online consultation and tutoring

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I am a pediatric speech therapist (speeech language patholigist) and am interested in doing online consultation and tutoring for a low fee: my specialty is learning disabilities esp. dyslexia and adhd. I am wondering what parents might be looking for in such an area? Would you tend to do this more if you lived in a rural area, if you homeschooled and needed extra help, if you couldn’t find a tutor in person? I specialize in finding out area of breakdown for kids with help from local therapists of course and planning programs accordingly. What kind of things do you look for in a learning disability consultant or tutor? Thanks.

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/04/2002 - 4:53 PM

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Hello,

I look for someone to interpet the IEP test scores and what kind of remediation by daughter needs. This frankly has never been done.

JanineKay

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/05/2002 - 5:03 AM

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Online consultation poses some challenges because you will not have the opportunity to actually observe the child. But, when our son was very young my husband and I took a course called HANEN parent training which helped us to learn techniques to help our son’s language development. It was a very worthwhile program. I would suspect there are many parents who do not have local access to a program like HANEN that would be willing to take an online course with personal coaching and email coorespondence with a SLP. HANEN was an 8 week program, where we videotaped sessions with our child, then discuessed the tapes with our group and coaches who were SLP. A modified program like this on-line would also appeal to parents who do not have insurance coverage or resources for expensive speech therapy. Good Luck.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/05/2002 - 2:02 PM

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I am a special education teacher in GA. I just moved here from SC. I have trouble with the “definition” area of learning disabilities. According to what I know, a parent and teacher can sit down and decide that the child is LD… however, here they want 15 point discrepency. Could you help me with this? I can’t find any websites to help me with the “definition”.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/06/2002 - 2:58 AM

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It varies from state to state. I worked in Indiana and it was 17 points between IQ and achievement testing. In Ohio they want 30 points (ridiculous no?). To me, a learning disabiity is quite simply when something a child struggles with impacts their learning. You do need some stadardization because people’s subjective views vary tremendously but it should never be the only criteria although often it is.

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