Learning Disabilities

ADHD

Boarding school students: ADHD FAQ’s Is your child struggling with attention issues? Planning? Short-term ? Perhaps he or she has been diagnoses with Executive Function Disorder (EFD) or Attention Deficit…

April 23, 2014

How I Survived Grad School with a Learning Difference

How I survived Grad School with a Learning Difference (and overachieving perfectionitis) Although I have worked with students and their families for years on self-advocacy around learning…

November 26, 2013

Struggling Young Learners

Concerned about your student’s progress at school? Insider tips Missed Parts 1 and 2? Check them out here: part one and part two. written by, Michelle Grappo, former school psychologist…

November 1, 2013

Young Learners Struggle

Concerned about your student’s progress at school? (part 2) As a former school psychologist, here are my “insider” tips… Missed Part 1? Check it out here. Today’s post is all…

October 22, 2013

Struggling Learners

When Your Young Learner is Struggling (part one) Concerned about your student’s progress at school?? As a former school psychologist, here my “insider” tips… Today’s post is all about managing…

October 4, 2013

Is There a College for D Students?

A colleague asked me that question this morning. Seems the young man she is working with is “not working up to his potential”. I see this so often that I…

November 2, 2011

What Having Learning Disabilities and International School Attendance Means for Self-Esteem and Future Plans

Today I just finished reading a college essay written by one of my students about coping with learning differences in an international school that refuses to acknowledge or accept learning…

January 15, 2011