LD Links (LD News: September 2006)

Helpful Tips on Learning How to Read
Help your child become a happy and confident reader in preschool, kindergarten, or in first, second, or third grade with these tips from Reading Rockets. NEA's Read Across America partners Reading Rockets and Colorín Colorado have provided tips in a variety of languages " Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Arabic, and more!

To use these tips, click here.

Don't forget to visit NCLD's early literacy program site, www.getreadytoread.org, for more ways to help your preschoolers get ready to read!

Back-to-School Kit 2006 for Parents of Students with LD
SchwabLearning has prepared this Back-to-School Kit for parents of elementary, middle, and high school students with learning disabilities. Topics include parent/teacher collaboration, fostering motivation and self esteem, and planning ahead. 

To use the Back-To-School Kit 2006, click here.

Advocacy and Support for Parents and Students in New York City Public Schools
Advocates for Children of New York is a non-profit organization that strives to increase support for New York City public education and make the public school system more accessible for parents by providing educational, legal, and advocacy support for parents, young people, and professionals.

For more information about the Advocates for Children of New York Web site, click here.

An Interview with Dr. Mark Greenberg
Dr. Mark Greenberg, the Bennett Endowed Chair of Prevention Research in the College of Health and Human Development and the Director of the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development at Penn State University, discusses his studies on Language, Emotion, and Learning to Read, covering such topics as childhood self-reflexivity, self-management, teaching self-control, and midentifying emotions. 

To read the interview, click here.

NCLD's Recently Enhanced Resource Locator
Be sure to visit NCLD's Resource Locator this month, with updates and expanded resources and which now features a new search function for private schools for students with LD. 

To visit LD InfoZone's Resource Locator, click here.

Is Homework Effective? An Interview with Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn, author of 11 books on education, parenting, and human behavior, discusses his new book, The Homework Myth, and the lack of evidence that supports the belief that students benefit from homework. 

To read the interview, click here.

Joseph B. Tulman Speaks on Incarceration and Special Education
In this interview from EducationWeek.org, Joseph B. Tulman, Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, discusses special education programs and juvenile justice.

To read the interview, click here.

Students with Disabilities More Likely to Graduate with Family Support
School dropout of students with disabilities is more than twice as high as students without disabilities, at a rate of about 40 percent. This brief from The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (NCSET) provides information and tips to help families stay involved in their students' lives during high school in order to increase their likelihood of graduating.

To read the brief, click here.

Help Finding the Right Early Child Care
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) has developed a guide, built around 10 standards, to help families make the right choice in their search for early child care centers, preschools, or kindergartens. The guide is available in English and in Spanish.

To view A Guide for Families, Using NAEYC Standards to Find Quality Programs for Young Children, in English, click here. 

To view A Guide for Families, Using NAEYC Standards to Find Quality Programs for Young Children, in Spanish, click here.

International Child & Adolescent Conference
On October 12-14, 2006, the International Child & Adolescent Conference XIII: Research-based Practices to Improve Learning and Social Outcomes for Students will be held in Minneapolis, MN. This thirteenth annual conference will provide innovative, practical strategies for those who work with children and with youth who present challenging behaviors.

For more on the conference, click here.

Review of the Child Well-Being Index Now Available
A summary and transcript of the conference, Review of the Child Well-Being Index (CWI), hosted by The Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families and the Foundation for Child Development, are now available online. The conference discussed the construction and uses of the CWI, and was led by experts Don Hernandez, Bill O'Hare, Nick Zill, and Brett Brown. 

For more on the conference, click here.