Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities, Inc.

Smart Kids with LD has been such a blessing to me and my family! I have three sons and two were diagnosed with specific learning disabilities when they were younger. As a parent, navigating all the ins and outs of these diagnoses can be overwhelming at times but having Smart Kids provided me with exactly what I needed…resources, information, guidance and the comfort that I wasn’t alone! I cannot thank this organization enough for what they have meant to me as a parent and would highly recommend them to parents, caregivers, families, pediatricians, therapists, intervention specialists, counselors, teachers, administrators and any other individuals who work with and support students with learning differences!

In her early years, we discovered that our youngest daughter had learning disabilities, short term memory being one of them. I had no problem acknowledging the situation. I did struggle with understanding just what that meant.

Initially, I struggled to understand why she failed to complete simple tasks like emptying the bathroom wastebasket despite being reminded every morning. Then I realized that she could only remember up to three tasks at a time. I adjusted my approach. I used simple sentences with no more than two tasks per sentence. I was mindful that a single sentence ending with “have a good day” translated into an extra task or direction. If it was the fourth one, it wiped her memory clean of all four.

Today, our daughter is facing a similar diagnosis for our grandson. Despite her own success overcoming her LD challenges, she struggles with her son’s needs. This puzzled me.

Over the years, I’ve kept in touch with Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities (SKLD), often referring friends and colleagues to the nonprofit as a valuable source of information and support. Now, I find myself reaching out to them again, but this time for my daughter. They now have parent groups enabling the exchange of information, peer to peer. They are still especially helpful as a supportive advocate and resource for those dealing with pushback from school districts. Now, I can tell you honestly that SKLD even provides support and resources for grandmothers, long since done with battling schools and teachers.

For me, SKLD is like a guiding light through the darkness of fear, uncertainty and the challenges of learning disabilities. I’ve already shared articles and videos with my daughter. I hope one day she feels the same pride I felt when she graduated from high school, then four years later as she walked across the stage at her university’s commencement to receive her bachelor’s degree.

Whenever I read the Smart Kids with LD newsletters or blog posts, they are spot-on, timely, and helpful! Their website is full of useful information and easy to navigate. I'm so happy I found Smart Kids to help me be a better advocate for my smart kid!

Listening to the professional psychiatrists and psychologist at Smart Kids with LD's presentations supplied me with new information on topics that I never knew. I believe this information could help parents address issues for their children with more facts.

My daughter has dyslexia and dysgraphia. She struggled in school. I am very thankful for the resources I obtained through Smart Kids, the presentations I attended especially as she prepared to go to college. It was wonderful to hear success stories and the experiences of other parents. My daughter is thriving in her job and although math and reading don’t come easy, she uses many learning strategies to help her success.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities provides up-to-date information to families about Learning Disabilities. They have an excellent website which contains many informative articles written by well-known experts. They also send out a free newsletter to subscribers. This site is especially helpful for families who are looking for more information after their child is diagnosed with a Learning Disability.

Smart Kids with LD is the only organization of its kind in our area. It is an invaluable resource in our community for information for parents and children about how to navigate the IEP process, get cutting-edge info on ADHD and dyslexia and access specialists in our area. The organization raises awareness about learning disabilities and has proved to be a place I can go to in order to better understand my own daughter with dyslexia and get her the best help possible.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities is driving a great initiative to help kids and parents in need. Team is very motivated to the mission to help the community. Smart kids' relentless effort to overcome all the challenges including the latest one, Covid, is really commanding.

SmartKids offer an opportunity for every parent and educator to learn more about kids with learning differences. There is a mound of information on the website as well as local regular programming and events. I found SmartKids many years ago when going through the IEP process with my daughter and getting frustrated with the system and the jargon. All of the resources that I found through their website and their Executive Director were extremely helpful.

A very helpful resource and a great team of support!

This is a fabulous nonprofit. I am a professional in the field - a teacher first, and then an educational consultant working with LD students. Additionally, I was a volunteer and am currently on the professional advisory board. This organization informs and educates parents hungry for ways to understand their children's learning profile through an online presence and through workshops, lectures, informal chats, and answering questions directly through the website and privately. It honors and supports LD students who have shown their exceptional abilities at the Annual Gala. It works to educate parents with experts in the field. All of the above is done with expertise and empathy and parents are grateful when they discover this amazing resource. As am I.

Warm, intelligent advice for parents, most resources are online so really easy to access and super easy to understand. The in person programs have been so helpful - I meet parents, educators, and school administrators at them. The annual Walk really unites the local community in a beautiful way. I became involved after receiving incredible help as a parent of a smart kid with learning disabilities.

This organization is such a support system - free!!!! - for parents and children navigating the educational system and addressing the needs to overcome learning issues.

When I was told my 7 year old would never read, I spent 5 years fighting and making sure the public schools in Westport, Ct. were addressing her specific needs and TEACHING HER TO READ.

I was fortunate the I had the time and was not afraid to confront and disagree with the established system.

I was alone.

My 35 year old daughter has 3 college degrees: physics, engineering and an MBA; she has an executive job AND does not have tapes in her head telling her she is dumb.

