Surviving Learning Disabilities Successfully

16 Rules for Managing a Child's Learning Disabilities

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Understanding, Empathy and Inspiration

Learning Disabilities...a label, a diagnosis, an unknown. Now that you have been told your child has Learning Disabilities what do you do with the information? There are experts who will offer their opinions about what the learning disabilities are, what the learning potential is and maybe even what the future holds for your child. Often these opinions offer gloom along with educational complexities that overwhelm us. Hold on! Learning disabilities can certainly be diagnosed, but how they will affect an individual and what can be done to manage them is often best determined on a day by day, person by person basis by a team including, the person affected, their parent(s), and experts to be assembled.

Search for strategies and support to manage the hand you have been dealt! We understand the frustrations, the heartache and the struggles. We also embrace the potential for success against all odds. You will need a team, a strategy, a plan and consistent implementation in order to achieve a more level playing field for your child. We are proof that you can get to know your child's unique learning needs and forge the path for positive educational progress.

Surviving Learning Disabilties

Thoughts from Nancy and Danielle

Tis the Season

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

by: Nancy E. Graves and Danielle E. Graves

Published August, 2007

Our book is now available. You can order online at www.barnesandnoble.com

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780595456376&z=y#PUB

and at www.amazon.com.

http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Learning-Disabilities-Successfully-Managing/dp/0595456375/ref=sr_1_1/102-0290962-2036967?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187645163&sr=1-1

National Center for Learning Disabilities, Parent Talk March 4, 2008, Transcript is available at:

www.ncldtalks.org

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.”