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Monday, December 1, 2014

Strategies When Schools Refuse to Classify Students with Disabilities

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The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)  is a special education law that safeguards that public schools attend to the educational...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Novelist Sally Gardner's Poem for Dyslexics Everywhere

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The brilliant  Sally Gardner is an award-winning British children's novelist. She's written Coriander , Maggot Moon , I,   The S...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

5 Steps to Setting Limits with Your Children

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In my last few posts, I’ve been sharing some of the skills involved in filial therapy , including structuring, empathic listening, a...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Frustration is FRUSTRATING! Simple ideas to combat frustration.

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It’s hard to know what to say or do  when someone is frustrated! This emotion gets in the way of progress in school, social en...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

Children: To Hold on or Let Go?

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My mother once told me, when I was in my thirties I might mention, that she found it far harder to parent grown children than younger o...
Friday, October 31, 2014

How to Help Students Plan, Organize and Manage Time

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Simple tasks such as using an agenda or turning in an assignment seems obvious to many, but for some young learners these tasks can be ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Using Imaginary Play with Your Child

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Recently I’ve been sharing some of the skills involved in filial therapy , including structuring and empathic listening . Today ...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Parental Leadership: Routines

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How is your hectic fall schedule? We all have been back at it for about a month now. Many of you will say it is going well but yo...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Setting Limits for Cell Phone Use

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Sometimes the best advice comes from another parent... One of the biggest issues that parents in my office report confronting is h...