What SMARTKIDS W/LD does is give parents the tools to make the system work for them; what they are legally ENTITLED to from the system. and it is always a 2 prong approach: you will get the assistance you need and you are smart! You will achieve! We are proud of you!

I am thrilled that Jane Ross invented a non-profit the gives this gift to our community that I struggled alone to invent and implement.

I could not pass on my hard learned information - diagnosed with ADD when I was 47 ( scant executive skills )in the middle of helping my dyslexic kid - but very happy to volunteer with this organization that could pass on lessons learned.

What SMARTKIDS W/LD achieves on a small budget, the breath of it's reach, the lives it changes is truly astonishing. I cannot imagine many nonprofits are so measurably successful.

This organization offers so many free resources for families from amazing experts.

Smart Kids is an amazing organization that has provided support for me as a parent as well as provided guidance and resources to help my family navigate the world of special education!

I was introduced to this organization through a friend whose son was having trouble in school and who thought highly of Jane's work. There is no doubt that these angels in SMART KIDS
are doing the entire world a huge favor, All children must be met and taught at the level they are at and not forced to be something they are not. Smart Kids gets that and many have gone on to do great things, to success in their own eyes, as well as the world's eyes. All because this group exists. More power to them and more help and understanding from the world at large, please.

Fantastic organization. Runs invaluable programs to help children with learning differences succeed by educating and empowering their families. Also runs the Youth Achievement Awards to recognize young people who have overcome challenges and achieved success, in order to inspire others to believe in themselves.

Extremely helpful resources for families with children with learning differences and/or ADHD. They do a wonderful job with their Newsletter and programs. And it's all free!

Smart Kids provides an amazing amount of free support despite having limited resources. They provide a critical link to needed information for parents of children with learning challenges. They also provide great motivation by highlighting the successes and strengths of so many kids with learning disabilities. Love this organization!

It is amazing to watch the work of people in an organization who live their work. I admire this organization for working in the sheer heart of their mission minus ostentation. I attended a Smart Kids With Learning Disabilities gala a year I did not know a soul in the organization and let feeling like I was among friends. The board members were present; however, they did not impress their "status" upon me. Rather, they were sincerely grateful for all in attendance. Moreover, the success stories I heard that evening were real and traceable, not at all bloviated. Jane Ross and team put together the most informative author visits. I am a fan of Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities enough to open my wallet, something not taken lightly by a frugal person.

S.D. Harris

Smart Kids has help my daughter with resources and strategies that helped her to be successful. Thanks for all that you do!!

Working with this organization has been a joy for both me and my daughter. We meet many families with stories like ours. We get much more than we give!

This group has been a game changer for me and my family. The first sponsored seminar I went to by SKLD, was incredibly validating, moving and informative. I continue to learn, grow and be able to get my child more suitable help, because of the resources and information given at these speaking engagements held by the group.
I am looking forward to the support group they are starting up soon. It will be a great addition to the tremendous amount of resources they already share.

As a special education teacher at a local high school, I can't say enough good things about having this resource at my fingertips! I share many stories and especially video's of kids with disabilities to my students. They can relate and it opens up many interesting discussions.
I also use and forward other resources the website provides; articles of interest for both teachers and parents. Highly recommended!

I am a parent of a child with ADHD and and occupational therapist that works with children with a variety of disabilities /Challenges.

Smart kids has helped me in many ways. It has helped me understand areas of development, transition and growth for children with learning disabilities. I have told all my friends about this wonderful website and all the amazing information that they share. I visit the website often and refer to it often in conversation with parents and peers.

As the mom of 2 boys with LDs I find the articles, insights and resources to be so incredibly helpful. Most importantly I know I’m not alone and there’s a community working to help our children.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities is a tremendous resource for our family. Each of our children has various needs so we read all of the articles. It covers a broad range of topics in a way that is easy to understand and give us ideas to implement. I would highly recommend this nonprofit.

I am beyond impressed with SmartKids. Every seminar I have attended has been transformational in our journey, accelerating our learning curve and helping us get the support and understanding we need. Jane Ross and her team have incredible access to the top people in the field, who generously share their knowledge to help us find our way. With so many school systems unable to cope with and/or in denial of learning differences, we parents are left on our own to figure out why our children are not blossoming in the structures of traditional education. Smart Kids has given me the tools to advocate for my child’s right to access their education and to honor their super powers and open the doors to their growth in their areas of strength. There is no better gift.

Wonderful resource on sending me information that can help me become more knowledgeable as an advocate and parent to my child.

A great reference and so wonderful to be on this journey with our bright children with learning disabilities with other parents who care so much.

Smart Kids changed everything for us. Resources, events, community, support and hope. We are extremely grateful for all Jane and team's hard work.

My daughter had a stroke two days after she gave birth to my grandson. His development was a bit delayed but it was obvious even in preschool that he was very bright. We had him evaluated by several different programs, but we were still not able to get him much help for his dysgraphia and ADHD. Your nonprofit newsletter was a voice In the wilderness for us as we continue to advocate for his needs. Thank you and keep up the good work you do.!

