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
Seamlessly Transitioning to Summer
For children with LDs and/or ADHD, structure and routine can be key. So how can you help your child successfully transition from the school year, with all of its structure, to the summer, where, for many, anything goes? Understood.org hosted
Keeping Records
Why is keeping records important? Even prior to receiving an official diagnosis of a learning disability (LD), you may be starting to find that there are many different issues and members of your school team to deal with in regards
LDMH: A Handbook on Learning Disabilities and Mental Health
The Integra Program is a program of the Child Development Institute (CDI). It is the only accredited children's mental health agency in Canada to provide mental health services exclusively to children and youth whose mental health issues are complicated by