Confidence & Joy: Success Strategies for Kids with Learning Differences: A Step-by-Step Guidebook for Parents and Professionals

Confidence & Joy: Success Strategies for Kids with Learning Differences: A Step-by-Step Guidebook for Parents and Professionals

In this breakthrough book, Confidence & Joy: Success Strategies for Kids with Learning Differences, you’ll be given practical tools to lead your child with learning differences to lifelong success—educationally, socially, and personally. You’ll be presented with questions for personal reflections that can transform parenting or teaching these children for who they are… smart and different! In this powerful parent-and professional-friendly book, you’ll find step-by-step strategies to build stellar teams and communities of support for your child as well as yourself. You’ll also learn simple guidelines to build successful relationships, identify confidence and joy robbers, and notice signs and signals of learning differences. Discover useful checklists on how to jump-start your child’s confidence and joy, as well as how to go to bat for your child. Based on more than 70 years of clinical experiences working with children with learning differences and communication disorders, Dr. Deborah Ross-Swain and Dr. Elaine Fogel Schneider’s message is as simple as it is effective: Children with learning differences are just that... different! Children with learning differences have their own talents and are smart, bright, and wonderful in their own way. All children are different, and all children want to succeed. With this book, they will! This book is a result of more than 70 years of combined clinical work with children and their families who experience communication disorders and learning differences. Our clinical work represents professional experience that collaborates with parents and professionals to create opportunities for learning success that can build confidence and joy in children struggling with learning differences. Collaborating with professionals and providing families with educational and service resources can result in children reaching their potential. All children are different, and all children want to succeed. This powerful book can make a huge difference in the lives of children with learning differences, their families, and the professionals and educators who serve them. You will learn why confidence and joy are important, how creating meaningful relationships can build confidence and joy and what can be confidence and joy robbers. You will discover the signs and signals of learning differences, how to jump-start your child's confidence and joy, and how to go to bat for your child. Moving from isolation to teams and communities of support, you will recognize how all children are smart in their own way. You will be inspired by anecdotal stories about children with learning differences and how they and their families turned their lives around. By using the valuable tools provided in this book, you will be inspired to provide opportunities for increased awareness, growth, and achievement to secure each child's personal, educational, and social success - in addition to your own.