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'Parents Make A Difference' Newsletter
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This collection of articles contains information and suggestions
for to help your child become more successful at school.
Study Habits
Homework Behavior Plan
Focus on realistic strategies, goals, and rewards that can help
get the job done.
Homework Tips for
Parents
Suggestions to make homework easier for both
parents and students.
Last Minute Tips
These last-minute, test-prep tips and
strategies will help your child relax for the big test.
Newspaper Cut and
Match
This activity requires your child to
do some independent, interpretive thinking. It also encourages creativity.
Read the Newspaper
Together
Reading the newspaper together is
great practice for big tests.
Standardized
Tests: Learn the Basics!
Answers to parents' top six questions
about tests.
Take a Walk
in a Character's Shoes
This activity requires that your child
place himself in a TV character's position.
Ten
Ways to Help Your Kids Get Organized
Use these tips to help your kids
become more organized.
Watch TV
and Find the Pattern
This critical-thinking activity
encourages your child to think about certain patterns that can be found while
watching a weekly half-hour or hour-long TV program.
Watch
TV Together
Watching television with your kids is
a great way to start preparing them for a standardized test.
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Learning Disabilities
Communication and
Coping Tips for Students with LD
Great tips for kids to use at school
and home.
Dyslexia and Your
Child
How you can help your child with dyslexia.
Five Strategies
to Support Your Child with LD
Five of the most important things
parents can do if their child has a learning disability.
Learning Disabilities and Your
Child: The Early Years
A guide to Learning Disabilities for
you and your child.
10 Quick Questions and Answers about
Learning Disabilities
Find out about learning disabilities
and how they affect your child.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD)
ADHD: An Introduction
The characteristics of ADD evident 40
years ago are still the same seen today. It is our understanding of ADD/ADHD
that has evolved.
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Professionals who diagnose ADHD use
the diagnostic criteria set forth by the American Psychiatric Association
(1994) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
ADHD: Special Education
Do kids with ADHD need special
education services?
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Behavior and Discipline
Charting:
Discipline That Works!
Have a discipline problem that needs a
fresh approach? Learn when, how, and why this technique works!
Kids and
Inappropriate Behavior
Mortified by your child's behavior?
Find out why kids "say the darndest things," and how you should react
when it happens.
Logical
Consequences: Discipline That Works!
Here's a discipline technique that
will save you time and frustration. Learn when, how, and why it works!
Talking About Limits
Has "Everyone else is doing it!"
become your preteen's battle cry? Here are the words you need to set limits you
both can live with.
Talking
with Kids About Their Day
Get the scoop on school from your
child. Here are the tips you need to get more than a one-word answer.
The Time Out: Discipline That Works!
Learn when to use this discipline
technique, how it works, and why. Even if you haven't had success with it
lately, our expert tips can make a time out, time well spent.
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Revised 8/13/08
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