Learning Styles

Discover an inexpensive resource for blind and dyslexic children.

A parent asks how she should approach the school district about the proper implementation of her child's IEP.

Gifted individuals may exhibit supersensitivity in the physical, sensual, imaginational, intellectual, and emotional arenas.

You can't find a list because specific modifications are not in the law.

IDEA and Section 504 have a similar purpose -- to protect disabled persons from discrimination -- but they differ in many respects.

If a three-and-a-half-year-old has trouble remembering his letters and numbers, does it indicate dyslexia?

Before making a decision about placement for a gifted child, it's a good idea to consult a pediatric psychologist or child clinical psychologist.

Children who test as gifted early on typically continue to score in the upper ranges of intelligence tests.

Educational concerns are not always the real basis for objections to special programs.

When the school system fails a gifted child, a mentor is advisable.

An expert sorts through the ins and outs of IEPs and 504 Plans.

Make sure your young gifted child is appropriately challenged in the classroom, and not handicapped to perform at the same level as her peers.

Do you have any suggestions to help our gifted daughter feel good about being intelligent and to understand that learning might not always have a "fun" component?

Discover some excellent special-education resources for working with teens.

Find advice on what to do when your child has an IEP but has not been receiving mandated special-education services.

For the gifted group identified as having "Multiple Exceptionalities," there should be a special-education plan in place.

When there is a family history of dyslexia, a child who is experiencing difficulties in school should probably be evaluated.

Does mirror writing in a four-year-old indicate dyslexia or another type of learning/language disability?