As a parent of a son w/ dyslexia and add, I was glad to be introduced to smart kids by a friend and am now on their board. The SKLD web site and articles are so informative. I have referred many other friends to the web site and they often say how grateful they are and how helpful the site is.

As a tutor of children with dyslexia, I make sure that my students' parents know about Smart Kids With Learning Disabilities--I send them the link as soon as I start working with their child. It is an invaluable resource for my families!

The information they disseminate is powerful and life changing.

Smart Kids With Learning Disabilities provides a website with information that is potent and almost indispensable for about 15% - 20% of parents if they hope to raise a successful child. This information is invaluable for parents raising a child with ADHD, dyslexia, or any of several other learning disabilities. The incidence of ADHD is about 10% of the population, and dyslexia has a similar incidence. Unfortunately, schools are designed appropriately for about 50% - 60% of the population, leaving the other children and their parents unsuccessful. The Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities website fills the gap by providing much needed information to parents of kids who as otherwise neglected by schools.

I am a learning disabilities consultant for an urban public school district. The Smart Kids With Learning Disabilities sites has helped me and the parents as well as the students that I service tremendously. I love the periodic newsletters I receive in my email letting me know of success stories, new programs/tools/strategies and new emerging research and/or reads. My parents, teachers and students have benefited greatly from the many strategies and new information I have gained from the site that I have turnkey for them. I highly recommend this site for anyone interested in learning about the disabilities covered under IDEA and strategies/recommendations to use when working with students/children with exceptional needs.

Not only do they publish an excellent newsletter that informs and inspires, but their free lectures are the best I've ever intended and provide information not readily available elsewhere. In this day and age, when the cuts to special education keep going deeper, this organization is needed now more than ever.

I think they are doing a great job at bringing different resources and speakers tone special education population-
It has been a fantastic resource

Smart kids has made the difference in supporting programs with experts in the field who are objective and willing to go the extra mile. Their newsletters are very informative and they even host leadership conferences. Truly dedicated staff. Highly recommended.

I have been involved with Smart Kids for 11 years. I joined when my then 7 year old son was struggling so badly in school that he would physically shake with anxiety, was unable to focus at all in school, was incapable of making friends. Because of the support I found in this organization, plus the invaluable and practical information it provided to me, my son is now attending a well-respected college and receiving straight A's! Smart Kids told me he could get there and without their support, I am not sure he would. Thank you Smart Kids!

I have found this organization to be so helpful as I have navigated life with two ADHD boys. Their articles are insightful and timely and their advice is practical. I highly recommend them to everyone I know who also has smart kids who struggle because of ADHD.

This is an awesome organization! I first saw their newsletter in a speech therapist office waiting room...Yes it was a paper copy then. I was amazed at how the articles were talking about MY son! I really thought no other child has his issues...what's wrong with my son. But here in black and white this newsletter was talking about the same issues my son struggled with. Each month when I got the newsletter in the mail I would drop what I was doing and read it front to back. It was a life saving resource and I do mean this literally! It changed my entire outlook and armed me with so many valuable resources. I can't say enough about them. Joanna Kline (son Jesse Kline was the 2007 Smart Kid Award Winner).

I have gotten a lot of useful information from the emails that are sent that include links to resources that I have used and have made a difference.

This organization has posted many articles that have helped me become more informed on being the best advocate I can be to help my child with learning disabilities and ADHD. Thank you.

My 8yr old son was diagnosed with non-verbal learning disorder earlier this year, and I was desperate to find any and all resources I could to learn more about how his brain works, how to communicate with others about NLD, and most importantly, how to help him. Smart Kids has been a wonderful resource for our family and his school, and one of the only resources I've found with targeted information about NLD. I have passed this website on to family members, other parents, and educators. Thank you for this comprehensive resource!

I teach technology and Engineering in middle school. I do not remember how long I have subscribed to SKWLD but it has been an invaluable tool to me and my student/parents. The information and research, have led me to many solutions in the classroom for my struggling students as well as my accomplished. One blog and e-news I will keep for years to come.

Where do you go in a world of typical learners? This website has been a source of educational material as well as a location to read stories to know we are not alone on this atypical academic road. Start as early as you can and learn as much as you can so you can carry your "learning differenced " child to college and beyond

I love receiving the email newsletters from Smart Kids! I read it every time I get them and I share the information with my family and teachers. I have a son who has multiple learning disabilities and was diagnosed of ADHD at the age of 4. Since he started elementary school, he was also diagnosed with emotional disability, speech/language delay, sensory disability, and executive functioning disability.

When I first learned about my son’s diagnosis of ADHD, it was very overwhelming. I had no idea the magnitude of how ADHD and other learning disabilities can affect one’s life. I imagined that no matter how much I read about it and talked to teachers and parents who have gone through the same challenges, that there would be an easy fix. My son is now 7 years old and we are still continuing to see these challenges. It’s a lot better now than where we first started. Thanks to the support of Smart kids, family and friends, and teachers in our community.

