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Dyslexia: Help for families Learning Ally launches personalized support services for parents of children with dyslexia Parent Ally brings new resources for parents of children who struggle to read because of a learning disability. PRINCETON, NJ, August 20, 2013-Learning Ally, a nonprofit organization supporting 300,000 students across the U.S., is now providing parents of children who have learning and reading based disabilities with personalized resources to manage their educational and personal needs. Since it was founded in 1948, Learning Ally has traditionally served families and schools with the world's largest digital library of accessible, human-narrated audio textbooks and literature titles. The new parent support service, called Parent Ally, was developed after years of exhaustive studies focusing on the experiences and urgent needs of families of students with dyslexia and learning disabilities. The new Parent Ally offerings include: • Parent Support Specialists: One-on-one phone consultations between parents and a team of highly trained professionals in a learning disability-related field, who are themselves parents with firsthand experience raising children with dyslexia and print disabilities. Drawing on many backgrounds, the team of Parent Support Specialists includes family advocates, attorneys, teachers, and certified tutors. Their diversity provides a large knowledge base to help parents find resources and tools that address their particular situation. • Member-only webinars: A series of interactive parent training sessions, presented by experts in the field of dyslexia and learning disabilities. These sessions feature small audience sizes and offer extensive opportunities for parents to dia- logue together and pose their own questions to the experts. • The Parent Framework: Providing a pathway of proven strategies that help parents navigate the long-term challenges of raising a child with print disabilities. It includes guidance on how to both manage a child's education and develop her self-esteem and confidence. Parent Ally is included as part of the standard Learning Ally audiobook service membership for free through October 31. For more information visit the Parent Ally resource section on Learning Ally's website. Founded in 1948 as Recording for the Blind, Learning Ally serves over 300,000 K-12, college and graduate students, as well as veterans and lifelong learners – all of whom cannot read standard print due to blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, or other learning disabilities. Learning Ally's collection of more than 80,000 digitally recorded human-read textbooks and literature titles – featuring a heavy emphasis on STEM resources – is delivered through internet downloads, assistive technology devices, and mainstream devices like iPhone and iPad, and is the largest of its kind in the world. Thousands of volunteers across the U.S. help to record and process the educational materials, which students rely on to achieve academic and professional success. Learning Ally, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. For more information, visit www.LearningAlly.org. Enhance your credentials Enhance your credent ial s t d t eg ee. w ith a g raduate de re with graduate degree. Today's teachers address Today's teachers address a wide array of educational o array educational needs in their classrooms.. 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