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10 Tips for Parents and Teachers of Learning Disabled Kids
This list of 10 parenting tips is a guideline for successful parenting of a child with learning disabilities. In addition to the incorporation of these tips into your parenting skills, understand that often, therapy for children with learning disabilities and their parents can increase feelings of success and self acceptance, and decrease feelings of isolation.
1. Do not underestimate your child's potential. Encourage him or her to develop to the best of their ability while pursuing their own interests.
2. Consult a professional specializing in working with Learning Disabled children to begin to pool the public resources available to children with Learning Disabilities.
3. Help your child to not feel alone with their disability. Find positive role models such as an adult living productively and successfully with a Learning Disorder.
4. After securing appropriate educational services for your child, (IEP's, Resource Classes, Special Education Aides etc...) STAY INVOLVED with your child's educational support team and ask for recommendations of how to create a positive learning environment for your child at home.
5. Keep in mind the feelings of your spouse and other children. Remind them that just because your Learning Disabled child gets more of your time does not mean that he or she gets more of your love.
6. Be honest with yourself and be aware of your own limitations. You cannot be a perfect parent, nor do you have an unlimited reservoir of energy. Do not foget self care.
7. Keep a sense of humor.
8. Do not get caught up in comparing your child to his or her other classmates. Judge your child's progress by comparing your child only against themselves.
9. Slow down, allow time to reflect on you and your child's accomplishments, not just his/her, or your own shortcomings.
10. Seek out support groups for parents of children with Learning Disabilities.
About the Author
My name is Dr. Jared Maloff. I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Beverly Hills. I work with a vast array of adult, adolescent and child clients presenting with a variety of symptoms and diagnoses. I also conduct psychological testing for clinical, educational and forensic issues with both adults as well as children. This includes obtaining testing accommodations for standardized tests such as the SAT, LSAT, GMAT etc…
Below is a listing of the diagnoses and symptoms that I often treat in my clinical work:
ADHD, Adult ADHD, Asperger’s Disorder, Autism, Anxiety, Bereavement and Loss, Body Dysmorphia, Depression, Hypochondriasis, Learning Disabilities, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Problems with Motivation, Self Esteem Issues, Social Phobia, Somatization Disorders, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Trouble with Relationships.
Those experiencing symptoms such as these can find relief through the therapeutic therapist/client relationship. My method of conducting therapy is psychodynamic meaning that I focus on each client’s unprocessed, unconscious thoughts and emotions to provide insight, self knowledge and symptom relief. My style is also relational meaning that the work of ‘making the unconscious conscious’ is done within the parameters of the ‘here and now’ relationship that I form with my client. It is within this specific framework that I find therapy to be most effective in producing feelings of relief, and in fostering long-term change toward achieving therapeutic goals.
Does anyone know of a modeling agency that works specifically with special-needs and disabled kids?
I know that Toys "R" Us uses special-needs kids in their print ads all the time and other companies do as well. I found an agency called Beautiful Kids Inc. However, it seems that they are out of business - as their phone number has been disconnected and there is no website for them. Please let me know if there are others out there or if there is updated information for this one.
I found a couple of articles that may interest you. sorry I couldn't spend more time
Articles:
Sacrificing truth on the altar of diversity
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | August 30, 2006
YOU'RE A publisher of children's textbooks, and you have a problem. Your diversity guidelines -- quotas in all but name -- require you to include pictures of disabled children in your elementary and high school texts, but it isn't easy to find handicapped children who are willing and able to pose for a photographer. Kids confined to wheelchairs often suffer from afflictions that affect their appearance, such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy. How can you meet your quota of disability images if you don't have disabled models who are suitably photogenic?
Well, you can always do what Houghton Mifflin does. The well-known textbook publisher keeps a wheelchair on hand as a prop and hires able-bodied children from a modeling agency to pose in it. It keeps colorful pairs of crutches on hand, too -- in case a child model turns out to be the wrong size for the wheelchair.
