Informed Consumer's Guide to Learning Disabilities Intervention and Treatments
Learning disabilities can have a profound effect on the school performance and emotional lives of children. These often include poor and failing grades, related emotional distress and even struggles with daily activities. For parents and teachers of these children, there is a strong desire to help. Often help comes in the form of untested classroom interventions and controversial treatments. Though the intent may be good, the consequences are not. A failed intervention or treatment has many negative implications. First and foremost, it reinforces the child's sense of incompetence. It also wastes the child's time. In a culture that is organized along an 'aging and staging' model, the implications for being out of synch with social norms can have serious consequences. It is therefore very important, that both parents of children with learning disabilities and teachers who work with these children be well informed before they make any decisions around treatment.
Being 'informed' in the field of learning disabilities is not a simple task. It is an area fraught with half-truths and myths. It is also an area of diligent research, but often not easily translatable for public consumption or to classroom practice. Often a search for what is best for your child or student leads to endless suggestions and conflicting opinions. It is the intent of 'The Informed Consumer's Guide' to help bring clarity around interventions and treatments for learning disabilities.
This guide will be presented as a series of articles over the next six months. It will focus on a user's guide to research literature, understanding an evaluating the literature and applying it to interventions and treatments.
Informed Consumer Series
- Learning Disability Interventions: Making Sense of the Evidence
- Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Learning Disabilities
- The Efficacy of Neurofeedback in the Management of Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Irlen Filters and Learning Disabilities
- Rebuttal to Irlen Filters and Learning Disabilities
- Reconceptualizing ADHD
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