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 Identifying the Need: When Parents Realize Their LD Child Requires Private Tutoring The route to accepting a learning-disabled child requires individual tutoring tends to begin with small signs that gather momentum over time and eventually become impossible to ignore. Parents typically find their child struggling despite working very hard—taking hours over homework other children do in minutes, becoming increasingly frustrated with schoolwork, or showing a growing resistance to doing schoolwork altogether. Early Warning Signs The most frequent complaint is when the child's grades do not appear to reconcile with their apparently high level of effort or intelligence. A bright child who can discuss abstractions but not write them down, or understand math concepts but consistently compute incorrectly, raises a red flag. Teachers may report that the child seems off-task, completes work too quickly, or seems to understand in class but performs poorly on examinations. Emotional signs ten...

 Due Diligence: Why it Pays to Investigate Private Tutors for Your Child with Learning Disorders When your child suffers from learning problems, the stakes for achieving the best educational help could not be higher. Unlike regular academic tutoring, helping a child with learning disorders requires special expertise, patience, and understanding that not every tutor possesses. Thorough research before you hire ensures you're entrusting your child's education to somebody actually qualified to make a difference. Verifying Specialized Credentials and Training Learning disorders demand evidence-based treatment that is far different from typical tutoring practices. Investigating a tutor's background shows whether or not they have appropriate certification in special education, learning disabilities, or a particular methodology such as Orton-Gillingham for dyslexia or Applied Behavior Analysis for autism. Tutors often report experience with special needs without specialized traini...