Homework Strategies for Children with Learning Disabilities

Picture this — you are sitting at the kitchen table helping your child with LD do her homework. You try your best to keep her focused, but even something as minor as sharpening a pencil can make her concentration go down the drain. Sound familiar? Getting a child with LD to do their homework can be tough. There are several strategies that parents can use to help with homework completion including five-minute fun breaks, homework completion reward chart, playing soft music, having your child quiz you instead of quizzing them, and keeping homework supplies together in a special box.These tips and ideas from our readers might help. Source: Article by Lindsay Hutton, Family Education