Caroline Richter, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Psychology, says learning disabilities are common, and there are many ways for parents to ...

Parenting a child with a special need, whether a physical disability, a learning delay, an emotional challenge, or a developmental disorder, may require the acquisition of specific skills, such as ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. Whether their child has ADHD, a learning disability or autism, parents of kids with special needs yearn ...

MIAMI - Parent to Parent of Miami has served as a resource center for parents who have children with disabilities in Miami-Dade County for 38 years. "It is an organization close to my heart and so ...

“I don’t understand what’s so hard about being a parent of a child with a disability,” a family member informed me the other day. “It’s not like YOU have to deal with ADD. Or anxiety. Or depression.

School is already hard enough, but when a child tries to navigate it while managing a physical or mental health condition, it ...

Parents and teachers can help blind, deaf children learn through touch, Braille and step-by-step teaching, using ...

While the recent months have been a flurry of news around education, we’re becoming distracted from the very real challenges students are facing in the classroom. Because when speaking with parents, ...

For the nearly 60% of Wisconsin's youths who say they've dealt with at least one mental health challenge in the last year, prioritizing academic success and social connections may fall to the wayside ...

“Jessica,” the adoptive mother of a third grade student, was shocked when she discovered that her daughter had spent over 100 hours locked in a room alone at her North Carolina public school. School ...