Smart kids has been a huge impact on my life as I read the newsletters and visit the website often searching for answers and clarification. The information on the website is empowering and gives me hope that my son can excel in school and in life with his multiple disabilities. I’m not alone in this journey. I’m just one of many parents who have daily challenges. The website is a wonderful, smart, genius non-profit hub that I will continue to support as new information is always presented from a professional, educational, clinical, and research background that I respect.

I have taken so many notes from Smart kids and I appreciate very much what a great job you are all doing. Keep up the great work!

Thank you!

Our son was basically left on our own resources by his school after a farce of a PPT meeting. I was intoduced by accident to SKLD at a presentation at my library. I was introduced to a myriad of resources that I only wished I had known of 5 years earlier! Through them, we found a means to have him tested and then a therapist. We also found out how approach then school after endless road locks were thrown in our path.

Smart kids is a wonderful organization that was started to empower parents of children with different learning styles . The information is most helpful in giving tips on how you can help your children and gain support for yourself in parenting in a somewhat difficult landscape . The more you know the more you are empowered to help your child. It has been such a huge help for me in parenting my son with ADHD and learning disabilities . I encourage everyone to check it out.

I have received emails from smart kids and I tell you, the information that is presented is always on time and relevant to my needs. I have a child with a learning disability. It's a GREAT resource and I hope to always have access. Thank you

When you have a child with a learning disability you spend a great deal of time researching and trying to find information to help your child. Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities puts it all together in one website. It's a great resource for parents.

Smart Kids has helped me as a parent access important information for my child to succeed in school. Experts who are in the field of education and parenting have helped me be the most supportive parent of my ADHD child I can be. And what I learn is part of a continuum!

Consistent, high-quality articles that educate parents on issues of concern for their children with Learning Disabilities and/or ADHD. They often have a unique viewpoint that I haven't found elsewhere. I feature their work often on the Pinterest page about ADHD that I manage. My only regret is that they don't feature pictures, so I have to create a poster each time I Pin from the site. The content, however, is worth the extra work.

I'm sure every parent who suddenly finds out their child has special needs does what we did; look for information, understanding and support. We found it at SKWLD and are very grateful for their work. It helps to give our child's difference a validation.

Smart Kids provided a life line at a time when our family needed it most. Our son was struggling significantly in school, and his needs were not being addressed successfully. We found a supportive community in Smart Kids and the research provided within the newsletters offered answers to some of our questions. Also, inspirational stories of adults with learning disabilities who achieved success offered comfort and hope to our son at a critical time in his life.

I can't recall how I learned about the website Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities, but I am so grateful that I did. I've found it full of informative articles about the issues that my children are dealing with, articles that not only provide great insight into their struggles, but also suggest helpful steps for dealing with them. This is a well-organized, obviously carefully thought-out site. Keep up the good work!

My son is profoundly dyslexic and has auditory processing issues. Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities is a great resource for parents trying to identify if their child has a LD and how to connect with others with LDs. with Smart Kids there is no reason for a parent to navigate the tricky waters of ensuring that his/her child gets everything that necessary for success in life. My son was the recipient of last year's Fred Epstein Award given by Smart Kids and he couldn't have been prouder. The gala was an amazing opportunity to meet so many accomplished people with LDs. It really had a positive impact on him.

Our son has had an IEP (for ADD and language processing challenges)since pre K, and with the help of the resources including electronic newsletters as well as numerous lectures offered by Smart kids-we have had a lot of help navigating this journey.
He is now in 5th grade and totally mainstreamed and in the mix. He has to work much harder than his typical siblings but is so proud of his own accomplishments which have exceeded our expectations by far. He is his own best advocate now!

Smart Kids With Learning Disabilities has been a tremendous Blessing and resource for my family and I as we navigate our way through our daughters special education process! It is so encouraging to know that there are other families who are facing the same or similar struggles!! It has given us so many avenues to help us during our fight to keep our daughters IEP intact!! We are so grateful for this organization!!

My daughter is "double identified," which in the language of special education means that she is very smart and also has a learning disability that interferes with standard school programming. This child, who would earn scores of over 700 on both the verbal and writing SATs, also has dyslexia. We started requesting--and then fighting for--services from our local, high performing, public school district before she even entered 1st grade. Long story short, Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities provided resources as well as moral support throughout. Right from the first, it was reassuring to know that we were not the only family with a smart kid who needed specific services to learn in certain areas. The name says it all.

As a professional ADHD and Executive Functions Coach, I often refer clients to this wonderful organization. Not only do they provide helpful and timely information, but they provide families compassion and hope. I regularly attend their lectures and read their newsletter to stay up-to-date.

Smart Kids with LD served as an entry into me learning more about my daughter's disabilities and since that time, I have learned much about the world where kids struggle. Smart Kids made me realize that there is hope for kids who just don't learn the way schools want to teach them. Their brains just work different and that is okay. Smart Kids provided a forum for me to understand my daughter's disability and I in turn have tried to help others.

