Welcome to Surviving Learning Disabilities Successfully. We are a mother (Nancy) and daughter (Danielle) who have successfully survived a very dismal learning disability diagnosis. We have written a book about our journey through the educational system and ultimate triumph over the experts opinions. We are devoted to offering hope and inspiration to parents, teachers, and children who are traveling this most difficult learning disability path.
Surviving Learning Disabilities is about information, belief, planning and execution. It is a marathon, but our experiences prove that it is possible to get through the finish line tape (whatever your goal) having achieved your best result.
Surviving Learning Disabilities Successfully
Published August, 2007
Our book is now available. You can order online at www.barnesandnoble.com
and at www.amazon.com.
National Center for Learning Disabilities:
People ask us how we managed before the enormous amount of information was available on the internet. Good question. But we are also asked how dowe know what to believebecause of the enormous amount of information on the internet. Good question. The internet contains a lot of data, web sites and opinions. We have a central touch point for important information, resources, perspective and communication...the National Center for Learning Disabilities. We encourage you to visit their site. The work they do is so important and they count on membership to support their great work. When you become a member you will receive many benefits including the satisfaction of supporting ongoing efforts to provide invaluable resources to parents, children and professionals. You will also receive a copy of our book. We encourage you to become a member. Perhaps a grandparent or other family member could give you and your child a membership for your birthday or as a holiday gift. Supporting an outstanding organization like the National Center for Learning Disabilities is giving support to a community of people who share the commitment to the challenges we face. The times may have changed as we have the lightening speed of the internet now but the National Center for Learning Disabilties has been our resource from the beginning. We hope you will make NCLD your center. www.ncld.org/donate.
NCLD Parent Talk March 4, 2008, Transcripts available at:
Helping Your Child With LD Find Success: How to Stay Energized and Engaged
As parents managing learning disabilities we may feel we are traveling an unfamiliar route on our way to an uncertain destination. How do we garner the personal resources to sustain us for the short and the long run?
We have managed Danielle’s learning disabilities for eighteen years. Having arrived at our destination, her college graduation, we decided to write a book about our successful journey. We did not know what the trip would be like, we didn’t have a roadmap and we had only a vague idea of our destination. But looking back we identified some valuable lessons that may help to support the journey for others. In our book, Surviving Learning Disabilities Successfully, instead of chapters we have sixteen rules which we found to be keys to our successful journey. Two significant keys for successfully managing the many challenges of learning disabilities are staying engaged in the process and energized for the daily struggles.
Being engaged and energized for the marathon we face is a tall order. It would help if we could see far enough down the road to know what we are working for and how it will all turn out. It would be easier to rally repeatedly if we knew how much will be required and for how long. But, the truth is we don’t know what the future holds. We have to get through today. As author Soren Kierkegaard wrote, “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”