school on an IEP or EIP, you might find it helpful to go through the Free IEP Training here on Learning Abled Kids.

(By the way, did you know grade retention is proven by research to be INEFFECTIVE? It doesn’t help most children, and continuing to move forward is PROVEN to be more effective. 😉 ).

2) EDUCATE:

You can hire private providers to fill in learning gaps to keep your child from being held back, and to provide direct assistance with overcoming learning issues. Providers you can hire include tutors, therapists, learning coaches, private schools, etc. Even if you take the private, paid route for educating your child, you’ll still need to serve as an advocate for your child.

Your child can make great educational progress IF the programs are provided properly. Therefore, you’ll also want to understand the programs your child needs and make sure they’re being provided correctly. It will help you advocate more effectively for your child if you go through the steps to understand your child’s ADHD, Aspergers, Dyslexia, and other LDs as mentioned earlier.

3) ACT:

If your child continues to fall behind in school, please KNOW that you can teach your child (it isn’t as difficult as you may think). When you have the right information and proven programs, you CAN effectively educate your child at home whether it’s full-time, on the weekends, during breaks, holidays and the summertime. If you have major doubts, reading Overcome Your Fear of Homeschooling will help you understand a lot better what homeschooling a child who struggles can do toward overcoming learning issues.

You can homeschool around learning disabilities, just like lots of other moms have done, including US! It is NOT as hard as it might seem. It doesn’t matter if your child has ADHD, Aspergers, Dyslexia, or other LDs, you can teach your child.

I have followed all three paths. We did end up having to school our boys ourselves. I went through the Georgia Advocacy Office’s Parent Leadership Support Program to learn about special education advocacy. I advocated at my child’s school. We hired professionals to provide instruction I didn’t think I could handle. Ultimately I ended up teaching my children myself in spite of their ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, executive dysfunction, and more. We had great success overcoming learning issues, and both of our kids graduated from college with great GPAs.

YOU CAN TEACH YOUR CHILD!

Your child may be struggling with dyslexia (reading decoding), dysgraphia (writing and written expression), and/or have dyscalculia (math facts and math reasoning). It can be frustrating. It’s scary when you think about the long-term issues your child may have if he never learns the basics. I have been there and I have worried that overcoming learning issues wasn’t possible!

If you’d like to know more about why we pulled our children out of school, read our story of how we overcame learning disabilities through homeschooling. I helped my children overcome their adhd, dyslexia and learning disabilities by designing well-planned, individualized education programs. Although our results are not typical, I am fully confident your child can learn when provided carefully chosen, one-on-one instruction that meets your child’s specific learning needs.

For help with your questions about overcoming learning issues, please join our support group on Facebook or Learning Abled Kids Support Group on Facebook. Ask questions, so you’ll find ways to help your child too.

Feel FREE to explore all of the resources here to help with overcoming learning issues due to your child’s ADHD, Aspergers, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, and other Learning Disabilities.

THANK YOU for being a champion for your child!!

Your child may not thank you now, but he will when he’s an adult. Whether your child has ADHD, Aspergers, Dyslexia, or other LDs, YOU are AWESOME. You are doing all you can to prevent your child from falling through the cracks and that makes you an awesome parent. 😉

Plainly put: You’re AWESOME for simply for being here to learn about ADHD, autism, dyslexia and how to help your child with overcoming learning issues!

If you have any issues or questions, please feel free to email me at: (yahoo dot com).

First, I’ve shared 5 KEY pieces of information about what you should look for to help your child.

Second, I’ve shared your 3 main options for meeting your child’s needs.