Preparing for your first IEP can be an overwhelming proposition. The very fact that your child is struggling at school is enough to worry any parent. But uncovering that your child might need a specialized Individualized Education Program (IEP) terrorizes even the toughest parents. Parents regularly get mixed emotions before an IEP and depending on [...]
15 million school age children in the US have learning problems that public and private schools can’t solve. There are 72,000 special education students in LAUSD, alone. Every day these students sit unhappily in class, losing hope of ever realizing their dreams. Students are living in pain and shame. They are not learning to be [...]
The history of dyslexia is actually longer than most people might think—nearly 150 years. To further put that into perspective, autism was only identified and treated as a learning disability 100 years ago—and the signs of autism are more prominent. The biggest challenge researchers have had to overcome over the last century and a half [...]
The difficulties that a family must face when a member starts to age can be difficult and concerning. The difficulties that an aging adult with learning disabilities face can be even more extreme. They have a specific set of issues that must be addressed. When you select Healthcare Learning Disabilities Care Home you can have [...]
Caring for an adult with learning disabilities can be difficult at the best of times. Ideally such people should be able to stay with their families but many families simply don’t have the time, money or resources to care for adults with learning disabilities. The best alternative living arrangement for adults with learning disabilities is [...]
Children are often bullied and teased during their school years. For children with learning disabilities this teasing can be relentless and make them terrified to go to school each day. Being in special education classes carry with it a certain stigma, causing other students to ridicule and judge the students in these classes. Often times, [...]
Famous People With Autism We tend to think of famous or successful people as having it easy in life, or they somehow got lucky. We admire them for what they have or for what they have accomplished and sometimes wish we were just like them. The truth, however, is often very different from what we [...]