When my son was in middle school, I finally joined an online support group for Los Angeles parents of children with Aspergers, and it was the best thing I could have done for not only my son, but my husband and me. The parents shared resources with us "newbies" who were having difficulties trying to ensure our kids with learning disabilities were still getting a true education, and not just getting babysat all day at school. This site was suggested, and I signed up for the newsletters. From them, and the resources available on the site, I have learned so much about how to focus on my son's strengths, and how to work around or through his weaknesses. The real-life success stories have given me not just hope but different ideas for my son's future. I get a lot of newsletters in my email inbox, and this is one organization whose emails I never just automatically delete. Each one is completely read, and often forwarded to another parent who might benefit from a particular article! Thanks for offering such excellent information!
Tristan's Mom

Great resource for my sons with ADHD, NVLD et al. I find I use their advice with my "neurotypical" kids, too.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities is a wonderful resource for professionals as well as parents. I highly recommend tapping this resource for quick information or in-depth articles.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities was a resource that was definitely helpful for me and my family. It prepared us for my son's IEP meeting by informing us of the accommodations that were available to us.
It's always a great resource for me when I'm needing to be more informed about what to do next in regards to my son's academic path.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilies, Inc. is a wonderful site for parents like myself who deal day to day with a child of special needs. I refer to the articles and support that this site provides on a regular basis. I have also referred this site to many of my friends that have LD children and they also find it extremely helpful. I thank them for providing support to those of us who feel we don't always have a place to turn.

Smart Kids With Learning Disabilities and ADHD has been the single most important organization that has helped me as a parent of a child with dyslexia and 3 children with ADHD. The information presented is always clear, understandable, and very empowering to me. With Smart Kids I have found a direction to assist my children and set them on a path to successful school experiences and terrific self awareness. And the information keeps coming, so the learning never stops.

Smart Kids provides very informative news letters and
offers various programs. I have attended some of their
Events and found them to be very helpful for our
Family. As we are moving towards college I am sure
I will be searching out information to help make our
sons journey an easier one. Knowledge and support makes a
difference. Thank you Smart Kids.
Nancy

I often feel as though the newsletters are written with my family in mind. Smart Kids is an insider's view that addresses issues in a research-based, compassionate way. I get a lot of support from this newsletter and have recommended it to many other families.

I am a mother of two dyslexic children, and I am always in search of learning more about dyslexia, but also about all learning disabilities. Thanks to Smart Kids e-mails; knowledge is power. I will always continue strive to be the best parent I know how. Because understanding my kids worlds help us to be a better family.

Both my boys are diagnosed ADHD. This group helps me to understand their learning differences and how best to parent them in a system that does not accommodate these differences. It has been a great resource for me.

I am a mother of a dyslexic child. My daughter is a senior in high school and looking toward college. The personal experiences shared by learning disabled college students on Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities website has been very insightful. I appreciate their honesty and know I can help my daughter in not only selecting the right university but also be successful while there. I can't tell you how many articles I have read that make me cry both from knowing that I'm not alone and finally having some answers. Thank you!

This group provides hope and newsletters with different forms of help. One that I received several months ago involved Amazon. I purchase a lot from Amazon and I did not realize that I could sign up for Amazon Smile and 5% of my purchases would go to support the charity of my choice.

Thanks SmartKids for all do for parents to let us know we are not alone.

This group continues to help me immensely by keeping me up to date on parenting, resources and support as a parent of a son who has ADHD.

This site is an excellent resource for professionals and parents. I have been working in the field of oral and written language disorders for over 25 years. Additionally, I am a parent of a child with learning disabilities and this site has helped me as a parent resource. Thank you.

I am a mother of two dyslexic children with my oldest embarking on her high school career and college exploration. The personal experiences shared by learning disabled college students on Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities website has been very insightful. I appreciate their candor and know that it will help serve my daughter in not only selecting the right university but also be successful once there! Thank you!

My experience in the last 35 years has been as a special education teacher and Learning Disabilities Consultant in NJ. In addition, I have a close relative with LD and ADHD. As President of the Learning Disabilities Association of NJ, I have found Smart Kids with LD to be a good resource for parents and professionals. Additional resources in NJ can be found on the LDANJ website at www.ldanj.org

I have raised 3 children with dyslexia and related learning disabilities and am now an Orton-Gillingham reading tutor. I have read the Smart Kids newsletter for many years and find each issue to be excellent. Topics are always relevant and timely. It functions as an online support group for me and I am most grateful to those who publish it. I have referred many people to it!

I am a Reading Specialist with over twenty years of experience. However, when our youngest grandson was diagnosed with multiple learning challenges, my quest for information moved beyond professional and academic to personal. Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities offers timely, relevant information; I am never disappointed. I also feel the newsletter manages to convey a sense of optimism and encouragement, which is so vital to families with children with special needs.

I have subscribed for over a year and look forward to each newsletter for all the great information that it always has. We found out our daughter had dyslexia about a year ago and I had no knowledge of what that really was or how to help her. Smart Children with LD helped me so much in getting her the right kind of help and was so helpful when I was getting her IEP. I'm not sure I would of been able to get through all of that without this wonderful resource. I'm always recommending this site to anyone I meet with children who have Dyslexia or ADHD, it's so much helpful information.

