Mission statement:
The mission of the SSFS Learning Differences Committee is to learn, reflect, network and share the latest research and information on issues related to learning differences, to foster community awareness and understanding of those with learning differences, and to promote positive change for all learners.

We hope this Web page helps parents of SSFS students navigate the resources available to them.

The Learning Differences Committe will meet on Wednesday, March 19 at 8:15 am in Westview Cafeteria. We look forward to seeing you.

All meetings are scheduled for Westview Dining Hall at 8:15 A.M.

Lecture Series

Lab School
Lecture Series - http://www.labschool.org/content/lectures
Workshops - http://www.labschool.org/files/u1/Workshop_Website_Fall_2008_Booklet_Layout_1.pdf

Stixrud & Associates
Lecture Series - http://stixrud.com/lectureseries.asp
Workshops & other events - http://stixrud.com/workshops.asp

Documentary shown on Public Television: Headstrong: Inside the Hidden World of Dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder
http://www.headstrongnation.org/documentary

LD Resources

• ADDitude: Magazine with Information for adults and children with attention deficit disorder - http://www.additudemag.com/
• CHADD - http://www.chadd.org/
• Dyslexia Parents Resource - http://www.dyslexia-parent.com/index.htm
• Harbour School - Further Resources http://www.harbourschool.org/learning_disabilities.html
• Kingsbury Center - http://www.kingsbury.org/learning_disability/index.asp
• International Dyslexia Association - http://www.interdys.org/
• LDonline - http://www.ldonline.org/
• Learning Disabilities Association of America - http://www.ldanatl.org/
• Learning Disabilities Association of Montgomery County - http://www.ldamc.org/
• National Center for Learning Disabilities - http://www.ncld.org/
• Nonverbal Learning Disorders Assoc. - http://www.nlda.org/
• Resources for People with Learning Disabilities - http://www.ldresources.com/
• Schwab Learning - http://www.schwablearning.org/
• Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities - http://www.smartkidswithld.org/
• Thinkport (A resource for Maryland educators, families, and communities) - http://www.thinkport.org/

E-Newsletters

• Attention Research Update - attentionresearchupdate@helpforadd.com
• Hallowell Connections - http://www.drhallowell.com/#newletter
• Mel Levine - All Kinds of Minds - http://www.allkindsofminds.org/newsletter.aspx
• Schwab Learning (Great Schools) - http://www.schwablearning.org/registration.aspx

Suggested Reading

A Few of Our Favorite Books
Student Support Services at Sandy Spring School
(Jen Cort, Tim Croft, Beverley DiTussa, Julia Docking, Mary K. Fry, Lauren Keller, Marjorie Kramer, Ilene Lees, Nancy Preuss, and Gail Willie)

• A Family Peace Plan by Cynthia Whitham

• A Parent's Guide to Aspbergers Syndrome and High Functioning Autism by Sally Ozonoff, Geraldine Dawson and James McPartland

• Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson

• Delivered from Distraction, Edward Hallowell MD and John J. Ratey, MD

• Eating, Sleeping, and Getting Up: How to Stop the Daily Battles with Your Child by Carolyn Crowder

• Educational Care by Mel Levine

• Get a Clue! A Parents' Guide to Understanding and Communicating With Your Preteen by Ellen Rosenberg

• Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryle to the Mall? by Anthony Wolf

• Good Friends Are Hard to Find by Fred Frankel

• Help Your Child With Homework: The Complete Guide to Encouraging Good Study Habits and Ending the Homework Wars by Jeanne Shay Schumann

• Homework Solution: Getting Kids to Do Their Homework by Linda Sonna

• How to Keep Your Teenager Out of Trouble and What To Do If You Can't by Neil Bernstein

• It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health by Robie Harris

• It's So Amazing a Book That Answers Most Questions Younger Children May Have About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies and Families by Robie Harris

• One Mind at A Time by Mel Levine

• Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shawitz

• Parenting Teens with Love and Logic by Foster Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay

• Putting on the Brakes: Young People's Guide to Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder by Patricia O'Quinn (workbooks also available)

• Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman

• Raising Resilient Children by Robert Brookes and Sam Goldstein

• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls By Mary Pipher, Ph.D.

• Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex By Deborah M. Roffman

• Talking Pictures: A Parents' Guide to Using Movies to Discuss Ethics, Values, and Everyday Problems with Children by Ronald Madison Ed.D, Corey Schmidt

• Teaching the Tiger by Marilyn P. Dornbush, Ph.D and Sheryl K. Pruitt M.Ed.

• The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz

• The Tween Years : A Parent's Guide for Surviving Those Terrific, Turbulent, and Trying Times by Donna G. Corwin

• Understanding Girls with AD/HD by Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen B. Littman and Patricia O'Quinn

The Learning Differences Committee provides this list for informational purposes only. This list is not intended as an endorsement by the Learning Differences Committee or SSFS.