<p>m-s, there are a lot of resources out there. There was an absolutely superb website and bulletin board sponsored by the Schwab foundation for the parents of kids with disabilities for 10 years that alas is defunct. I learned a lot from it and from the parents on it. A company called greatschools.net has taken it over. Not nearly as good but all the archived conversations are there (including lots of information on things like how to get accommodations for the SATs). In addition, some of those parents have moved to a site called millermom (not sure who miller is, actually) – the link is [Learning</a> Disabilities (LDs), ADHD and Education Support, The<em>SAFE</em>Site - Home](<a href=“http://millermom.proboards.com/index.cgi]Learning”>Home | Learning Disabilities (LDs), ADHD and Education Support, The*SAFE*Site). There is another site from which I get emails ([Wrightslaw</a> Special Education Law and Advocacy](<a href=“http://www.wrightslaw.com%5DWrightslaw”>http://www.wrightslaw.com)) and a community spedpac in a Massachusetts town that has a nationally recognized yahoo group called conspedpac.</p>
<p>There are no magic bullets (or if there are, no one gave us any). But, you can learn a lot from the parents who know what is out there.</p>
<p>Oh, and in the small success piles, my son with the speech delay and dyslexia went 3-1 in a debate tournament against teams from Harvard, Penn and Brandeis. And, he and his co-author are close to completing their novel and at an author’s conference this weekend, a very good agent gave the co-author constructive verbal and then written feedback and appeared quite solicitous about representing them. You and your kid’s teachers have to make sure that you let her know she is smart and focus on what she is good at as well as her deficits. My son left elementary school and HS with very healthy self-esteem. He knows he is smart and is not embarrassed about being dyslexic. It is just part of who he is.</p>