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Parent Workshops:

Thursday, September 28, 2000

Finding the Balance between Advocacy and Excuses: Helping your child with a Learning Disability

Lopez High School Auditorium, 3205 S Dakota Avenue, Brownsville, Texas  

10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 

Presenter: Ann B. Welch, M.A., M. Ed., Educational Consultant, Earlysville, West Virginia

Presenter: Ann B. Welch, M.A., M. Ed. Ann B. Welch has over twenty years experience as a special education teacher specializing in Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.  She received the Council for Exceptional Children’s prestigious Teacher of the Year award in 1993.  Since then, she has spoken to thousands of parents, teachers, and administrators at conferences, workshops, and classes.  Ms. Welch is a popular speaker who combines current information with practical, real-world view of the home and the home and the classroom.

Topic: 

It is difficult for parents to know how to help a child who is having problems in school.  Parents may err on the side of demanding too much or too little (or their children and of the school). Sometimes the kind and amount of help that is necessary at one time in a child’s life is too little or too much at a later time.  This session will help parents to find the balance between advocacy and excuses.  Parents will learn questions and strategies to help them support their child’s achievement while encouraging independence and self-advocacy.  The session will be appropriate for parents with learning problems, whether or not the child has been identified as having a learning disability.