Life Success
For Children With Learning Disabilities
Learning disabilities (LD) affect some 15 percent of the U.S. population. Today, almost 3 million school age students receive special education services because of learning disabilities.
Drawing on more than 20 years of groundbreaking research tracing the lives of children and adults with LD, researchers at the Frostig Center in Pasadena, California have identified key factors that contribute to success.
Understanding and nuturing these key factors - called "success attributes" - can aid in a child's development and ability to overcome LD. Each of the six success attributes - self-awareness, proactivity, perseverance, goal-setting, support systems, and emotional coping strategies - has been shown to lead to successful life outcomes for children with LD.
Now, these innovative guides for parents and teachers offer new tools to help foster the development of these success attributes.
"We hope that by providing parents and teachers of LD children with information about these personal characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors, many more youngsters will then go on to lead successful lives."
-- Dr. Eleanor Higgins, Director of Research, The Frostig Center
A GUIDE FOR PARENTS:
This Guide describes each of the six success attributes and features quotes from successful adults with LD who help explain each attribute from the viewpoint of individuals who live with LD. Recommendations for how to develop success attributes in children with LD, as well as tips on how to recognize if a child possesses any of these important characteristics and behaviors are also included. A downloadable version is also available.
A GUIDE FOR TEACHERS:
This Web guide is designed to help teachers of students with LD understand the six success attributes, provides seven guiding principles for fostering the success attributes in students and offers checklists to help determine the presence or absence of the success attributes in students. Activities and resources to assist in developing success attributes are also offered. A Classroom Activities Exchange provides teachers with an opportunity to locate and contribute successful activities.
