How do you know if your child has a disability? This article gives the signs of a learning disability and steps you can take to most effectively support your child (With Interactive Checklist)
Try These Five Evidence-Based Strategies for Students with Dyslexia
These five evidence-based intervention strategies for students with dyslexia are helpful for any teacher or parent to learn.
Pride Reading Program Utilizes a Multi-Sensory Approach!
The Pride Reading Program uses a multi-sensory approach based on Orton Gillinham to support students with speech/language needs, dyslexia, and processing challenges.
33 Possible Accommodations & Modifications for Students with IEPs/504 Plans in Virtual Learning or Cyber School
Working in both cyber and brink & mortar settings, a school psychologist shares 28 possible accommodations and modifications for cyber school students.
How Does the Visualizing and Verbalizing Strategy Help Children with Reading Comprehension?
Visualizing and Verbalizing is a research-based strategy that helps students visualize information so they can comprehend it. Students learn to build pictures in their minds to represent text.
Research Supports These 7 Strategies to Help Your Child with Reading Fluency
Check out these research-based strategies to help your child or student with reading fluency.
Learn About the Benefits of Hands-On and Multisensory Learning for Children
Experience and research helps us understand the benefits of hands-on learning for children. Find out more with research links and concrete examples.
Research-Based Program ‘Read Naturally’ Leads to Significant Improvements in Fluency and Comprehension
Read Naturally is meant to be used as a supplement to your child’s reading curriculum. It aims to improve reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension of students in elementary school through adulthood. Research studies on Read Naturally indicate that students who progress through the program make significant gains in reading comprehension and oral reading fluency. Read Naturally uses a combination of …
Research Supports the Use of Hands-on/Multisensory Approaches to Teach Reading, Writing, and Math
Find out how multisensory and hands-on learning helps students with autism, ADHD and other disabilities in reading, writing, math, and more!
What is an IEP and How Do You Know if Your Child Needs One for School?
Intro Are you wondering if your child needs special education services or an Individualized Education Program (IEP) or how children obtain an IEP? In order to qualify for an IEP, your child needs to receive an evaluation in school (or at home if your child has not started school yet or attends homeschool or cyber school). Depending on your child’s …
Learn About 22 School-Based Accommodations & Modifications for Children with Special Needs (ADHD, Autism Spectrum, Learning Disabilities, etc.)
22 Accommodations/Modifications that are available for children with special needs in school.
Orton-Gillingham-An Instructional Approach to Teaching Students with Dyslexia
Orton-Gillingham is an instructional approach mainly intended for use with individuals who have difficulty with reading, spelling, and writing associated with dyslexia. Dyslexia makes it difficult for a person to connect sounds to letters and/or blend combinations of letters quickly and fluently in reading. Dyslexia can effect phonemic awareness, the ability to hear and separate the smallest sounds in a word, which can …
Is Labeling Children Good or Bad? The View of a School Psychologist
I am a school psychologist. My main job is to evaluate students to see if they are eligible for special education. In order for a child to be eligible they have to meet criteria for one of 14 disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA). If they do not meet criteria for at least one of these …
What Can You Do if Your Child is Having Persistent Problems in School? (Tips for Parents)
The contents in this article refer to public schools in the United States. If your child attends private school or school outside of the United States, speak to your child’s school to find out if their policies for addressing the matters discussed in this article are the same or different. When Would You Request an Evaluation by a School Psychologist? …
10 Important Tips Before Your Child’s Next IEP Meeting
What Is an IEP? If you have concerns about your child’s progress in school, you can request an evaluation from a school psychologist to determine if your child qualifies for an Individualized Education Program (IEP). Other support professionals such as a speech-language pathologist or occupational therapist (for visual-motor or sensory concerns) may be involved in the evaluation process as well. …