How can teachers foster self-esteem in children?
Teachers play an important role in nurturing a student's sense of dignity and self-worth.
Helping teens develop self-determination: an excerpt from Guiding Teens with Learning Disabilities
In an excerpt from Guiding Teens with LD, author Arlyn Roffman, Ph.D. explains how to help your teen develop self-determination.
How do Asian students get to the top of the class?
Why do many Asian students excel? The secret is parenting, say the authors of the provocative book Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers 鈥� and How You Can Too.
Learn why kids with ADHD can seem spaced out one minute but hyperfocused the next
Kids with ADHD can seem spaced out one minute but hyperfocused the next. Learn why this occurs 鈥� and how trouble with self-control is at the heart of this paradox.
Research trends: social information processing and emotional understanding in children with LD
An expert reviews new research on the social interactions of kids with learning disabilities.
Research trends: risk and resilience in people with learning disabilities
Read what research tells us about protective factors that help kids with learning disabilities succeed despite their challenges.
10 tips for helping a discouraged child
Parents of kids with learning disabilities or ADHD share their strategies for helping a child make a fresh start.
It worked: getting help to deal with a child's aggression
What felt like a drastic measure to these weary parents, turned out to be just the right approach.
It worked: from cartwheels to college 鈥� a lesson in perseverance
A mom steps back and lets a caring gymnastics coach teach her daughter that persistence pays off.
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