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	Susan Kramer BellaOnline's Learning Disabilities Editor

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Attitude Makes a Difference with Kids
Kids of all abilities can benefit from a positive slant on life.

Backyard Motor Skill Games
Your backyard can be a great place for kids to play games that develop their large motor skills.

Create an Inviting Educational Space at Home
For kids with learning disabilities a special home space can become a quiet place to concentrate and work at their own pace on school assignments.

Creating a Classroom in Your Home
If you want to send your kids to the neighborhood school during September to June, you could still use this arrangement during the summer recess.

Developing a Stable Home Life
When kids have a stable home life to go from and come home to, the challenges they have to meet out in the world are lessened and seem more manageable.

Family Roundtable Discussions with Kids
Making time to gather as a family or with family and close friends in roundtable discussion is an opportunity to listen to each other and give insight from all present.

Giving Love and Affection to Your Challenged Kids
Love and affection with all our kids is so important, and it is my opinion that an extra dose of affection is nurturing for our learning disabled and challenged kids.

Helping Kids Find New Solutions
Kids with learning disabilities may not be able to work out situations or problems in the mainstream way, but by seeking out new solutions they may find ways to learn or get the task done.

Helping Kids Get Along in the Family
Family life is more harmonious when everyone gets along with each other, learning disabilities or not.

Helping Kids with Challenges Make Friends
Friendliness leads to friendship for people of all ages and abilities.

Holiday Safety for Learning Disabled Kids
Holidays and especially Halloween is supposed to be a fun time to dress up and indulge in make-believe. It is also a day for parents to be sure their learning disabled kids are comfortable in their costumes.

Kids Learn about Playing Fairly
Kids learn about fair play watching all our interactions.

Learning Colors through Nature
The natural world has an abundance of colors and all shades, too. Think of green to begin.

Learning Disabilities and Being Supportive
At home our child with learning disabilities may need a calm listening ear, rather than a parent or other family member jumping right in to try to take control of the situation.

Learning Disabilities and Charity
People with learning disabilities may need more than direction to get the services they need and deserve.

Learning Disabilities and Schedules

Learning Disabled or Differently Able
What we might think of in a general way as learning disabled could be viewed as differently able by just the use of the words.

Learning to Count through Nature
Nature is full of opportunities for learning to count as it is full of sets, groups and arrangements of certain numbers.

Nurturing Abilities in Kids with Challenges
Here are some ways to help your kids discover their natural abilities when they have learning disabilities in some area or areas.

Nurturing Kids of all Abilities
Beside the fact that a child with disabilities may need closer supervision or a helper or aide, the quality of our time should be good for all kids.

Opportunities for Success for Kids with Challenges
Kids with learning disabilities may need their mentors to go the extra mile for them along the way to building what society calls a successful life.

Original Craft Arrangements
Easy and inexpensive crafts for gifts.

Other Strengths when Challenged
If we look at children and students individually, we can see both strengths and weaknesses. Let´s dwell on students´ strong points to nurture self esteem and bring forward their best qualities.

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

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Social Impact of Learning Disabilities
Having a learning disability is not limited to the impact on the individual´s life. Rather, I see the effects radiating to lives around the person, from their family into society.

Some Tips for Parents of Challenged Children
Tips for helping and encouraging your child to learn and grow.

Teaching Kids about the Secret to Happiness
Kids of all abilities and disabilities deserve happiness in life. And as kids learn most from the example of their parents it is up to us to lead the way.

Teaching Kids Order and Organization
Kids of most abilities, with some help, can learn how to keep their possessions and schedules orderly.

Vocational or Academics for Challenged Teens
Depending on the limitations of a particular learning disability, is it wise to try to make every child learn academic concepts?

Walking and Talking with Kids
Taking a walk with your kids is a perfect opportunity to discuss what is going on in their lives.

What to Do if your Child Clings
There is the possibility at any age that a child may cling. Though, if your child has learning disabilities the extra attachment may be compounded because the child may have a need not being met when away from you.