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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The Ticket Store Game

The Ticket Store Game has been designed to help children learn to listen and behave. Children earn tickets for good behavior and use these tickets to "buy" rewards from the Ticket Store Game board.  They earn more tickets if they listen and do what is asked of them the first time a request is made. For example, if the child listens and acts the first time he or she is asked to do something, he or she is rewarded with three tickets. If the child has to be asked a second time, he or she is rewarded, but only with two tickets. This is a progressive system that encourages good behavior the first time. More importantly, as the game progresses, children will do positive things without being asked, so that they earn tickets. The Ticket Store Game is not a child improvement chart, rather it is an interactive game that promotes child behavior modification to solve child behavior problems.

 

Situations: The "What if ..." Game

The “What if...” game that could save your child’s life- teaching kids how to avoid abduction and abuse. With a “What if...” game format using question/answer cards, Situations™ teaches children how to recognize and respond when confronted with potentially life threatening scenarios. You and your children will learn many of the actual methods and schemes used by real child predators one may read about in local newspapers. This game will also have a profound impact on opening the lines of communication between children and their parents with respect to these subjects that, for even the best of parents, are often difficult to discuss. Situations™ is a must for homes, classrooms, daycares and other group settings.

 

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