Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eAFFum927697; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:56:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:56:58 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <18.4e94b34.27435728@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: JATDP@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3265] RE: Help with College Prep Skills X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 114 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1008 Lines: 20 Liz, This is also not an expert's opinion, but a short story shared between moms. I have a friend (who also happens to be a teacher) who has two sons with learning disabilities. When her oldest son was still in high school, struggling with little help from teachers dispite much parental advocacy, she sent him to a summer program/camp in New Hampshire specifically for kids with LD. It was a mixture of true summer camp activities including hiking, kayaking, etc, but with lots of speciailized intense tutoring mixed in. What seemed to make a huge difference for my friend's son were three things - there were activities that he really enjoyed and did well (the outdoors stuff); he was with a bunch of young adults that also had learning disabilities, it was the norm at this camp; and the specialized tutoring designed to meet his needs and strengths gave him some successes in academic work. The story has a happy ending, he graduated from college this past year. Judy Titzel Providence, RI
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