National Center for Learning Disabilities
The National Center for Learning Disabilities provides information for parents on learning disabilities and attention issues, links for advocacy resources and up to date research on learning disabilities.

Understood
This website provides information on learning disabilities and attention difficulties, including signs of struggles in these areas and recommendations for enhancing students' skills.

LD OnLine
This website contains multiple resources on reading skills, learning differences, study habits and test taking strategies.

Do2Learn —  Specific Learning Disabilitiy
This link contains many strategies for addressing a range of learning difficulties, most of which can easily be implemented at home.

AdLit
This website provides resources and learning strategies for parents of children in grades 4-12.

DLD And Me - Developmental Language Disorder
This website offers support and resources for parents, teachers and individuals impacted by developmental language disorders.

Writing

edHelper — Graphic Organizers Worksheets
This site contains many examples of graphic organizers that can easily be printed to help students develop their writing skills.

Reading Rockets
This link provides recommendations for addressing struggles with handwriting as well as aid for parents of children who experience difficulty developing their writing skills.

Math

LD OnLine — Math & Dyscalculia
This website provides information on learning disabilities in math as well as intervention strategies.

PBS — Difficulties with Mathematics
This website contains information regarding signs of a learning disability in math as well as strategies for addressing difficulties in the area of mathematics.

Kahn Academy
Kahn Academy provides opportunity for students to practice many math concepts as well as view tutorials of concepts they are struggling to understand.

Reading

Skill Building Websites

Starfall
Starfall is an on-line reading curriculum for preschool through early elementary school students.

PBS Kids
This website contains a number of games to help children develop their beginning reading and phonics skills.

Reading Rockets
This website contains information to assist with reading fluency and comprehension.

Read Write Think
This website contains information to assist children, in kindergarten through 12th grade, develop their language arts skills, including reading comprehension.

KidZone.ws — Phonics
This website has links to printable worksheets and activities for building phonics skills.

Informational Websites

Wildd
The Wisconsin Institute for Learning Disabilities/Dyslexia (WILDD) provides remediation, support and outreach for children with Dyslexia.

Dyslexia Achievement Center
The Dyslexia Achievement Center provides screening for Dyslexia and tutoring using the Orton Gillingham approach.

Marquette — Hartman Literacy and Learning Center
Marquette’s Hartman Literacy Center offers a six week summer reading program as well as individual tutoring to support reading development

It should be noted that the above listed programs do have a cost associated with them and the Center for Child Development does not specifically endorse one reading program over another.

International Dyslexia Association
Website for The International Dyslexia Association

Bright Solutions for Dyslexia
This website for Bright Solutions for Dyslexia, Inc., provides information on dyslexia and remediation strategies.

The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity
This website contains a host of information on Dyslexia, such as its signs, how to have it diagnosed, and accommodations to help individuals with Dyslexia.

Books

Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz, MD
A parent friendly book that explains the building blocks of reading, signs and struggles associated with dyslexia, how to have your child tested for dyslexia and remediation programs for Dyslexia.

Books

I Would if I Could by Gordon, M
A brief book about ADHD written from a child's perspective.

My Brother's a World Class Pain by Gordon, M
A book which addresses the issue of being a sibling of a child with ADHD.

Putting on the Breaks: Young People's Guide to Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder by Quinn and Stern
This book is written for children entering adolescence.

A Bird's-eye View of Life with ADD and ADHD: Advice from Young Survivors by Zeigler and Zeigler
This is one of the few books written for teens with ADHD by teens with ADHD.

Driven to Distraction by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey
This book provides an empathic and strength-based model of ADHD.

Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention, A Book for Kids About ADHD by Kathleen Nadeau and Ellen Dixon
This book is a child-friendly book to explain ADHD.

Taking Charge of ADHD by Russel Barkley
This book contains education on ADHD and step by step behavioral interventions for parents to utilize.

101 School Success Tools for Students with ADHD by Jacqueline Iseman, Stephan Silveraman, and Sue Jeweler
This book provides tools to help children with ADHD be successful in different environments.

Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons that Medicine Cannot Teach by Vincent Monastra
This book provides parents with a framework for building parent management strategies.

How to Reach and Teach Children with ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies and Interventions by Sandra Rief
This book is intended for teachers and parents, it includes real life case studies and intervention plans for children with ADHD.

School Success for Kids with ADHD by Stephan Silverman, Jacqueline Iseman, and Sue Jeweler
This book helps parents of children with ADHD build on their strengths and overcome areas of weakness.

Late, Lost and Unprepared: A Parent's Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning by Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Laurie Dietzel
This book provides supports that parents can put into place to help address children's struggles in the area of executive functioning.

Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary Executive Skills Approach to Helping Kids Reach their Potential by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
This book provides a framework for supporting areas of struggle commonly seen in children with ADHD.

Websites

ADDitude — ADHD Science & Strategies
This site offers information on ADHD as well as learning supports and accommodations.

NASP
This site provides information on behavioral interventions that lead to the largest improvements in social skills and school performance for children with ADHD.

CHADD
CHADD is the largest national association for children and adults with ADHD.

LD OnLine
This website provides information on ADHD and how it impacts children at home, school and socially.

Do2Learn
This website provides free charts that can be printed to aid in task completion and behavioral compliance.

ADDA
ADDA is a national parent support association for parents of children with ADHD.

American Academy of Pediatrics
This website provides education on ADHD from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Nemours KidsHealth — ADHD in Kids & Teens
This site provides information on ADHD in teens.

Empowering Parents
This site contains many free charts for parents to download and print for aid in developing behavioral compliance programs.

About Kids Health
This website contains a wealth of information on ADHD, ranging from diagnosis to treatment.

Books

Freeing Your Child From Anxiety by Tamar Chansky
This book provides information on anxiety as well as strategies to help your child manage and reduce their anxiety.

Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child by Katharina Manassis
This book provides parents with strategies to help their child manage anxiety both at home and school.

Websites

National Institute of Mental Health
This website provides information on a number of mental health concerns, including symptoms associated with various mental health diagnoses and treatment options.

Children's Resource Center-Southeast
The Southeast Regional Center serves families of children with severe and chronic conditions; they are available to answer questions about education concerns, funding options, transition issues, diagnosis-specific information and more.