how do you deal with a child who was diagnosed with learning disability (LD)?

Question

about short attention span for 11 year old

Answer 1

You love them!!! You read books and search the internet for information about their specific learning disability. You talk to parents of other children with learning disabilities. (Possibly attend a parent support group.) You make sure they have an IEP at school. You attend the IEP meetings and have the information and the confidence to ask for the services your child needs. You become your child's advocate and you never give up on them even when you are ready to pull your hair out. At home you give them a little extra time and assistance with homework or chores. Give an assignment, then remind them, remind them, and then remind them again. Find out what works for you at home then share these things with your child's teachers. Work with the school system as much as possible. Be calm, firm, persistant and respectful with requests. Take your child to the doctor. Have an open mind about the doctor's suggestions. Be patient and don't dwell on your child's disability.Try to look for the positives, and help your child find their talents.

Answer 2

Short attention span is one of those things people can train to overcome. The big thing is allowing the child to have a quiet place with no distractions, and a subject in which the child has already expressed an interest.

It is ironic that a short attention span can be considered a learning disability, when the kids who are so diagnosed are often, if not usually, brighter than average. Seems the "diagnosis" should be on the school, not the child: BOOOORING!!!!!

But a child who is intelligent, who wants to learn, needs to learn good analytic skills, and needs to love to read. Public schools are not good with either project. Is it possible you could home-school him? In the alternative, could you find a decent private school, perhaps one with Montessori orientation, where developing good learning skills is basic to the structure of the school.

Answer 3

You "deal" with the situation in the same way as a child with a longer attention span. You just be patient with the child. Give him/her breaks. The child should have an IEP so follow the IEP allowing consideration for this learning disability. This is still a child who still has the right to be fairly treated. Keep the child involved and interested in order to keep his/her attention.

Answer 4

Our scholars are placed via an entire battery of tests, all given in a one-to-one difficulty the place you could basically see if the newborn is easily attempting or no longer. If something, I see youngsters who omit studying incapacity by skill of two or 3 factors, which skill they carry out like different LD youngsters yet their numbers are in user-friendly terms some factors too severe to qualify. which skill they gained't receive centers, so as that they bypass directly to warfare.that's the two as unhappy as those different circumstances the place youngsters are labled LD while possibly they are depressed or had a bad day. sure, melancholy can appear like many different problems in youngsters. Now upload/ADHD i ought to truly argue approximately. The tests given for that have various room for errors watching the evaluator. I even have had youngsters who have been bouncing off the partitions and been advised they weren't and youngsters who have been quiet as a mouse and advised they have been.

Answer 5

Patience!

Lots of kisses and hugs, love.

Answer 6

iT'S VERY DIFFICULT, BTU YOU HAVE TO ALWAYS STAY CALM AND POSITIVE. PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE ADN WITHOUT IT THERE'S NOT A LOT OF HOPE.

Answer 7

patience, understanding and empathy.