Living with LDs
LD@home knows that Living with LDs can have it’s challenges, but here you’ll find support from experts and our team, as well as inspirational stories to help guide you on your journey.
Expert Advice
Our Expert Advice page is designed to help you interact with our experts and staff around the issues affecting those living with LDs. Your question can be about a parenting challenge at home, a challenge at school or even planning for further education. Our experts include educators working in the classroom and researchers investigating the latest studies in the area. As well, LDAO staff will use the 50 plus years of our experience to guide you.
With every answer, we encourage you to use it as a part of your process, which may also include using other sources from our partners, conducting further research and having conversations with your child and their teachers to formulate a specific course of action. Every child is different, so sometimes trial and error is a key part of finding what works for you.
Articles
Parent Reading Guide: What parents need to know about reading skills and struggling readers
Reading instruction is undergoing changes in Ontario. To help you start making the change to evidence-based literacy instruction, LD@school created the Parent Reading Guide: What parents need to know about reading skills and struggling readers. This guide was intended
Bringing Mindfulness to Learning at Home
Adapted from the article, Mindfulness for Social and Emotional Competence: A Review of the Research by Jillian Haydicky, Ph.D., & Judith Wiener, Ph.D. Does your child ever have a big emotional reaction to something that seems minor, like completing
Reading for Science at Home
Adapted from the article All Students can Read to Learn Science! by Tiffany L. Gallagher, Ph.D. and Xavier Fazio, Ed.D., Brock University The acquisition of language skills is essential to support ‘reading to learn’ about information in subjects such