Most children view the end of summer with mixed feelings, but many are happy to be back in school.
Many children with learning disabilities, however, face the opening of school with considerable trepidation. For them, the adjustments to new teachers, new levels of work, new expectations, are not always tinged with the excitement of potential new adventures. A number of youngsters with learning disabilities will have had a summer very little removed from school. Some will have attended summer courses, others will have been tutored regularly and yet others will have been to camps, but camps involving academic activity. The following can be helpful to parents and teachers in charting the course of the school year for their children.