Communicating your child’s love language to educators is a simple way to cultivate a good teaching and learning relationship between them. Many of the caregiving parents interviewed for Sharing Love Abundantly in Special Needs Families: The 5 Love Languages for Parents Raising Children with Disabilities explained how they do it. In chapter 9 of Sharing Love Abundantly in Special Needs Families several of them stressed the importance of “translating” the love languages into educational jargon. Here are a few examples.

• Instead of saying “My child responds best to words of affirmation,” say “My child responds well to positive reinforcement.”
• Instead of saying “My child’s love language is physical touch,” say “My child loves getting high fives when he does something well.”
• Instead of saying “My child’s love language is gifts,” say “My child responds well to applied behavioral analysis (ABA).”

More ideas about communicating your child’s love language to educators, such as how to make them part of a child’s IEP or 504 plan, can be found in chapter 9 of Sharing Love Abundantly in Special Needs Families. Research shows that kids who feel loved and welcome at school are better able to learn. Why not use the love languages to make their school days happier and more productive?

Links to other articles in this series:

The Love Languages and Special Needs Families: A Good Combination

Basic Love Language Concepts to Ease Stress and Increase Joy in Caregiving Families

Threats to Caregiving Marriages and How To Fight Them 

Love Is a Child’s First Language

Determining the Love Language of a Child with Special Needs or a Disability 

Ways to Speak Words of Affirmation and Quality Time to Kids with Special Needs 

Ways To Speak Gifts and Acts of Service to Kids with Special Needs 

Speaking Healthy Physical Touch to Kids with Special Needs

Using the Love Languages with Siblings of Kids with Special Needs and Disabilities 

Extended Family Members Can Use the Love Languages to Encourage Caregiving Parents

Communicating Your Child’s Love Language to Medical Professionals

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