Disability people need education too


Recommended Books About Learning Disabilities

One of the best and easiest ways to$28.70 (paperback), available at Even
inform yourself about your child'sthough this book is geared toward young
learning disability is by reading a goodreaders, it's a valuable resource for
book on the subject. There is a ton ofboth parents and children to learn from
literature available about learningtogether. Levine is a professor of
problems, so it may be a bit of dauntingpediatrics at the University of North
task to choose something to start with.Carolina Medical School and a staunch
Luckily, there are many informed parentschild advocate. Here, he introduces
and specialists out there who havedifferent types of learning disabilities
already waded through this flood ofthrough stories told from the point of
information, so you don't have to diveview of five elementary school students.
in on your own. The following is a listEach student talks about their classroom
of written resources that have made itexperiences, their struggles and
past the critical gaze of those in thetriumphs. This approach will help
know:children with learning problems to see
1. No Easy Answers: The Learningthat they're not alone and that there
Disabled Child at Home and at School,are strategies that can they can
Sally L. Smith, $23 (paperback),implement to ease their scholastic
available at This has been the book thatdifficulties.
parents of learning disabled children3. Helping Children Overcome Learning
have turned to for more than fifteenDisabilities: A Step-by-Step Guide for
years now. Smith is the parent of aParents and Teachers, Jerome Rosner,
learning disabled child, the founder and$18.95 (paperback), available at The
director of the Lab School, and anapproach of this book is different from
education professor at the Americanmost others on the subject. For
University, so she's extremelystarters, the author suggests that
well-qualified to write about thisparents and teachers avoid using the
subject. The book covers a wide range oflabel "learning disabled" and instead
information, including a look at howfocus on the specific problems that
learning disabilities are diagnosed andtheir children or students face. Rosner
tips on how to make sure your child isis a professor of pediatric optometry at
getting the education he or shethe University of Houston and has
deserves. The updated version includeswritten several books on working with
sections on the Individuals withchildren who have learning issues.
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), ADD,Readers will appreciate his accessible
and ADHD.explanations of each type of learning
2. All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student'sdifficulty, as well as his positive and
Book About Learning Abilities andpractical solution-based approach.
Learning Disorders, Melvin D. Levine,



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