Organization in the home can be key to keeping a child with ADHD calm and providing for a more relaxed environment. Check out this article to see how your home stacks up.
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Curiosity leads to the need to learn. The “three C’s” lead to successful students.
Sadly, the boys-are-better-than-girls bias is still around, lingering in our schools. And many teachers are not aware that favoring boys over girls would not only lead to a wider gender-wage gap, but wasted talent. When girls are sidelined, their aptitude for math suffer and so do their grades.
Talking with your child's teacher regarding behavior problems your young child is having is always difficult. Parents often find it far easier to approach the conference angry or defensive, but those meetings are rarely productive. Put aside the anger, anxiety and fear and consider the teacher and your child as allies learning to work together. Before the Meeting Take some time before the conference to seek information from your child and perhaps your child's school friends. Get the child's point of view, opinions and facts. Ask when the problems seemed to have started. Was there some event in the child's life around that time? Is he acting out in rebellion, confusion or pain?
More and More children are being put on psychoactive drugs. Parents are often pressured to do so. What do you think we should do about so many psycho active drugs being so easily prescribed to children?
I think it is safe to say that all parents want the best for their children. They do their best to provide an environment and create an atmosphere that enables the child to reach his or her full potential. So when a child is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), parents feel a sense of helplessness. Such a diagnosis will certainly be a challenge in the child's life, but there is actually a lot parents can do to help control and minimize the symptoms of ADHD.
Jackie Penn, a former public school and private school teacher, joyfully homeschools her 14 year old daughter using an online curriculum, Time4Learning. Jackie made the arduous journey from classroom teacher to homeschool mom just over six years ago and hasn't looked back since. Currently, Jackie writes a blog, Quaint Scribbles, tutors, writes literature units, and keeps busy with her farm animals.
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How often do you wonder if your child is using his/her brain? Does it ever seem like the brain and the body of your child are two separate beings? Do you sometimes sense a disconnect with your child?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, your child's brain might not have received proper stimulation some time during its course of development. And, during this course of development, most stimulation occurs through physical activity. For instance, when a baby is crawling and looks up and to the left, he/she is making neural pathways that will later on affect his/her visual memory. If the baby doesn't do this enough or at all, a learning difference could crop up later on.
When your child struggles academically or even generally in life, never write him or her off. That little one of yours is as gifted as the kid next door.
Think about it: can we truly be a paperless society? How about if we were to tell you that discarding the conventional fill-up-the-form routine may help those with dyslexia enter the job market?
There are great books about dyslexia that is available in the bookstores. One good book to read is called "The Everyting Parent's Guide to Children with Dyslexia" by Abigail Marshall.
Can your Dyslexic child be reading normally in 6 weeks? One mom made it happen. Sometimes it's the love and dedication of a parent that allows a child to succeed.
Different myths about dyslexia are being perceived by a lot of people and one of these myths is that they see things backwards. The fact is dyslexia is not caused by having vision problems but rather the difficulty in reading.
"The child goes to kindergarten when he is 5 or 6 years old and begins to learn his alphabets. He is now taught the letter ‘b’. He has no problem learning that. The confusion arises when the letter ‘b’ is turned the other way around and he is taught that this is the letter‘d’. It sounds almost the same as the letter ‘b’ and he also remembers that a car is a car regardless of the angle he sees it from. A few days later the teacher turns the letter upside down and calls it ‘p’ and finally turns ‘p’ to face another direction and calls it ‘q’."
"I have seen many children, dyslexic or otherwise who are confused by some of these letters including m/w and words such as was/saw and numbers 6/9. They outgrow this confusion usually by end of primary 2."
Before we make any perception about people with dyslexia, we must be able to understand their situation first and know more about the facts to truly comprehend what they are going through
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Every child knows that when you say Disney, they would immediately think of princes and princesses and happily ever afters. But Disney has ventured into making television series for years now via Disney Channel. One particular and updated known character that rose to fame is Hannah Montana played by Miley Cyrus. But now that Miley, who is targeting the adult audience now, Disney Channel has found a new girl to fit in the shoe, her name is Bella Thorne.
