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What are the warning signs of ADHD that teachers should look out for in their female students?
Published June 8, 2021, by LDAOeng Although girls with ADHD will tend to struggle in all areas of functioning, we tend to rely more heavily on relatively subtle clues during diagnosis, and educators are often in the best position to observe them. 0 Comments

Shifting from Avoidant to Approach Coping Strategies: Helping Children with Learning Disabilities Face Challenges
Published June 3, 2021, by LDAOeng Often, children cope with distress by gradually withdrawing from or avoiding situations, thoughts, or feelings, and engaging in behaviours like procrastination, school refusal, lying about getting work done, or feeling tired or unwell. 0 Comments

Seen, Understood, Accepted, and Celebrated: Using Broader Lenses to Assess Online Engagement in Learners of All Ages
Published June 1, 2021, by LDAOeng Consider this: you might actually be missing a lot of the student engagement that your hard work and dedication have created. Teachers need to learn how to recognize and fully appreciate the wide range of engagement that is already occurring in classrooms and in online spaces. 0 Comments

Webinar Recording: Recognizing and Understanding Girls with ADHD
Published May 28, 2021, by LDAOeng ADHD is a prevalent diagnosis, but girls are often missed because their ADHD presents in different ways than boys, leading to misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis. 0 Comments

Webinar Recording: In Love With Learning… Online! Ten Keys to delight, persistence, and attention in an online space
Published May 19, 2021, by LDAOeng Let's get back to basics! In this calm and grounding presentation, we’ll refresh key research on engagement and motivation, provide our straightforward Ten Keys tool for tweaking your online lessons, and create space for participants to use the keys to start unlocking a frustrating previous experience. 0 Comments

10 Tips for Teaching Phonological Awareness
Published May 18, 2021, by LDAOeng Phonological awareness is a crucial foundational skill in the journey of learning to read. Research shows that challenges in phonemic awareness and other phonological skills both predict and cause poor reading and spelling development and that decoding instruction may be ineffective unless children can first hear the sounds in spoken language. 0 Comments

Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities during Writing Circles
Published May 17, 2021, by LDAOeng The Writing Circle is an innovative teaching approach used to teach writing at the primary level, which can be adapted to support students with LDs to encourage their enjoyment of writing, activate and increase their knowledge of writing, and enable them to acquire new writing skills, both in planning and revising texts. 0 Comments

Betting on Success: Teaching Reading through the Principles of Direct Instruction in a Regular Classroom
Published March 9, 2021, by LDAOeng Reading is a significant area of need throughout Ontario schools. Too many students have gaps in too many areas of reading, impacting not only the day-to-day instruction in our classrooms, but the face of education as a whole. Direct Instruction is needed to remediate those gaps and build literate children who are equipped with a variety of strategies to decode words and comprehend ideas. In order to provide our students with the quality of reading instruction they need, we as teachers need to better understand the skills that build readers and provide consistent opportunities for practice and application. 0 Comments

What is the best advice that educators can pass onto parents and students who are preparing for the transition to post-secondary education?
Published March 2, 2021, by LDAOeng Research suggests that students with LD transitioning to post-secondary environments often face a variety of academic, social, and emotional challenges as they navigate changes and differences between the secondary and post-secondary settings. 0 Comments

Webinar Recording: The Road Ahead – The undergraduate learning experience for students with LDs
Published February 23, 2021, by LDAOeng This webinar will provide insight into the undergraduate learning experience in university settings for students with LDs. Educators attending this webinar will gain an understanding of what the student experience at university might look like for students with LDs and how to help prepare students for a successful transition to post-secondary learning. 0 Comments