ACADEMIC RESOURCES

Practicing reading, writing, and math at home helps your child to develop these basic skills. It is recommended to spend 20-30 minutes per day practicing reading and math. Your child's teacher can provide you some specific resources to support the skills being taught in the classroom. Please also click here to go to AEMS's general information page to learn some strategies you can use at home to practice reading and math skills.

Reading - Here are some WORD GAMES you can play with your children to boost reading skills! No materials needed!

Phonological Processing - Playing and practicing with the sounds within words helps build foundational letter sense to support reading. Heggerty has published a Downloadable Guide of 10 Activities to practice with your child targeting sound identification, blending, segmenting, and rhyming.

Math - Play these MATH GAMES that help children practice math skills. These games require no materials!

DEVELOPMENTAL RESOURCES

Language Skills - Questions about whether your child's language skills are developing normally? Check out this resource.

Articulation Skills - Have questions about the progress your child is making with their articulation skills? Please check out this downloadable pdf overview describing what consonants your child should be accurately saying by what age published by the Charles Sturt University - LEARNING ENGLISH CONSONANTS. Another helpful link is the Communication Milestones published by ASHA, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Here is a downloadable explanation of some typical articulation processes/ errors, to help you better understand what may be happening with your child's speech; PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSES.

NH DEPT. OF EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS & SERVICES

NH DOE Procedural Safeguards - This is a handbook that has been developed to provide parents, adult students with disabilities, educators, and others with information about parent/child rights in the special education process. These rights are called “procedural safeguards."

Community Bridges - Community Bridges is a non-profit agency serving families in central New Hampshire affected by disability. Community Bridges supports the integration, growth, and interdependence of people with disabilities in their communities, while promoting and supporting them to live as independently as possible. Here is an OVERVIEW of how they may be able to support your family.

Vocational Rehabilitation - VR New Hampshire is an employment program for individuals who experience a disability. We offer a wide range of vocational rehabilitation services designed to help individuals prepare for, obtain, retain, and advance in employment. See these two publications for more information; a NH VOC REHAB FACT SHEET and their VR TOOLKIT FOR EMPLOYMENT SUCCESS. 

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Home/ Community ABA Therapy - Community Resources in Central NH for ABA Therapy/ Behavioral Programming

Riverbend Community Mental Health - Riverbend Community Mental Health is a private, nonprofit organization offering comprehensive behavioral health and addiction treatment services for children, adolescents, adults, and families in central New Hampshire. To apply, go to their WALK-IN CLINIC.

ADVOCACY GROUPS/ PEER SUPPORT

Parent Information Center - PIC is a statewide family organization that provides families and youth (with a focus on children/youth with disabilities/special health care needs) and the providers who serve them, with the knowledge and support they need to make informed decisions that enhance each child’s development and well-being.  PIC supports collaboration between families, schools, and other community resources. This is a great resource for technical questions.

NH Family Voices - NH Family Voices provides free, confidential services to families and professionals caring for children with chronic conditions and/or disabilities. They offer peer support and resources to support decision making.

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka - The Spirited Child Approach is a research based and strengths-based philosophy that helps parents understand their child's inner temperament while focusing on three concepts—calm, connect, and coach. This book speaks to parent burnout and, in a helpful and supportive manner, offers solutions to that exasperated question, “How am I supposed to stay calm with my child when I’m just trying to survive the moment?”

The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan by Ben Foss - The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan is a practical guide that helps parents to help their child accept, understand and embrace their dyslexia. The book also speaks to a parent’s fear about the difficulties their child may encounter in the greater society. It’s unique in that it reframes dyslexia as a characteristic – a personal trait, much in the same way that blue eyes or stature is.  Packed with practical ideas and strategies dyslexic children need for excelling in school and in life, this empowering guide provides the framework for charting a future for your child that is bright with hope and unlimited potential.

The Dyslexic Advantage by Brock Eide M.D. M.A. and Fernette Eide M.D.  - The Dyslexic Advantage provides invaluable advice on how parents, educators, and individuals with dyslexia can recognize and use the strengths of the dyslexic learning style. The enormous advances in dyslexia research over the last ten years provide valuable new insights for educators, employers, parents, dyslexic adults, and anyone interested in neurodiversity and human cognition.