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Do you have a child with a disability?

It is really hard to find out that your child has a disability that can affect them in school
as well as in life. This flyer is to help provide different resources and information to help
you understand your childs disability better and learn different ways to help them be
successful.

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Specific Learning Disability
https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/getting-started/what-you-need-
to-know
https://ldaamerica.org/

ADHD
https://add.org/
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-
adhd/index.shtml

Autism
http://fod.infobase.com.byui.idm.oclc.org/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=51760
http://fod.infobase.com.byui.idm.oclc.org/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=86529

Cognitive Impairment (Mental Retardation)

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/parents_pdfs/IntellectualDisability.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/aging/pdf/cognitive_impairment/cogimp_poilicy_final.pdf

Emotional Disturbance
https://www.cdc.gov/aging/pdf/cognitive_impairment/cogimp_poilicy_final.pdf
https://www.naset.org/emotionaldisturbance2.0.html

Hearing Impairment
http://www.hearingloss.org/content/parents-children-hearing-loss
http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/Effects-of-Hearing-Loss-on-Development/

Orthopedic Impairment
http://www.utahparentcenter.org/disabilities/oi/
https://www.naset.org/orthopedicimpairment2.0.html

Other Health Impairment

http://www.lung.org/lung-health-and-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/asthma/?
referrer=http://libguides.byui.edu/c.php?g=381933&p=2588100

Speech and Language Impairment

https://csld.org/
http://www.ldonline.org/article/6336/

Traumatic Brain Injury

http://www.neuroskills.com/brain-injury/#traumatic
https://medlineplus.gov/traumaticbraininjury.html

Visual Impairment
http://web.a.ebscohost.com.byui.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=9e5182dc-03f0-
4e3f-b0cc-
26b5278318e0%40sessionmgr4009&vid=0&hid=4214&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2
ZQ%3d%3d#AN=99525151&db=aph