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
What Strategies Can Parents Use to Support Students with LDs in Math?
Written by Farzad Mirza, OCT, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board As a parent who is now finding themselves charged with being their child’s teacher, it can be challenging to have to teach math concepts you may not have touched for
Using Differentiation to Support Learning at Home
Written by Martin Smit, Educational Consultant, LDAO If your child has a learning disability (LD), you may be familiar with the term differentiated instruction (DI) or noticed it written in the Individual Education Plan (IEP). This is an important concept to understand
Five Strategies for Helping Students with LDs Avoid Procrastination
Adapted from a response to “Ask the Expert” by Frédérick Dionne, Ph.D. Procrastination is the tendency to delay the start or completion of a task despite the potential negative consequences such as decreased performance and stress. Studying for an