Welcome to this weeks newletter.

Featured Articles

This week in our "Featured Articles" section you can read Part 3 of The Puzzle Boy Strikes out to the Wild West!

In this article Nancy tells about her families adventure with her autistic son at Yosemite Valley.
They stayed in a house tent, found great healthy food at the store there, and enjoyed the mountains. The campfire smoke posed a problem for her son Seth which they think caused him to have seizures, but overall he did fine.

She urges us to take our autistic child outdoors tonight and have a campfire. Sing some happy songs.

To read the article in full visit here and stay tuned for Part 4.


In another article you can learn about social learning disabilities and how we can help our children overcome them.

Social learning is every bit as important to healthy development as learning to read or do fractions.

Five leading indicators of a social learning problems are...

1. Limited Friendships
2. Excessive Self-Consciousness
3. Frequently Missed Social Cues
4. Difficulty Sustaining Conversation
5. Complaints that "Nobody Likes Me"

If you have concerns about your own child's social development, or are wondering if he or she has a non-verbal learning disability, please don't wait to seek assistance.

Read the details for each of these indicators at Does Your Child Have a Social Learning Disability?


Forum News

Our “Discussion Forum” introduces many interesting topics every week.
Here we find a private place to share with others, make friends, and ask questions of the Featured Experts on the site.

Two of the things we talked about this week were... Bal-A-Vis-X and Joyce Herzog.

I talked about my daughter's experience in taking private lessons, how it helped her
and how I've heard of so many children in our area who have been helped by doing these exercises.

Other things said were...

"I just finished taking levels 1-3 Bal-A-Vis-X and am very excited about it and it's potential to help with a variety of problems kids have in focusing, calming down, and using information from both right and left hemispheres of the brain.

"One thing that stands out, is that this is something you can do inside... A good thing when you live in a place that heats up to past 107 degrees, like we do here in AZ!"


We discussed Joyce Herzog and all the wonderful products she has available. What a wise woman she is. She has a masters in Learning Disabilities and an honorary PHD in Humane Letters.

We were excited to find out that she will be attending Entrepreneurs Days in Atlanta and those that are going will have a chance to meet her. Did you know if you join the site for $1.00, you get to come to the conference for half price!

We are really getting to know each other in the Forums!
Come join us. We want to get to know you.



Tip of the Week

Writing is often a struggle for children with learning disorders.

So the very first tip is:
1: Have realistic expectations of the child's handwriting and neatness.

If you expect perfection you and your child will become disappointed
and discouraged.

2: Do not demand speed.

Be patient and let them write as slowly as it takes for them to form
good letters and correct sentences.

3: Use alternative testing methods for the child, i.e., having the
student answer orally, highlighting instead of writing answers.

4: Encourage letter writing to friends, relatives. Have decorative
paper or stationary with their name on it to help attract the children.

5: Keep a daily journal with your child. Have them write feelings
or happenings to you and you write back the next day. Let them know
that this is a special project between the two of you (also helps to
promote relationships!!).

6: Have the child relate daily activities. Encourage complete
sentences if possible.

Writing is an important skills to have. Let's help our children to the best of our ability.

Have a good week! Robin

For more information on how to help your special needs child succeed, join us at
Dealing With Learning Disorders