Learning Disabilities Awareness Month (October) is a time where people pay special attention to children and adults with learning disabilities. During this month, LD OnLine asks each of you to teach one person one new thing about learning disabilities. Find e-cards for teachers who have gone above and beyond to help a child with LD, book lists, inspirational stories, and lots more resources.
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Memory Strategies for Students: The Value of Strategies ...'Strategies can be used by teachers, parents, or by students themselves. Teachers using strategies will be able to vary their presentations so that they use a variety of teaching styles. Since each student learns best in his or her own preferred way, when information is presented using varied formats, the teacher increases the probability of “reaching” a larger proportion of the students in the classroom. Parents can incorporate strategies when helping with nightly homework assignments. This has an added benefit of modeling good learning and studying techniques that the student can then use independently at a later time.'...
