Archive for August, 2011
Having a Successful Career and a Learning Disability
Success, Career, and Learning Disabilities in one sentence almost seems WRONG!
Having a “learning disability” is thought to ruin your child’s changes for being successful in life.
Conceiving the idea of a child growing up and becoming successful with a learning disability seems to be a major source of anxiety for parents. The emotional attachment that parents have tied to their child’s future is OVER THE TOP from the beginning. If a challenging future is looking certain for your child this article will clear up some ideas.
How to approach the future with your child whom has a learning disability:
1. LOVE THEM!
2. LIVE IN THE MOMENT with THEM!
3. DO NOT DRAW FINAL CONCLUSION BEFORE IT IS NECESSARY!
A study was recently published about the number one feeling parents have towards “parenting.” Can you guess what that feeling is?
ANXIETY! This is study was for ALL PARENTS! Your feelings are not unique to you. I do not know about you, I do NOT like ANXIETY!
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Will Neurofeedback Help People With Learning Disabilities?
The moment a child with learning disabilities enters the classroom, he or she is confronted with numerous challenges. Children with dyslexia and other disabilities can be made to feel stupid, in spite of the fact that they may work much harder than the rest of their classmates just to keep up. For these children, frustration and discouragement are a daily part of life.
For many years, no one really knew how to deal with learning disabilities like dyslexia because experts were unable to pinpoint its cause. Most educators simply ended up trying different methods of teaching, and some would give up and write these children off as slow or unworthy of the extra attention, or conclude that they weren’t trying hard enough. Now, however, there may be a helpful tool for children with learning disabilities – a therapy known as neurofeedback.
Neurofeedback therapy uses information about the brain’s electrical energy, or brain waves, to literally change the way the brain works. Many children with learning disabilities are simply stuck, so to speak, in the wrong brain wavelength patterns. But through neurofeedback, their brains might be able to be taught to operate on an entirely new level. In fact, a 1985 study found that children with learning disorders who were treated with neurofeedback therapy showed an average IQ increase of nineteen points.
Relatively few full-scale studies on neurofeedback and learning disorders have been conducted, but in several case studies, children have shown remarkable improvement after neurofeedback therapy. An added benefit of neurofeedback treatment is that, unlike many other forms of therapy, it can actually be fun for children, and it can also be quite empowering.
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Effectively Coping With the Learning Disabilities
A parent dreams of bringing up their child in the best possible way and make him/her competent in the world. Not everyone’s dream comes true, with a few kids suffering from learning disorders. Learning disorders affect the way in which a person understands, remembers and responds to new information. Kids with learning disorders have problems, listening or paying attention, speaking and reading or writing.
It comes as a shock to the parents who find out that their child has a learning disability. Coping with a learning disorder can be challenging. This does not mean that a child will not be able to attend school, graduate from college or find a suitable job later in life. With the right kind of support, children with learning disabilities can become successful in life, just like any other child.
To cope up with the learning disability, one must be well equipped with the information on special education laws, programs, teaching resources for home and school. The next task is that of finding a school that will work with you to help your child. It is not going to be single effort but a joint effort of the parent, teacher and the school.
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