Self-Advocacy: A Valuable Skill for Your Teenager with LD by Jodie Dawson

If your teen has a learning disability, self-awareness and self-advocacy are keys to her future success. The ability to self-advocate is important for kids to learn in order to be successful at all stages of their lives. In the past, self-advocacy was a term applied mostly to adults with disabilities, but recently more focus has been placed on teaching this skill to preteens and teenagers. Read more...

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Play-2-Learn Counseling Games

Kids love to play dominoes, and Play-2-Learn Dominoes™ is a new line of therapeutic/counseling games that puts the fun of playing dominoes to work helping kids learn important skills. These games are for elementary school students. 2 to 5 players. Games include: Anger Control, Bully Wise, Feelings Fun, Friendship, Empathy Counts, and Cyber Smart.

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