About Learning Disabilities - Diagnosis & Treatment Information

Read about learning disabilities common in ADHD children, plus diagnosis and treatment information

• About Learning Disabilities: What's an Auditory Processing Disorder?
  If your child has problems understanding and following your directions,... more »
• Dyslexia Diaries
  Dr. Ned Hallowell examines his past with dyslexia and provides... more »
• Detecting Early Reading Problems in Children with Learning Disabilities
  Expert advice for determining whether your child is simply slow... more »
• Parent Checklist: 15 Ways to Help Children with ADHD and Learning Disabilities
  Effective strategies for raising children with both ADHD and a... more »

• Test for Dyslexia
  "Is there a specific test for dyslexia?"... more »
• Identifying Learning Disabilities
  "How can one differentiate between lack of focus related to... more »
• On- or Off-Meds When Undergoing Evaluations?
  "My 10-year-old son is going to be evaluated for learning... more »
• What Is a 'Slow Processing Speed?'
  "Our son is bright, but an educational assessment found that... more »
• Medication for Learning Disabilities?
  "Why are there medications to treat ADHD but none to... more »
• Should meds improve handwriting?
  "ADHD medication improved my eight-year-old's attention, but not his handwriting... more »
• Taking Tests in School
  "I struggle with test-taking. Is this common?" ... more »
• Reading Disorders and ADHD
  "My eight-year-old has trouble reading. I recently read about a... more »

• Learning Disabilities: What Are They?
  A step-by-step approach to help teachers and parents understand the... more »
• Recommended Web Sites About Special Ed
  These top ADHD and LD Web sites will immerse you... more »
• The Misunderstood Child: Understanding and Coping with Your Child's Learning Disabilities
  A completely revised edition of the bestselling guide for parents... more »
• The Don’t-Give-Up Kid and Learning Differences
  A child struggles to read, but learns to never stop... more »
• Taking Dyslexia to School
  Matt shares the challenges he faces with reading and math... more »

• Behavior After Medication
  My 5 year old son has just been diagnosed by... more »
• Cognitive and social issues - is it adhd?
  My daughter is 6 yrs old. We live in India... more »
• Married, Military, ADD/ADHD
  New to all of this. I am 22 years old... more »
• I think my 7yr old son has ADHD...I'm so scared
  My (7yr) son started 1st grade this year (after repeating... more »
• a lot to take in
  My daughter was just dignosed with ADHD, combined and with... more »
• BBC Documentary
  Hello, My name is Polly Greetham and I work for... more »

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What was your primary emotion upon learning that you or your child has ADD? Relief - finally answers to what's been puzzling Optimism - pursuing treatment will change my life Shame - it's uncomfortable for me to tell others about this diagnosis Regret - if only we'd known sooner, how different life might have been Sadness - what I thought was unique about me turns out to be a "disorder"