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Guideline for Parents

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1. Observation

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  • Observe your child's behavior. Learning difficulties, which are often seen in approximately 1 in 10 school age children, cannot be easily defined by families and teachers.
  • Consult the school psychologist. While similar problems occur in identifying many psychological problems, distinguishing learning difficulties requires an evaluation which is more complex.
  • First of all, you shouldn't worry immediately. Literacy skills difficulties are defined as specific learning difficulties especially for children who start a new school and this can create major concerns for both children and families.
  • You should not think that every child who has difficulties in literacy is experiencing learning difficulties.
  • Each child’s learning skills are unique and may vary according to the situation. For example, family problems or negative experiences they have in classroom may negatively affect learning. Consider these issues while evaluating your child.

Websites

  • Steps Parents Should Take Once Their Child is Identified with a Learning Disability
    This web-site is mainly dedicated to parents but it would be really helpful also for teachers and students and it aims to provide parents with a few tips on how to handle the situation and how to guide their child to success in school and in life.
  • Helping children with learning disabilities
    The site addresses the problematic of students with learning difficulties on a very open and broad basis, allowing parents to really be part of the solution that must be found within the triangle family-school-community.
  • Teachers Experience
    A collection of teachers’ experiences from the School Inclusion Portal. Teachers can take advantage of methodologies and strategies shared by their colleagues in order to prevent and tackle early school leaving.

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20 December 2014

Final Partners’ meeting

The fourth partners’ meeting took place in Florence (IT) on 15 December 2014. The meeting had the objective to check the activities carried out since the third meeting of the project and share and assess the in progress results. A special focus has been dedicated to the presentation of the strategies to solve the case scenarios.