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Building and Maintaining a Good Relationship with Your Child's Teacher

The best way to support your child's needs is to build and maintain a strong, positive relationship with all the people at school who play a role in educating your child. And, make sure your child knows that this is a team effort — you're all working together to help him or her succeed! Learn how you can foster a sense of partnership with the teacher and administration to support your child's education.

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The Teacher's Role in Home/School Communication: Everybody Wins

Successful, responsive and productive schools share one common trait: They solicit, encourage, facilitate, and promote parental communication. Written in a "do's and don'ts" format, you'll learn to DO be positive, DO use a communication sandwich, DON'T let situations fester, and much, much more.

Building Trust with Schools and Diverse Families

If families are to trust teachers and other school staff members, they must believe that school personnel are qualified, fair, and dependable, and have their child's best interests at heart. Assessing the level of trust, actively welcoming students, and highlighting school successes are just a few of the suggestions within this article that can help teachers lay the foundation for great relationships.

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ADHD and Communication

Good communication isn't always easy to achieve. It's a balancing act between stating your point and needs and listening to another's. Knowing how to find that balance can lead to creative problem solving. Dr. Mark Bertin, a developmental pediatrician and contributor to LDOnLine, offers a brief but helpful communication checklist.

Advice: What tools can help my son with LD learn a foreign language?

Question: My 15-year-old son has a language-based learning disability. He has now started taking required foreign language classes and is struggling with vocabulary, verbal exercises, and exams. Are there any technology tools or software programs that might help him?

Answer: Learning a foreign language can be frustrating for a student with a language-based learning disability. Many of the same elements that may have posed problems in English (letter sounds, decoding, spelling, grammar), can cause difficulties in foreign language learning… (Read on for more)