From the article: Preparing the School for Your Child with Learning Disabilities
What information do you give to your child's teachers about learning disabilities? Share it with your fellow readers, and find some new resources from other families. Share Your Strategies
My child is dyslyxic
- I briefed the school principle and his teachers in the beginning of the school year about his problems and shared strategies to help him to prove his strengths. Peer group behaiour comparision, criticism on the part of teacher were explained cleary to make sure that he sohold not suffer emotionally.
- —Guest robuna
Multiple Learning Disabilities
- My son has an IEP, assistive tech and a paraprofessional. I schedule a conference within the first week of school with all of his teachers, the paraprofessional and my son. we discuss the IEP, behavior expectations, contact information, rules of the class, and any other issue regarding him in each individual class. It provides my son with the opportunity to ask questions in a comfortable setting, express what his strengths and weaknesses are and what makes him feel comfortable. I found out that the teachers are given all of the students IEPs at one time and they do not know what IEP goes with what student. Most teachers do not read the IEP. I find that taking the time to meet with the teachers with my son and discussing his needs and the teacher expectations provides a much better enviroment for my son.
- —nmwillia
make a video
- My son is on the autistic spectrum and did not speak much in school (until recently). His teachers often assume at first that he is of very low ability. A few years ago, I actually made a video tape to bring to school to show his teachers how verbal he could be. I taped him singing a song he learned at school- although he never sang at school. I just wanted the teachers to know what he could do.The teachers also are happy to see that he is listening to them. Once they know, somehow, he senses it and becomes more involved in the class. Now in second grade he sometimes writes notes to his teacher when he has ideas he does not feel comfortable sharing verbally.
- —Guest dianelinder
Visual impairment
- As a mother with a child with visual impairment, I just simply explained to the teacher all of her streghths. I had to go to school on several occasions to make sure that she stayed on task, but that was only at the begininng of school. Now she is outdoing her classmates academically. The teachers seems to be very amazed.
- —Guest mrs.johnnygriffin
