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Many parents seek additional help for their children by having them work with tutors. Tutors can provide individualized and specialized assistance that will enhance children’s learning skills and support their teacher’s instructional work in the classroom.

Here are some suggestions to help ensure a good match between a student and tutor.

How Can Parents Help At Home?

Various aspects of daily living can be learned at home and will help contribute to later independence:

Time Management

Time-management means taking time to make time-so you can get more done, and have the freedom to do more of the things you want.

Adolescents and adults with learning disabilities frequently have difficulty organizing and using time effectively. Time management is a learned skill that can enhance self-esteem, reduce stress in the classroom and the workplace, in the home, and in life general.

For most children, all the skills needed for oral language are acquired naturally by the time they are five years old. A kindergartner for example uses sophisticated vocabulary and grammar and has nearly accurate pronunciation, which are used effectively to manipulate his or her social environment. In order to acquire this level of language skill, young children must first consistently hear language.

Social skills instruction is a critical educational component for many students with learning disabilities. To completely understand learning disabilities requires consideration of the social areas of the child's life (Learner, 1997). A student's learning disability is not confined by the classroom walls; it permeates into all areas of the students' life. For some students with learning disabilities the social domain presents problems because of deficits in auditory processing, memory, attention, visual, spatial, motor, and expressive language

Impact on Social Functioning; And Interpersonal Skills

Maggie Mamen, Ph.D., C.Psych

Learning disabilities affects 10% of the population - that's one in every ten children.

What is an Individual Education Plan (IEP)

An I.E.P. is a written plan. It is a working document which describes the strengths and needs of an individual exceptional pupil, the special education program and services established to meet that pupil's needs, and how the program and services will be delivered. It also describes the student's progress.