Strategies for Successful Learning:

• Use Everyday Teaching Opportunities

  Learning doesn't only happen during structured lessons. Use everyday moments—such as mealtime, play, or errands—to encourage communication, problem-solving, and other skills in a natural, low-pressure way.

• Provide Helpful Accommodations

  Small adjustments can make everyday tasks more successful and less frustrating. Adapt expectations or tools to meet your child's needs, such as accepting a one-word response, using adaptive utensils, or choosing clothing and shoes that promote independence.

• Teach at Your Child's Current Level

  Meet your child where they are developmentally and build skills one step at a time. Activities should be challenging enough to encourage growth but not so difficult that they lead to frustration or discourage learning.

• Present information to your child both visually and verbally.

• Encourage your child to communicate any needs and difficulties with their teacher.

• Talk to your child’s teacher regularly about how each day has been going.

  And on that note, ask your child about each and every day!

“Here’s something I start saying to my kids early on: “Did you know that learning is hard? I mean it! Every single time any of us learns something—me, you, everyone—it feels frustrating!”

― Becky Kennedy, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be