Hello, I am new to this sight and need some help with a teen with LD. Discipline….how to handle this. I have looked through some of the posts on here and it seems you have many intellegent people here. My husband says I am to easy on her, I think he is to tough. What to do?! She is a handful and until recently we didn’t have a reason for her behavior. She is so angry, volitile, aggressive, and frustrating! And of course as is the LD way she claims no responsability for her actions because it is always someone elses fault she is in trouble! :? Only have known she is LD for a few months and she is 14! Although I had insisted to her ped. Dr. (and others) many times that there was something “wrong” with her the “symptoms” were to vague to get them to take me seriously. As I also homeschool her I made the huge mistake of thinking she was lazy or just plain trying to drive me crazy when she couldn’t learn her multiplication table after 4 years! I am still in the guilt, anger, guilt, sadness, researching, guilt, did I mention guilt phase of it all? :wink: Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who reply.
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I am in the same situation! My dd is 15 but we learned of her LD when she was 8, and have been struggling since then. We have been to LOTS of psychologist, psychiatrist, counselors, parenting classes, etc and NOTHING has helped! so what we are finally doing (for not knowing to do this before now) is get her tested by a neuropsychologist. They are suppose to tell exactly what the problems are and WHAT TO DO about them! Yes she has gotten worse in the teen years but they didn’t START when she was a teen. She has ALWAYS had her problems. We have a month to wait for the first appointment and I’m trying to hang on. She is about to drive us crazy, sometimes not intentionally, and we have tried all we know to do…..
You may want to post this on the “parenting a child with Ld” section. I think it got lost here. My son was on this path until he went to the resource room and started working at his own pace. I am scared that he may never catch up if he is working at his own pace but he is happy again.
I have found good advise at the Parenting a child with ld section. Try again if you are still looking for answers. Also there is a video called F.A.T. City. It is really good. It helped me with assisting him at homework time. Try your local library that is where I found one. I helped me understand.