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A Parent's Perspective — Twenty Years Later (audio)

By Gloria from New Jersey (Parent)

about learning disabilities–students with disabilitiesIn this Parent Perspective, Gloria, the mother of a student with learning disabilities, shares some of the lessons she learned as she was weaving her way through the "special education maze." Gloria suggests that a child with LD is an opportunity for both parents and teachers to get creative and try something new.

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