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This book is about two parents determined to ensure their children have the best education they can provide, while struggling to obtain resources for their child who suffers from a learning disability.

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One of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia delivers this comprehensive, up-to-date book to help readers understand, identify, and overcome reading problems. Dr. Shaywitz translates cutting-edge research into an easy-to-follow plan of action offering help and hope. High school & older.

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For parents, teachers, and any dyslexic individual - the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book available on identifying, understanding, and overcoming reading problems.

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Please Teach Me To Read, Somebody - The Basic English Phonograms With Exercises in Phonemic Awareness and Consonant Blends WORKBOOK is designed as a tool for parents and teachers to aid struggling readers. Teaching guidelines are included.

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Every teacher knows them: bright students who face learning difficulties that interfere with their ability to shine at school. 101 School Success Tools for Smart Kids With Learning Difficulties is a comprehensive resource that will help educators recognize and nurture the potential in these students, providing strategies to empower smart kid

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Underachievement in school is one of the most widely-used terms in education today. As a discourse, it has been responsible for influencing government policy, staffroom discussions, as well as the pages of academic journals and the TES.

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Rather than approaching the art of precocious young artists with autism as enigmatic and symptomatic, their work is explored as having its origin in human physiology and in the intrinsic human need for meaning.

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This book is about a little boy named Mikey who was having a difficult time waiting. He had several situations in which he had to wait and became more frustrated as time went by . Mikey was eventually rewarded for not getting upset when he was told he needed to be patient and wait.

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Drawing on their respective roles as a school library media specialist and a psychologist, these authors present a comprehensive five-step model of bibliotherapy. Within the five steps, activities that comprise diverse bibliotherapy programs are described and competencies necessary for bibliotherapy practice are examined.

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Teel incorporates the fascinating story of Nancy Edison's love for her son Thomas, who had been labeled unteachable, then presents us with the wider array of and issues for children who learn differently.

We all know Thomas Edison was a genius of seemingly limitless imagination.

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Including material on early identification and intervention, this title offers non-specialist teachers material to reinforce the link between theory and practice. It features topics such as: reading, spelling, creative writing, study skills, differentiation, identification of dyslexia, the role of parents and policy and provision for dyslexia.

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Presents a revolutionary, effective approach to overcoming dyslexia and other learning disabilities--including ADD/ADHD, dyscalculia and acalculia, and dysgraphia and agraphia--that uses a combination of mental and physical exercises called "Orientation Counseling" and learning tools called "Symbol

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The aim of the Including Children with... series is to equip practitioners and carers with the basic information they require in order to understand particular special needs and respond appropriately to the child and his or her parents. The emphasis is on helping the child to participate as fully as possible in the curriculum.

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Although often termed the 'invisible disability', up to ten per cent of school children experience some degree of difficulty with their language and communication skills. This book provides teachers with practical strategies for supporting such children in the classroom.

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His discussion revolves around the way in which social order structures reality, how that structured reality affects daily social practices, and how this, in turn, perpetuates the social structure which conditioned the practices in the first place.

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Finlan offers suggestions to parents of what to do to avoid having their children labeled, to take charge of their own children's education and not leave it entirely up to the so-called experts.

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Finlan offers suggestions to parents of what to do to avoid having their children labeled, to take charge of their own children's education and not leave it entirely up to the so-called experts.

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Based on a program designed for children with learning disabilities, a guide to creating an individualized education program discusses the nature of learning while demonstrating successful techniques.

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Contributors treat issues of evaluation and testing, and conclude by addressing the potential of collaborative efforts.

Responding to a major challenge, community groups and organizations throughout the country are seeking answers to the problem of underachieving minority students.

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Tells how to identify learning disabilities, offers parents advice on working with their children's teachers, and discusses therapy, medication, educational rights, and useful resources.

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This volume brings together original papers by international scholars and practitioners on the question of the effects of parent interaction with developmentally disabled children.