Resources

SOS provides the following links to resources focused on educational, legal and psychological issues affecting teens and parents.

• SOS Articles... (includes Fun Facts about Your Brain)
• SOS Newsletters...
• Favorite Books...
• Organizing for Adults...
• Learning Differences... - and assistive technologies
• Schools...

See below for information on:

• Learning Styles Surveys
• Education Law
• Teens and Education
• Therapeutic Boarding Schools

Learning Styles Surveys

• Learning Styles Online - Survey for Visual, Aural, Verbal, Physical, Logical, Social and Solitary learning styles. (Advanogy.com)
• What's you Learning Style? - Quiz with 24 questions from Edutopia.
• Index of Learning Styles - Active/Reflective, Sensing/Intuitive, Visual/Verbal, Sequential/Global learning styles. (NY State University)

Education Law

• Wrightslaw - Hundreds of articles, cases, newsletters, and resources about special education law and advocacy.

Teens and Education

• "Hospital" Treatment Helps Middle Students Succeed - Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School students sees improvement in homework and test scores through one on one help by trained volunteers.
• Adolescent Sleep (pdf) - Medical research shows that adolescent students are sleep deprived and they become several hours sleep deprived by the end of the week.

Therapeutic Boarding School Referrals 

• Contact Ms. Mercedes Carbone at Bodin & Associates for a referral.
  
  Bodin & Associates
  3685 Mt. Diablo Boulevard, Suite 203
  Lafayette, CA 94549
  Tel:  925-283-9100 
  Fax: 925-283-9104