Houghton Mifflin's ploy was recently described by reporter Daniel Golden in a Wall Street Journal story on the lengths to which publishers go to get images of minorities and the disabled into grade-school textbooks. A Houghton Mifflin spokesman claimed that able-bodied models are presented as handicapped only as a last resort. But according to one of the company's regular photographers, the deception is the norm. At least three-fourths of the children portrayed as disabled in Houghton Mifflin textbooks actually aren't, she told Golden. In fact, publishers have to keep track of all the models they use for such pictures, so that a child posing as disabled in one chapter isn't shown running or climbing a tree in another.
Faked photos of handicapped kids are just one of the ways in which truth is sacrificed on the altar of diversity. The cofounder of PhotoEdit Inc., a commercial archive that specializes in pictures of what it calls ``ethnic and minority people in all walks of life," advises publishers that images of Chicanos can be passed off as American Indians from the Southwest, because they ``look very similar." Similarly, Golden notes, a textbook photographer tells clients that since the ``facial features" of some Asians resemble Indians from Mexico, ``there are some times where you can flip-flop."
Yet pictures of authentic Hispanics who happen to have blond hair or blue eyes don't count toward the Hispanic quota ``because their background would not be apparent to readers." In other words, rather than expose schoolchildren to the fact that ``Hispanic" is an artificial classification that encompasses people of every color, publishers promote the fiction that all Hispanics look the same -- and that looks, not language or lineage, are the essence of Hispanic identity.
Some images are banned from textbooks because they are deemed stereotypical or offensive. For example, McGraw-Hill's guidelines specify that Asians not be portrayed wearing glasses or as intellectuals and that publishers avoid showing Mexican men in ponchos or sombreros. ``One major publisher vetoed a photo of a barefoot child in an African village," Golden writes, ``on the grounds that the lack of footwear reinforced the stereotype of poverty on that continent." Grinding poverty is in fact a daily reality for hundreds of millions of Africans. But when reality conflicts with political correctness, reality gets the boot.
So, on occasion, does historical perspective, as for example when a McGraw-Hill US history text devoted a profile and photograph to Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman pilot -- but neglected even to mention Wilbur and Orville Wright. ``A company spokesman," the Journal reports dryly, ``said the brothers had been left out inadvertently."
It isn't only when it comes to texts that diversity has led to dishonesty, or even to the manipulation of photos. In 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison featured a group of students cheering at a football game on the cover of its admissions brochure. One of those students was Diallo Shabazz, a black senior who hadn't been at the game. University officials, desperately wanting the new publication to reflect a diverse student body, had lifted Diallo's image from somewhere else and digitally inserted it into the football shot. ``Our intentions were good," Madison's director of university publications said when the deception was exposed, ``but our methods were bad."
But the ``good" intentions of the diversity crusaders cannot be separated from bad methods they resort to, whether those methods involve racial quotas in admissions and hiring, the assignment of schoolchildren on the basis of color, or photographic fakery that puts healthy kids in wheelchairs. By reducing ``diversity" to something as shallow and meaningless as appearance, they reinforce the most dehumanizing stereotypes of all -- those that treat people first and foremost as members of racial, ethnic, or social groups. Far from acknowledging the genuine complexity and variety of human life, the diversity dogmatists deny it. Is it any wonder that their methods so often lead to unhappy and unhealthy results?
Jeff Jacoby's e-mail address is jacoby@globe.com.
© Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.
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The devotee community is presently seeing a huge upsurge in the number of movies featuring disabled models. But the quality (and the price) vary considerably. So I started this group to get some peer reviews of the movies available and perhaps suggest materials that we as devotees of disabled women would like to see in the future. Please feel free to comment and participate. If you dont like a movie, here is the place to tell us and if you do, then please tell us!!
Jasper (Moderator)http://groups.yahoo.com/group/devoteemoviereviews/
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