Welcome to LDOnLine.org HELPING HELPERS Bulletin Board!
We hope you have had a chance to view LDOnLine’s new Web page, HELPING HELPERS. A Web page devoted to volunteers helping children with LD and/or ADHD achieve success.
Please encourage volunteers you know — in the classroom, on the football field, in the community center —to read the new Web page and to share best practices and concerns on this bulletin board.
And, as always, please share your thoughts with us if we can improve our service in any way.
Re: WELCOME TO HELPING HELPERS
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Re: WELCOME TO HELPING HELPERS
It would be very helpful if you were to give us the approximation of where people were (geography wise so we may possible get together if we are close by, you know the same country ,state ,province etc.
Re: WELCOME TO HELPING HELPERS
It would be very helpful if you were to give us the approximation of where people were (geography wise so we may possible get together if we are close by, you know the same country ,state ,province etc.
ATHLETES NEED NOT ONLY APPLY
Why is the assumption that every child with a disability would only be able to be included in recreation if they are interested in athletics?
I work with a wide variety of students with Bd and ED and LD and other complex issues. Most are not successful in athletic activities for a variety of reasons mostly because NOT EVERY KID LIKES SPORTS.
Inclusion or participation with non disabled peers needs to broaden their recreational options - what about music: making it and listening to it? Art- drawing, cartooning, painting, sculpting, and all its forms could let students with disabilities shine as they are usually gifted in some area that has yet to be tapped. Web development and computer based creative avenues should be explored and offered by park districtsa nd organized recreation. How about religious organizations that all have youth outreach - this offers opportunities to be around clean and sober activities that form friendships and healthy social outlets. Reading or writer’s clubs through libraries are another source of recreation for many non-disabled people in the community as well as boy scouting and camping and community service. Has anyone tried including students with disabitlies in working with the elderly, at the forest preseveres or at animal shelters? These are all non-athletic ways that all young people- especially adolescents could explore connections within the community and perhaps find new vocational ideas as well as have fun. I hope this gives some people ideas of their own.
I’m looking for ideas to help a child withLD he has behavioural issues and he isnt into sports of any kind, he doesnt seem to have an interest in anything how do you motivate him.