Some Types Of Learning Disabilities

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Learning "Disabilities"
By DeAnne Joy

Experts estimate that between 4-10% of our youth are now diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder. It can be frustrating and discouraging to deal with symptoms of ADD. Here?™s the great news: there is nothing "wrong" with your child or with you as the parent; there is nothing that needs to be ?œfixed?? You and your child have ALL of the resources within you to experience success in school, at home and in the world. If your child is not succeeding in school or at home, it simply means that she doesn't have effective tools for doing so. Once we teach her world-class skills for succeeding at home and in school, she will no doubt be successful.

A diagnosis can be helpful in giving us a framework for understanding what the reason is behind the challenging behaviors or the poor school performance. You can understand the behavior better when you understand where it is coming from. When you understand that it?™s not a matter of whether or not your child is trying hard enough, rather that it is simply a matter of her not having the tools to be successful in learning, then you can respond differently to it. ADD, Dyslexia and other learning ?œdifferences??are a way of describing how a person?™s brain is wired or the way in which they process information. It doesn?™t mean that they don't process or learn information; it simply means that they do it better using certain strategies or processes than with others, as we all do.