Disability people need education too


Recommended Books About Learning Disabilities

One of the best and easiest ways to inform(paperback), available at Even though this
yourself about your child's learningbook is geared toward young readers, it's a
disability is by reading a good book on thevaluable resource for both parents and
subject. There is a ton of literaturechildren to learn from together. Levine is a
available about learning problems, so it mayprofessor of pediatrics at the University of
be a bit of daunting task to choose somethingNorth Carolina Medical School and a staunch
to start with. Luckily, there are manychild advocate. Here, he introduces different
informed parents and specialists out theretypes of learning disabilities through
who have already waded through this flood ofstories told from the point of view of five
information, so you don't have to dive in onelementary school students. Each student
your own. The following is a list of writtentalks about their classroom experiences,
resources that have made it past the criticaltheir struggles and triumphs. This approach
gaze  of  those  in  the  know:will help children with learning problems to
see that they're not alone and that there are
1. No Easy Answers: The Learning Disabledstrategies that can they can implement to
Child at Home and at School, Sally L. Smith,ease  their  scholastic  difficulties.
$23 (paperback), available at This has been
the book that parents of learning disabled3. Helping Children Overcome Learning
children have turned to for more than fifteenDisabilities: A Step-by-Step Guide for
years now. Smith is the parent of a learningParents and Teachers, Jerome Rosner, $18.95
disabled child, the founder and director of(paperback), available at The approach of
the Lab School, and an education professor atthis book is different from most others on
the American University, so she's extremelythe subject. For starters, the author
well-qualified to write about this subject.suggests that parents and teachers avoid
The book covers a wide range of information,using the label "learning disabled" and
including a look at how learning disabilitiesinstead focus on the specific problems that
are diagnosed and tips on how to make suretheir children or students face. Rosner is a
your child is getting the education he or sheprofessor of pediatric optometry at the
deserves. The updated version includesUniversity of Houston and has written several
sections on the Individuals with Disabilitiesbooks on working with children who have
Education  Act  (IDEA),  ADD,  and  ADHD.learning issues. Readers will appreciate his
accessible explanations of each type of
2. All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student's Booklearning difficulty, as well as his positive
About Learning Abilities and Learningand practical solution-based approach.
Disorders, Melvin D. Levine, $28.70



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