What is a 504 Plan? A 504 plan is for those students who don’t need the support of special education with individualized instruction, but do need support with very specific issues that impact their school performance.  It removes barriers to learning and allows students to be successful at school.  Often a 504 plan is recommended

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Our children face many academic challenges throughout the year. We may not consider, however, that they also face the challenge of carefully establishing and maintaining social relationships with their peers. This task is most critical for our adolescents where social relationships are of prime importance to them.  Evidence shows that this can be a great

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Many children have an overall weakness in the area of writing, which makes getting assignments finished a real struggle at home and school.  Writing weaknesses often accompany ADHD, dyslexia, and learning disabilities, or can be the specific diagnosis of dysgraphia (a learning disability that directly affects writing abilities).  We need to identify writing difficulties and

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When students have difficulty learning to read, parents may be told by their child’s teacher, “Your child has difficulty with phonemic awareness.”  Many parents walk away from such statement and don’t fully understand what that means.  What is phonemic awareness? Researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development have made the following

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Many parents today find themselves overwhelmed and confused as they sort through a plethora of parenting books, theories, and techniques. While it is wonderful that modern educational and philosophical trends support and reinforce parenting pedagogy as the most difficult and important skill set, many parents now find themselves unable to sort through the flood of

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