Excellent resource full of timely and relevant information. Helps me to help my son in numerous ways: Explanations of LD/ADHD, IEP info and advice, homework and summer help, stories from parents and students... This is the resource I turn to when I have a question. Also love getting updates and news in my inbox and liking on Facebook page means I can share things with friends and increase awareness about LD/ADHD. It was also recommended by my son's specialists at Tufts Medical Center for Children with Special Needs. Thank you!!

I was a desperate mother looking for answers , help and most of all , a light at the end of a tunnel ! Smart kids with learning disabilities gave me that light and filed my heart with hopes and strength to help my 10 year old daughter live with her disabilities in a easier way .

I have been a subscriber to the newsletter for one year. I subscribed because my 8yr old gifted son seems like he has ADHD and I wanted to learn more about the disorder. I had never heard of twice exceptional and was having difficulty understanding how my son could be so smart in some areas but seem so challenged in others. Through the newsletter I read accounts of others like him, learned of accommodations to try, and how to advocate on his behalf with the school.

I am an ADHD Coach and and a parent of a child with ADHD/LD. I have found the experts who are invited to speak at special meetings very well-informed and excellent presenters. Jane Ross has worked tirelessly for well over a decade to provide meaningful, up-to -date information for those of us who struggle everyday with the special challenges our children face.

I am a Sylvan Learning Center Director in Jackson, MS. I am always searching for information and websites to share with our Sylvan families. I find this site user friendly and very informative. I recommend it very frequently to be used as a resource. Our philosophy at Sylvan is "the more you know the better prepared you are to make decisions about your child." This website is fantastic!

As the mother of a newly diagnosed 10 year old dyslexic, I was lucky to find SKLD. Their informative articles are full of helpful information and fantastic links to resources and research. Their Facebook page is one of my 'must haves' !

I've written profiles of individuals with learning disabilities for the newsletter published for Smart Kids with LD. As Executive Director, Jane Ross constantly has her eye out for how she might inspire both kids and their parents with real life stories, depicting their most discouraging failures overcome by an attitude of never giving up. These stories are about individuals as young as 8 years and as accomplished as a Pulitzer Prize winner. The moral is nearly always the same. No matter how ordinary or extraordinary that you are, you must find your passion and you will succeed. And success can be defined in so many different ways. Both parents and kids can find hope as well as expert resources via Kids with Learning Disabilities, Inc.

Smart Kids provides parents with a wealth of information. Jane Ross is incredibly dedicated to sharing these valuable resources with parents who are trying to make sense of the situation they find themselves in. When you have a child with a disability, you must learn about the disability, you must determine appropriate educational interventions, you must understand special education legislation and you need to know this before you ever begin to negotiate with your school district! Jane's organization provides parents with these tools to advance their knowledge and improve their ability to effectively advocate on behalf of their children with disabilities.

The articles provided in the Smart Kids with Disabilities email newsletter have been very valuable. As a parent with a child with ADHD and Aspergers, I have found many of the articles very helpful with the IEPT process, assisting our son at school, and many other topics that sometimes, I had not thought of. This organization provides very valuable assistance to parents such as myself. It is also very uplifting to read the articles of others who have similar diagnoses and have gone on to be very successful in life. Smart Kids with Disabilities is a wonderful resource.

As the parent of 3 children, 2 with LD, I cannot adequately express my gratitude and admiration for SKLD & Jane Ross.
When my son entered public schools we knew he would be needing more than the typical child. The schools only refused to acknowledge that any problems existed & patronize the overprotective parents. After butting heads with the school system for 3 years and reading everything I could find on the Internet, I finally found Smart Kids.
With SKLD I found support, resources and education. Their only private agenda is to help each child achieve their potential. They help families acquire the information necessary to make educated decisions that are best for their child's needs.
I cannot imagine what the outcome would have been without SKLD but I'm pretty sure it would not have included college and the happy, self assured, creative young man that my son has become.
Because of my involvement with Jane & Smart Kids I am confident that I now have the tools I need to see my young twice gifted daughter through what is sure to be an amazing journey rather than the stressful experience it might have been with out the experiences I have had with Smart Kids with LD over the past 12 years.
THANK YOU JANE & SMART KIDS!!!

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities helped my son when his self-esteem was at its lowest point. SKLD gave my son an award acknowledging his academic abilities and his learning disability. As a parent, it was reassuring to meet other parents with children who had academic abilities and learning disabilities knowing we experienced the same problems with the school systems. I highly recommend Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities as a resource for parents and children.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities has, for years, been an outstanding resource for families, children and clinicians. Smart Kids provides state of the art information regarding learning issues; Smart Kids has an excellent track record of helping parents and students learn about and use tools to work effectively with educators and clinicians.

The Smart Kids web site is a must go-to for help and information.

Excellent resource for parents to help them understand learning disabilities.

Smart Kids with LD helped us balance what we were all trying to understand, as not one child or one family has the same issues. We went to their lectures and rely on the online news letter, which is fabulous, to continue a path for the BEST education that our child deserves and is now receiving. Many thanx. Carol M.

