Learning Disabilities Site
	Celestine A. Jones BellaOnline's Learning Disabilities Editor

Building Reading Skills
Students with learning disabilities often experience problems with reading. Reading strategies and accommodations can be used to improve decoding skills, increase reading retention and build vocabulary. Simple reading strategies can make reading meaningful and fun.

Learning Effects of the Diet
An unhealthy diet can have a drastic effect on a child’s ability to learn. A diet consisting of high amounts of sugars and carbohydrates and not enough fruits and vegetables can actually starve the brain.

Maintaining Positive Behavior
Children with learning disabilities often portray behavior challenges. Negative behaviors can be changed. Simple strategies can be used to develop and maintain a positive behavior.

Making Transitions to College
Transition from high school to college takes careful planning. College admissions requirements need to be considered while in high school, along with ways to pay for college.

Materialism Issues
The acquisition of basic material goods is necessary to the degree that we need to support our own body and our dependents with food, clothing, and shelter.

Overcoming Procrastination
Each New Year begins with new resolutions for many people. Once the newness of the year proceeds, many of us fall back into the old and familiar way of doing things. The resolutions spoken are lost to procrastination. The spirit of procrastination can be overcome with a little work.

Shopping Trips Can Be Educational
For kids with challenges, make a shopping trip a chance to practice language and math skills.

Signs of Learning Challenges
All children learn at different rates. Some children are never able to catch up with same age peers. This may result in a learning disability for some children. Learn common symptoms.

Signs of Learning Challenges
All children learn at different rates. Some children are never able to catch up with same age peers. This may result in a learning disability for some children. Learn common symptoms.

Smoking and Learning Disabilities
Smoking has a direct affect on children with learning disabilities. Learn the risks and ways to prevent.

Students Have Rights
Students with learning disabilities have rights. The parent is the best advocate for children with learning disabilities. Learn the differences between Section 504 and IDEA.

Students Have Rights
Students with learning disabilities have rights. The parent is the best advocate for children with learning disabilities. Learn the differences between Section 504 and IDEA.

The Meaning of Learning Disability
Learning disabilities are often confused with other disorders, such as intellectual disorder, behavioral disorders, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Specific Learning Disabilities are very different.

True Meaning of Success
Children with disabilities can succeed in life. The true meaning of success varies from one person to the next. The first step to success is to understanding yourself.

True Meaning of Success
Children with disabilities can succeed in life. The true meaning of success varies from one person to the next. The first step to success is to understanding yourself.

Utilizing Behavior Intervention in the Schools
The struggles of learning disabilities often lead to student misbehavior. Words such as insubordination, disruption, disrespect, or refusal to do work are school rule violations that are often common on a daily basis. Chronic misbehavior only leads to frustration.

Utilizing Behavior Intervention in the Schools
The struggles of learning disabilities often lead to student misbehavior. Words such as insubordination, disruption, disrespect, or refusal to do work are school rule violations that are often common on a daily basis. Chronic misbehavior only leads to frustration.