Bella, who said she is dyslexic, will portray CeCe Jones character from the fictional program called “Shake It Up Chicago” will deal with dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
“She tries her best to stay in school, to stay on the show. Sometimes it’s really challenging. Sometimes she handles it kind of rough.”
It's appreciating to know that a company like Disney gives importance to those who have learning disabilities. By creating a television show that tackles such disorder gives other people the chance to understand it.
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New Disney Channel star to tackle dyslexia and Learning difficulties
When a child performs poorly in school, it's entirely possible that the problem is with their own memory.
Teaching for some is a profession but for some it is their passion. It is not easy to impart the lessons the teachers want to give to their students specially to those who have learning disabilities. But the teachers must also remember that the knowledge they want to give the children is not that easy for them as well.
The dyslexia simulation exercises provided by Southeastern Louisiana University aims to do this assist both the students and teachers.
“The role of an insightful teacher in working with a child with dyslexia is critical, and their perceptions play an important role in learning,” explained Elizabeth Wadlington, professor of teaching and learning in the College of Education and Human Development. She coordinates dyslexia simulation exercises for students at Southeastern every semester."
“Dyslexia causes difficulty in language processing,” she added. “The kids may be bright and intelligent and can see and hear just as well as everyone else, but they have a problem processing the information in their brains.”
Southeastern Louisiana University has taken the step to further help dissolve the barriers of dyslexia. Institution like this should be applauded for thinking of ways to help the education system better.
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Dyslexia: Simulation Exercises Prepare Teachers
Studying is not always a pleasant thing to do. I know because I've been there. There are times that I do not want to study but I need to and this is the dilemma that most students are experiencing. Thanks to those who thought of ways to make studying easy. Mind mapping is one of them.
From Wikipedia
"A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing."
Mind maps assists you in generating a visual representation of linked ideas without losing your purpose. Mind maps enables you to remember the key facts and the important information you need.
"But be warned. Mind maps aren’t a perfect study tool: “A disadvantage of mind mapping is that the types of links being made are limited to simple associations. Absence of clear links between ideas is a constraint.” (
There are more ways on how you can make studying easy and enjoyable. It's your decision which you would like to use and which best suites you.
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Intro to Mind mapping to help study
What could be more fascinating to a child than having an astronaut for a teacher. The astronauts will assist the children to learn the alphabet and vocabulary through educational demonstrations.
"NASA collaborated with Sesame Workshop, including the popular children’s television programs, "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company," to create science, technology, engineering and math-related education resources, or STEM, for children ages 2-5."
According to Matthew Keil of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the space station environment gives a different classroom to educate young children by showing them what the words represent.
"Sesame Workshop approached the NASA Teaching from Space Office for assistance in implementing more science and math curriculum into their programming by using the unique educational environment of the space station, NASA centers and facilities and the unique people who work at NASA."
"I am an educator who is very interested in making connections between curriculum and everyday life experiences that students encounter," said Keil.
It is so reassuring that there are organizations like this who are willling to help make education fun especially to those experiencing difficulty in learning.
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Raising your children is not easy. More often than not, you tend to shout at them when the overwhelming feeling has set in. Here are a few techniques that will help change your children's behavior:
1. “Whisper Technique“-We learn at an early age that anything that is being whispered MUST be something secretive worth listening to. Therefore, your child is more apt to pay attention to a whisper rather than to shouting, AGAIN. Whispering sets a calm atmoshpere than leads to a peaceful home environment.
2. “Chore Charts” – Chore charts can really help by posting it in a prominent area where everyone will see it every day. Just make sure to evenly divide the tasks that needs to be done.
"It's also important to rotate the less desirable jobs, so that no one “always gets stuck with the worst job”"
3. Token Economy System-If behavioural issues are a major problem for certain children, then you may create a weekly or monthly calendar or chart that shows how behaviours are progressing through the week.
"Make a list of the behaviours that can gain positive points and the behaviours that would accrue negative points. Make certain the points are weighted appropriately."
These are just a few techniques that might help both you and your child to have a positive relationship.
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Parenting Techniques - Stop shouting!