Children with learning disabilities lack the language,motor, and memory skills to easily negotiate everyday life, and can quickly sink into a defeatist frame of mind. This toolkit of values and strategies is designed to counteract the failure-focused attitudes commonly experienced by children with learning disabilities.
Review Date: September 12, 2012
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Evaluation is a process that helps parents and schools determine whether a child has a disability. Under IDEA a “child with a disability” is one who qualifies for special education and related services. Read more about the evaluation process and what it measures.
Review Date: November 01, 2011
Alliance National Parent Technical Assistance Center
Supporting your child with LD will impact your wallet. Your child may need a tutor for extra academic support or a counselor to help build some social skills, or you and your teen may be looking ahead to college. Take heart: resources are available.
Review Date: December 20, 2012
National Center for Learning Disabilities
CHADD chapters provide support groups and other services in more than 225 communities across the country and offer a variety of activities that can truly make a difference in the lives of individuals and families affected by Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD).
Review Date: March 04, 2013
Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Kids with delayed skills or other disabilities might be eligible for special services that provide individualized education programs in public schools, free of charge to families. Learn about these services.
Review Date: October 04, 2012
The Nemours Foundation
This article is about the learning disability called dyslexia and how to cope with being dyslexic.
Review Date: March 04, 2013
The Nemours Foundation
This fact sheet outlines three key steps to finding out if you have a learning disability. The evaluation should provide direction for employment, education and daily living, and should make specific recommendations for learning strategies that may be the most helpful to you.
Review Date: April 21, 2011
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Search for learning disability services in your area. Listings are divided into testing, tutoring, private schools for students with learning disabilities, legal rights/advocacy and more.
Review Date: November 19, 2012
National Center for Learning Disabilities
This site provides information on understanding learning disabilities, negotiating the special education process and helping your child and yourself.
Review Date: August 02, 2012
Learning Disabilities Association of America
Many of NICHCY’s visitors are looking to connect with organizations specializing in a particular disability or topic. Here, you can connect with many national disability organizations and information resource centers.
Review Date: December 04, 2012
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Children with learning disability grow into adults with LD. Find out how you can teach them practical “daily living” skills. These skills will give them confidence about their future independent adult life.
Review Date: April 21, 2011
National Center for Learning Disabilities
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.
Review Date: February 23, 2011
U.S. Department of Education
A learning disability (LD) is a neurological disorder that affects the brain's ability to receive, process, store and respond to information. This fact sheet provides an introduction to LDs in general and how they affect people at different ages.
Review Date: April 21, 2011
National Center for Learning Disabilities
