Learning+Disabilities

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The National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD) believes it is essential that educators be prepared to meet the needs of all students, including students with learning disabilities who have unique needs. The NJCLD believes that comprehensive, interdisciplinary programs are necessary to ensure adequate preparation of professionals in education.
 * Learning Disabilities: Preservice Preparation of General and Special Education Teachers**]]  

 [|**The Learning Disabled Child and the Home**]   Parents of children with learning disabilities are tired. In addition to the normal stresses of family life, they are continually working on their child's behalf. They mediate, advocate, intervene, referee, preplan, negotiate, and adapt until they are exhausted. In the meantime, they provide emotional support for their learning disabled child, while trying to balance the attention given him with the attention given the other members of the family. No wonder they are worn out.