Special Needs and overcoming obstacles

This video provides the three key problems that special needs kids can face and how they can overcome these obstacles. Educational specialist Kari Miller, PhD, BCET, lists these issues and provides some helpful advice for parents.
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Children who have special learning needs really have three problems that get in their way of becoming successful in goods. The first thing is that they learn differently than other kids. The don't learn the way school teaches and because of that, they fall behind. Now they have a second problem. Now they are falling behind, so their academic skills aren't developing as well as they should. That's when the big problem comes. That's when the begin to lose hope. That is when they think school is stupid and they will never learn. School is a waste of their time. Those three problems stand in the way of special needs kids to be successful in school, and something needs to be done about it. Educational therapies are a good approach when kids have those three problems. Educational therapy knows how to fill in the gaps for kids who have fallen behind. Educational therapists know how to address kids learning needs from the standpoint of what a child really needs to learn to do. Educational therapy can help a child to believe in learning again.

This video provides the three key problems that special needs kids can face and how they can overcome these obstacles. Educational specialist Kari Miller, PhD, BCET, lists these issues and provides some helpful advice for parents.

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Kari Miller, PhD, BCET

Educational Specialist

Dr. Kari Miller, PhD, BCET is a board certified educational therapist and director of Miller Educational Excellence, an educational therapy center in Los Angeles, CA.  She educates students who have complicated learning needs due to issues such as attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities and autism.  She is the host of the popular Blogtalk radio show, Special Kid School Talk, which helps parents raise their special needs children to be academically successful.

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Children who have special learning needs really have three problems that get in their way of becoming successful in goods. The first thing is that they learn differently than other kids. The don't learn the way school teaches and because of that, they fall behind. Now they have a second problem. Now they are falling behind, so their academic skills aren't developing as well as they should. That's when the big problem comes. That's when the begin to lose hope. That is when they think school is stupid and they will never learn. School is a waste of their time. Those three problems stand in the way of special needs kids to be successful in school, and something needs to be done about it. Educational therapies are a good approach when kids have those three problems. Educational therapy knows how to fill in the gaps for kids who have fallen behind. Educational therapists know how to address kids learning needs from the standpoint of what a child really needs to learn to do. Educational therapy can help a child to believe in learning again.