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1. Understanding Learning Disabilities
   
   
2. ADHD and Co-existing Disorders
   
   
3. Learning and Skills Development
   
   
4. Working with Your Child’s School
   
   
5. Making Choices for Your Child
   
   
6. Adolescents and Adult Children

Understanding Learning Disabilities

• Understanding Processing Deficits
  
  
• Tips: The View From Within -- Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disabilities -- by Margaret Amerongen, M.S.W., R.S.W.
  
  
• Handwriting: The Learning Disability, Dysgraphia

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ADHD and Co-existing Disorders

• Understanding Learning Disabilities
  
  
• Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD): Diagnosis offers new hope (Feb_06)
  
  
• A New Understanding of Attention Deficit Disorder by Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.

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Learning and Skills Development

• Principles for Learning to Read

• How Children Learn to Read -- Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities
  
  
• ReadingRockets.org Focuses on Reading Disabilities With Inventive New Project Called "Target the Problem"
  
  
• Tips for Developing Organisational Skills in Children -- Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities
  
  
• Written Expressive Difficulties in Children
  
  
• Helping Young Children with Learning Disabilities at Home
  

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Working with Your Child’s School

• The Role of Speech Language Pathologists in Programming for Children at risk for Reading Failure

• A Parent’s Guide to Special Education in Ontario (PDF)

• Understanding the IPRC Process

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Adolescents and Adult Children

• Helping Children Leave The Nest and Gaining a Better Adult relationship
  
  
• Advocacy for Adolescents - by Janice Bleakney and Karen Wiles
  
  
• Expectations: A Delicate Balance
  

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Making Choices for Your Child

• Tips on How to Choose a Summer Camp
  
  
• Choosing a Camp : How Do I Find the Right Camp for My Child?

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