If your child has a learning difficulty, one of the keys to success for the child is advocacy. Parents can become advocates for the needs of their children. In fact with the proper support and information children can become their own best advocates.
Effective advocacy can only happen in a climate of mutual respect.
This means that we need to act respectfully in all our relationships with all participants in the advocacy process. As parents, educators and practitioners it is very important to teach advocacy skills to the child with a learning difficulty. Be able to understand and describe the learning difficulty You need to know and understand how the child learns best, why the child has difficulty learning certain kinds of information and what will make learning less difficult. It is important to gather all the information that you can about the learning difficulty. Information is Power.