From LDA’s Mental Health Committee Recently, you have likely noticed your Facebook or Instagram flooded with pictures of your friends’ children returning to school for the fall. Whether their child…
Mental Health
An Educator’s Guide to Easing Anxiety in the Classroom
Advice from learning & behavior consultant Bev Johns Adults need to learn what the triggers are for the children, and then help the children identify those triggers, so that they…
Depression: From LDA’s Mental Health Committee
LDA’s Mental Health Committee fights stigma, provides support, educates the public, and advocates for individuals with learning disabilities who also struggle with mental health issues. This month we are focusing…
Anxiety: From LDA’s Mental Health Committee
Since 1949, May has been the designated month for Mental Health Awareness. Each year LDA joins the movement to help fight stigma, provide support, educate the public, and advocate for…
ADHD: From LDA’s Mental Health Committee
Each year LDA joins the movement to help fight stigma, provide support, educate the public, and advocate for individuals with learning disabilities who also struggle with mental health issues. This…
How Can we Help Kids with Self-Regulation? Child Mind Institute
This guide defines self-regulation and emotional dysregulation, explains how to teach self-regulation skills, and more.
Managing Social-Emotional Issues: For Adults with Learning Disabilities
Some guidelines for adults with learning disabilities: Managing (and perhaps mastering) the social-emotional aspects of living with a learning disability. It’s important to start out with the reminder that although…
Learning the Language of Relationships
Relationships follow a chain of CHOICE – BEGINNING – DEEPENING – ENDING – CHOICE that is never ending. The closer to the beginning of the cycle that you have problems,…
Instinctual Optimism and Intrinsic Motivation: Every LD Student’s Keys to Success
Did you ever wonder? How a ten-month-old knows if she just keeps standing up she will eventually be able to walk. How an eighteen-month knows if he just keeps making…
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities: Why a Higher Risk?
There are certain aspects of learning disabilities which increase the risk for an individual to experience mental health issues. Failure to identify a learning disability at an early age and…
