I’ve had my book, “Please Help Me With My Homework: Strategies for Parents and Caregivers” translated into Spanish. I was advised to have it translated into Castilian Spanish so that it would be universal. So, that’s the dialect the book is presently in. I am not Spanish speaking. I had the book translated because of the need for Spanish speaking parents to have a resource to support their students. I do a lot of work with schools that have a significant bi-lingual population and believe this book may help some familes. [...]
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