Find smart academic advice for helping kids in every grade and subject.
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School and LearningLearning Styles
Gifted individuals may exhibit supersensitivity in the physical, sensual, imaginational, intellectual, and emotional arenas.
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School and LearningSchool Performance
Underachievement can have many origins, but there are strategies that help to reverse it.
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School and LearningSchool Performance
A variety of tests may be given to determine a child's giftedness. Assessors sometimes try to test the limits of a child's knowledge.
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School and LearningLearning Styles
You can't find a list because specific modifications are not in the law.
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School and LearningLearning Styles
IDEA and Section 504 have a similar purpose -- to protect disabled persons from discrimination -- but they differ in many respects.
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School and LearningHigh School
At age 17, it may be easiest for a teen to go to the nearest community college or alternative high school that offers a GED program.
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School and LearningLearning Styles
If a three-and-a-half-year-old has trouble remembering his letters and numbers, does it indicate dyslexia?
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School and LearningReading
It's very hard to be motivated to read if reading is hard for you.
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School and LearningSchool Performance
Ask a school counselor to observe your child's classroom behavior when he has trouble completing seatwork.
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School and LearningStudy Skills
All children, especially seventh-graders, have to be taught study skills and organization skills.
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School and LearningParental Involvement
The more responsibility parents take for making sure homework gets completed, the more irresponsible their children will become.
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School and LearningKindergarten
What should you do if you think your child's kindergarten class is too challenging?
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School and LearningParental Involvement
In most cases, parents cannot request a child's teacher. Learn other ways that you can ensure your child has a good school year.
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School and LearningHigh School
Find advice on how to help a child with LD prepare for the GED.
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School and LearningReading
First grade is when children traditionally learn how to read; a child does not need to enter the grade already reading.
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School and LearningKindergarten
Repeating a grade at this age can sometimes be beneficial.
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School and LearningReading
As a basic foundation for learning to read and write, kids need strong speaking and listening skills.
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School and LearningYour Child's School
Although a definition of giftedness has existed since the early 1970s, mandates for services and funding for programs have been slow in coming.
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