When you have a child who seems so normal but struggles academically you search for answers. Even when you know the answers (multiple learning differences and ADHA) it can be overwhelming. There is tons to learn and understand. (Know your child, know their school, know the law) and SKwLD is that sight. It reminds you that your kid can do it and it gives you real life stories as to how and why. It is a great web sight and I truly appreciate it being available to me

SKLD is a lifeline to parents trying to understand and assist their learning disabled children. They provide a wealth of resources including seminars, newsletters, and family events that educate, inspire and empower. Smart Kids helps you realize that you, your child and family will be ok....and that you are not alone.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities has provided me with resources and guidance that have been extremely beneficial. Smart Kids is a platform that contains a wealth of knowledge including informative newsletters and local programs. Jane Ross, the founder of Smart Kids, is dedicated to supporting parents of children with LD and ADD/ADHD.

I recently learned that my suspicion about my son having ADHD is correct. I am so grateful to SKLD for offering workshops about this because it has helped me to figure out what my son's reality is and how I can help him to function better in this world and at home in order for him to feel confident and successful. Their work is invaluable and very needed. They deserve much praise and support in return because they are helping so many families and their children.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities has been an invaluable group for me. I knew that I was not alone on the crazy journey with my daughter. All of the folks that I have encountered have been so very helpful and have helped me to better support my daughter's needs. I have attended their seminars and the topics have been very pertinent for my family and my friends with children with LD. They are wonderful group of caring individuals who have or are going through the same crazy world of special education.

I can't say enough about this organization. I was immediately impressed at my first meeting by members who shared their experiences and their wealth of knowledge to new parents. It is a warm welcoming environment. As a parent of a LD child and a professional in the field, I find their lectures and educational workshops excellent. They have provided lectures from highly regarded professionals in their fields and have made them easily accessible. The education I have received from these lectures are priceless. The Smart Kids with LD newsletters and emails are extremely helpful. I have gained so much information and knowledge that can be applied everyday.

I have 2 boys and husband with ADHD and was LOST! Being associated with Smart Kids and the lectures they organized gave me my first and most wonderful start. i now feel so educated and well on my way to help this family survive and succeed!

I wish we had found SMART kids with LD much sooner. The straight forward and possitive messages they provide on the web site are sorely needed in a field where so much of the infromation and advice given starts with emphasizing the negative and focusing on learning differences as disabilities and deficits. We found the SMART kids wonderful web site from doing a search for scholarhips for students with LD. I was overjoyed to find a website that was celebrating what my family knows to be true, that dyslexia and ADHD can be a gift and we should celebrate our brain's different way of processing information. Filling out the application for the award was an incredible experience and reminded our family how far we had come from when we first found out our son was carrying on our family's dyslexic legacy. We have recommended the website to all the families we meet that have the challenge of attending a school that is not providing an environment complimentry to our learning differences. This web site reduces long articles written about dsylexia and ADHD into short and straightforward articles, which allow a dyslexic households to learn and act on valuable information and experience!

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities saved my sanity! Both my boys were diagnosed with LD and I was at my wits end. I needed to understand. I used the SKLD website to gather expert information into each of their areas. It not only explained their disabilities but I was beginning to understand my children and how to relate to them. Then came the "Smart Kids" lectures. So, I wasn't alone. There were other families like ours and I was getting practical advise on ways to help my children. SKLD is a wealth of knowledge and inspiration, giving this mom the support and commrodary I need to continue to advocate for my boys with all theur strengths and differences. They truly are SMART kids with learning disablities and bright futures ahead. Thank you SKLD for helping to see me through this journey and to understand the brilliant potential of each of my children.

Smart Kids has the most update to information on all topics and issues related to children with learning disabilities. It has provided me, both personally and professionally, with useful information and inspiring testimonials. I have shared the website and newsletter articles with the parents who come to me for advice. No one has every been disappointed!

Through Smart Kids, I have had the pleasure of meeting terrific parents from CT and NY who have given me great advice. Smart Kids has change the world for parents and their children by raising awareness on learning disabilities. The news letter/website is insightful, timely, and well researched. I love the local educational programs with gifted experts in their fields of study. Smart Kids is a great organization, which I am so very proud to be a part. After all, it takes a community to raise a child; Smart Kids has been my community.

Smart Kids with LDD is the definitive go-to resource in Fairfield County CT! Jane Ross, the founder provides an astonishing lineup of professionals for their lecture series, on every imaginable topic relevant to coping with children with learning disabilities. She guided us in finding advocates and attorneys helpful in getting the school system to provide needed services and testing professionals, as well as hooking us into a network of parents who can provide social and emotional support from shared experience. There really isn't a comparable organization.

The Smart Kids with Learning Disbilities organization provided the professional resources, that created the "Smart Team" of professional . The team of professsional was lead by Margie Gillis, Ed.D., Kenneth Magrath, Pd.D, and Nora Belanger, ESQ,. The dedication and compassion of the "Smart Team" was remarkable, not to mention their brilliant minds. Smart Kids provided the incrediable resources, that changed our sons future. Thanks to Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities parents of children with learning disabilities can dare to dream of a future.

