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A Parent’s Guide to Evaluations, IEPs, and More
A Q&A with LDA CEO, attorney, and parent Cindy Cipoletti If you suspect your child has a learning disability, what should your first steps be? This would depend on how…
A Parent’s Guide: What to Expect When Your Child Has LD
A Q&A with Mitchell Beres, President of LDA Virginia and a parent to two children with learning disabilities. Anthony would start asking the question, ‘Why me? What’s wrong with me?…
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Letter to State Directors of Special Education
*LDA sent the following letter to all State Directors of Special Education regarding delays in evaluations and reevaluations. September 1, 2020 As the start of the school year draws near,…
LDA Raises Concerns over IDEA and Section 504 Waivers to Secretary Betsy DeVos
Pittsburgh, PA (April 1, 2020) – The Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA) has submitted a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos related to concerns about a provision…
National experts in education, child care and children’s health issue joint call to get lead out of schools and child care facilities, which enroll more than 66 million children in the U.S.
Major New Warning: Toxic Flame Retardants
Homework: Don’t Let Today’s Kindness Be Tomorrow’s Cruelty
Testing Accommodations for ADHD: Evidence that the Status Quo is Ineffective
The Reading Brain: Executive Function Hard at Work
