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Occupational Therapy in the Park: A Creative, Socially Distant Solution for a Child With a Learning Disability and ADHD

Sep 2, 2020

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This case study describes my work with Lucy, a 5-year-old child with working memory weaknesses, visual spatial difficulties, ADHD, and sensory processing disorder. Because Lucy struggles with attention, she finds it difficult to retain what letters and numbers look like. Before the pandemic, we had been doing a lot of multisensory work to help her…

Social Emotional Growth through Academic Content for All Students

Sep 2, 2020

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This case study describes the experiences of a fifth-grade special education teacher in New York City as she works to support her students’ basic and social-emotional needs—as well as their need for academic process during distance learning. She reflects on her experience and specific strategies, and she describes her classroom’s transformative experience during a unit…

Tips for Educators Based on Parent Reports of Remote Learning

Aug 4, 2020

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LDA recently conducted a poll of parents of students with learning disabilities (LD), and attention (ADHD) and executive function disorders (EFD) to see what their greatest needs are when trying to help their children learn remotely.This is part 1 of 2 resources created by LDA representing feedback from what more than 200 parents from 33…

Disability: Writing Disabilities

Occupational Therapy in the Park: A Creative, Socially Distant Solution for a Child With a Learning Disability and ADHD

Social Emotional Growth through Academic Content for All Students

Tips for Educators Based on Parent Reports of Remote Learning