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Step 1
Spend quantity and quality time with your child. Take some time one on one with your child and focus on getting to know them. The moments together will help you better understand their hopes and dreams.
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Step 2
Identify your child's learning style. If your child is constantly moving, she may be a kinesthetic learner and cannot listen if she is not moving. If he relates to pictures instead of words, he may be a visual learner. Identifying this style will help you understand your child's frustration with a teacher who teaches only to one type of learning style. The instructor may define this as a type of learning disability in your child, but if you change how you define the problem, it might be that it is the teacher who has a type of teaching disability.
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Step 3
Know your child's strengths. Observe your child complete educational tasks and ask them what they like most and least about the task to give you an idea of how they might best be helped.
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Step 4
Be involved in your child's education. Talk frequently with teachers and tutors. You might even consider taking a more active role in their education by doing a unit study or community college class together. You both will be learning the material and about each other as well.
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Step 5
Take notes. Keep certain papers and accomplishments in one place, along with notes you've taken at meetings with teachers and others. Write down your own observations in a log and update it frequently.
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Step 6
Join a support group. You can exchange ideas with other parents like yourself and start to live past the learning disability labels that come with a child who learns differently.
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Step 7
Appreciate that your child is a unique creation and does not have to live up to anyone's standards. Focus on what your child is, not what he is not. Define success in different, positive terms, not what some outside party has determined success should be.