Ten years ago, when my son was struggling to keep afloat during middle school, Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities was my guiding light, providing inspiration and information unavailable anywhere else. I eagerly awaited each issue of the newsletter, knowing there would be an article about a successful adult with learning disabilities that I could share with my son. The knowledge that he was not alone and that other people with similar struggles were able to achieve success provided him, and me, with hope during a very discouraging time in his life. Today, thanks in great part to the information available through Smart Kids, my son is happily pursuing his dream of becoming a nurse. The road has not been easy, but this family will always be grateful to Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities for their role in helping us to help our child succeed.

Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities gave me the information and confidence to realize that I was the only expert on what my child needed to be successful academically. Despite the public school's statement that "he was not college material", he graduated from college with a degree in Diagnostic Genetic Sciences and a minor in Molecular Biology. He is working at Columbia Medical doing research and is starting on his Master's Degree. Thank you Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities!

Two out of my three kids have learning disabilities. Smart kids helped me learn about their specific disabilities through their news letters and their speakers. The information I received opened doors for my kids. I was able to get them tested and find the appropriate accommodations they both needed. Smart kids was and still is my life line. When no one understood what I was going through with my kids, smart kids understood and provided me with support and information. The more I understood how they ticked, the more I understood my child. I was able to approach each situation with patience and not a knee jerk reaction. Today my kids are thriving in their schools and they are very happy. I am so grateful to Smart Kids that I wanted to give back, so for the last 4 yrs I have been volunteering for them.

I turned to Smart Kids when I needed guidance for my child who was just diagnosed with learning disabilities and was struggling in school. Smart Kids was the resource I needed as a parent. The newsletter is an invaluable tool to help parents learn about their child's difficulties and get them the help they need. It also addresses the social aspects of learning disabilities. Smart Kids taught me to celebrate this very gifted and unique child who has overcome so much to succeed. Joining Smart Kids was the first step in securing my son's future.

I have attended many of the Smart Kids programs that have been offered in our area. I have always found them to very helpful. I have referred many of my friends who have children that are struggling with learning issues and ADD to Smart Kids. It is a wonderful organization. Jane Ross is so passionate about the mission of this non-profit. She really works to make sure Smart Kids is a great resource for families that need this type of information. I refer to the newsletters alot and just knowing there is somewhere to turn while trying to get through this difficult journey with my son's learning differences and ADHD is very reassuring.

As a frustrated parent trying to get one of the best school districts in the US to help my child reach her potential I had hit a brick wall. Smart Kids gave me the connections and resources to impact a difference with her and she is now in high school and exceeding all expectations and her self esteem has improved as well. I can't tell you what a valuable resource this organization is not just locally but nationally as well to guide you through a very confusing and painful process.

This is an grassroots organization that continually surpasses our expectations. Two out our three (exceptionally) bright children have learning challenges which could have seriously derailed their emotional, social and academic development . Not so once we discovered the Smart Kids organization. Smart Kids newsletters are phenomenal; a wealth of information on a variety of topics. Smart Kids has the great good fortune to have top experts in the field of learning disabilities "on call" which serves to educate parents and empower them which in turn, strengthens and empowers our kids. If you have a child or children with mild or severe LD issues, this is the "go to" place for you.

The articles that Smart Kids with Learning Disabilites newsletter provides have been very informative and helpful. The articles are written by doctors and experts in the fields of Learning Disabilities. I have two children with different Learning Challenges and have learned to manage some of their struggles through reading this newsletter. This has been the most beneficial source of informationto help me educate myself so that I can help my children with their learning challenges and the struggles that go along with them.

The help and support I have received from Smart kids with Learning Disabilities has been invaluable.

My son was one of Smart Kids' annual National Youth Achievement Award winners. Winning this award was a great boost to my son, who despite his learning disabilities managed to graduate from high school a year early. The award served as an incredible validation that he was capable of great things and that he did not have to be defined by his learning disabilities, a message which he had definitely NOT received from all the usual public school academic outlets. This year Smart KIds celebrated its 10th anniversary with both a gala and a retrospective and invited my son to attend and submit a "Where are they now" video. Being a film/video major my son collaborated with his roommate, also a film/video major, to submit his retrospective. In short, the compliments that he received from the professionals involved in this project, again continued to reinforce the organization's earlier theme at his orignal award ceremony -- the sky is truly the limit!

When my son was five, he was struggling. He was having a difficult time managing social situation, couldn't hold a pencil correctly, refused to go to the top of the slide. However, he was incredibly smart. At first his teachers encouraged us not to worry, that he was just a smart but awkward kid, that all would be well in the world once he found his own. But onthe first day of kindergarden, he came home crying that he was stupid, because he could not formt he firs tletter of his name. I took him to a private occupational therapist, and he began to work on his fine motor skills. But more and more concerns appeared. Anxiety. repetitve behavior. then a friend of mine gave me a copy of Smart Kdis with Learning Disabilities newsletter. Inside was an article about NLD - nonverbal learning disability. Reading it opened a door for me - this was my kid. I joined Smart Kids and got information, and most importantly got my son tested. The diagnosis, NLD. The psychologist was surprised I had heard of it. that was 7 years ago. Now my son is thriving, has friends, makes honor roll. We still have challenges, but Smart Kids gives me the information and inspiration I need to help him conquer them.