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1. Understanding Learning Disabilities
   
2. ADHD and Co-existing Conditions
   
3. Learning and Skills Development
   
   • Elementary
     
   • Secondary
     
   • Post-Secondary
     
4. Working with Parents
   
5. Professional Practice
   
6. Assessment
   
7. First Nations (Learning from a native perspective)

Understanding Learning Disabilities

• What are Some Common Signs of Learning Disabilities?

• Understanding Processing Deficits
  
• Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD): Diagnosis offers new hope
  
• Fact Sheet on Dyslexia - Learning Disabilities Association of America
  
• Nonverbal Learning Disabilities - Patti Brace
  
• Demystifying the Definitions (PDF)- Dr. A. Lynn Beal
  
• Early Identification of LD: The Pediatrician's Role- Tamarah Kagan-Kushnir and Jay Rosenfield
  
• What's in a Label? - Carol Yaworski

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Understanding ADHD & Co-existing Conditions

• A New Understanding of Attention Deficit Disorder by Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D. (Nov_04)
  
• Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
  
• Asperger Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities - Kennedy, Roberts and Rosenfield
  
• Considering Comorbidity (an LD definition support document) - Dr. Glen DiPasquale

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Learning Skills and Development

• Reading Rockets a resource for Reading Disabilities
  
• Reading Disabilities: Why Do Some Children Have Difficulty Learning to Read? What Can Be Done About It? -- by G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D.
  
• Strategy Instruction For Increasing Reading Comprehension
  
  
• Learning Disabilities in Mathematics - by: C. Christina Wright, Ph.D
  
• Helping Students Who Struggle to Write - by: Regina G. Richards, M.A.

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Elementary

• Common Signs of Dyslexia: K - 4th Grade Students
  

Related Web links

• Predicting and Preventing Early School Failure: Classroom Activities for the Preschool Child
  
• Prédire et prévenir l'échec au début du cheminement scolaire - activités en salle de classe  à l'intention des élèves du jardin d'enfants
  
• Promoting Reading Success: Phonological Awareness Activities for the Kindergarten Child
  
• Pour apprendre à bien lire : activités de sensibilisation phonologique à l'intention des élèves du jardin d'enfants
  
• Promoting Skilled Handwriting: The Kindergarten Path to Meaningful Written Communication
  
• Pour développer des habiletés en écriture - Pistes pour une communication écrite à l'intention des élèves du jardin d'enfants

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Secondary

• Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities in Reading : Developing Reading Comprehension (Nov_04)
  
• Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities in Reading : Developing Reading Fluency (Nov_04)
  
• Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities in Reading : Vocabulary Development (Nov_04)
  
• Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities in Reading : Developing Word Identification Skills (Nov_04)
  
• Secondary Level Students with Learning Disabilities: No Time to Waste
  
• Transition and Self-Advocacy
  
• Reading Instruction for Older Students -- By Pamela Owen Brucker and Robert Piazza
  
• Transition Planning: Reintegration of Amethyst Students to Community Schools - By Clive Hodder
  
• Transition Planning Resource Guide for Students With Learning Disabilities (PDF)

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Post-Secondary

• 30 Things We Know For Sure About Adult Learning By Ron and Susan Zemke
  Innovation Abstracts Vol VI, No 8, March 9, 1984
  

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Professional Practice

• Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education By Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson
  
  
• The Role of Speech Language Pathologists in Programming for Children "at risk" fro Reading Failure -- OAFCCD May 2003
  
• The Role of the Occupational Therapist in Schools
  
• Square Pegs Round Holes - by Dr. Maggie Mamen
  
  
• Introducing Enhanced Services for Students with Learning Disabilities in Ontario's Colleges and Universities
  
• Learning Disability Interventions: Making Sense of the Evidence
  
• Focus on Reflection - by Dr. S. M. Elliott
  
• Learning Disabilities and Behavioural/Emotional Problems - Peter Chaban
  
• Assistive and Adaptive Technology: Helping Students Determine Their Needs on Their Own Terms - Maureen Haig and Carren Tatton
  
• Written Expressive Difficulties in Children: Suggestions for Teachers - Maggie Mamen
  
• Technology Supports for Students with Learning Disabilities - John Lubert

Related Web links

• TeachingLD http://www.teachingld.org/
  
• AskEric Lesson Planning Site http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/Search
  
• Lesson Plans and Teqaching Strategies site http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
  

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Working With Parents

• Build a Positive Parent-Teacher Relationship - by Lynn Ziraldo
  

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Assessment

• Assessment of Learning Disabilities - by Dr. Norman Brodie, Ph.D. Chartered Psychologist
  
• Assessment During Early Childhood Years - Doris Johnson

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First Nation Resources

• Viewpoint: Learning from a Native Perspective -- by Elisabeth Bigwin

• TAKING HOLD OF THE TOOLS: Post-Secondary Education for Canada's Walpole Island First nation, 1965 - 1994 -- by Edmund J. Danziger, Jr., (PDF)

• FIRST NATIONS QUALITY CHILD CARE: A National Study -- by Margo Greenwood & Perry, 2000 (PDF)

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