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This workshop is intended to provide participants with information about young adults with learning challenges and other mild intellectual or emotional disabilities. The transition to adult life is full of complexities for all adolescents, but those with these additional learning challenges, who are also responsible for the care of an infant or toddler, need extra support and assistance to acquire successful parenting skills.
Many of us serve the teen parent population, and a certain percentage of that population, as well as young adults may be impaired by ADD or ADHD, a learning disability, problems with memory or attending to task, dyslexia or a very low literacy level. Some may have emotional challenges associated with these impairments and parenting in the midst of these difficulties creates another layer of stress. When we identify this parenting risk, we need to respond to it with thoughtfulness, but with the care of the baby in mind.
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