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Warning Signs for Teens With Learning Disabilities
Learning disabilities affect the brain's capability to analyze and process information. If your teen is exhibiting the signs of a learning disability, have his doctor check him for hearing or vision troubles to make sure the problem is not physical. If these sensory skills are intact, your teenager most likely is struggling with a learning disability. While this makes it more difficult for your teenager to learn, most schools are willing to adapt to your child's learning disability. There are a few warnings signs to be wary of in regards to learning disabilities in teens.
Students identified as troubled or troubling tend to flourish in alte ative learning environments
Students identified as troubled or troubling tend to flourish in alte ative learning environments where they believe that their teachers, staff, and administrators care about and respect them, value their opinion, establish fair rules that they support, are flexible in trying to solve problems, and take a nonauthoritarian approach to teaching. 1.Interactions between students and the staff are non-authoritarian in nature. Positive, trusting, and caring relationships exist between staff, and between students and staff.
***Six Needs of Every Successful Relationship
Although most of us desire a healthy relationship it’s surprising how many of us don’t really understand what makes love survive long term. Most of us are bombarded with images of love and sex in magazines, TV adverts, and on the radio but often they idealise, romanticise or trivialise love. So ...
***A Thought Provoking Story!
The pioneering biologist Bruce Lipton found that the cells in your body are always in one or two modes: protection or growth. Basically, in fear–mode or in love-mode. Whenever we feel threatened or judged we immediately go into fear –mode and close down, defend and shut ourselves ...
***Teenage Mood Swings .....are they normal?
Perhaps you’ve heard from 'You don't understand me?' to 'Why can't you just stop going on at me and leave me alone!' all before and are wondering if it’s normal. Well, to reassure you …. it is but your teenager's mood swings can affect the whole family and they can be a source ...
***Avoid Labels And Giving Your Teenager A Bad Name
'Keep on telling me what I am, and that's what I'll become’. Labels are so easy to give and so hard to undo. So be careful how you describe your children to their faces, to your friends and listen to what other family members say about each other and be mindful of accepting what you hear ...
***The Amazing Power Of Visualising
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions" Albert Einstein Nobel Prize Winner for Physics When I discovered the amazing power of visualisation, or the act of creating compelling and vivid pictures in my imagination of how I would like things ...
***The Dance of Intimacy
The Dance of Intimacy This week will be all about Valentine’s Day and can be a time of great romance or great pain. Many people put their children first and of course while this is necessary and honourable is it at the expense of your own relationship? I remember a great friend of my Mum and ...
***How to handle anger positively with your teenage kids.
Everyone gets angry with their kids at some time or another - it’s normal - it’s healthy - it’s a fact of life. Kids know just what buttons to push and they push them! I think as a parent and as a professional parent coach, it helps to accept that anger is an honest emotion, ...
***Moving To Secondary School Easily
Children are about to move onto secondary schools. Perhaps your child is one of them. This is a time of great change for a child and for the family as a whole as this transition is a time of growth, learning and independence. Children naturally have mixed feelings about this change. "I was ...
***Minerals For The Mind And Food For Thought
“Don’t wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom.” Jim Rohn, an American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker Rude and greedy behaviour among adults is contributing to the ...
***Talking To Your Teenager about Drugs
"So what do we do? Anything - something. So long as we don't just sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late." Lee Iacocca Former Chairman of Chrysler Corporation Communication is ...