learning disabilities

Provides suggestions and materials for meeting the special needs of learning-disabled students, featuring tools for diagnosis and assessment, strategies for classroom management, solutions to common problems, guidelines for intervention, and techniques for helping older learning-disabled students.

Explains how understanding a child's unique strengths can be used to overcome obstacles to learning, discussing how children can be mislabled with too-broad diagnoses, such as ADHD, what influence those labels can have on a child's schooling, how medication impacts learning, and other related topics.

"Provides basic consumer health information about the signs, symptoms, and diagnosis of various learning disabilities and other conditions that impact learning, along with facts about early intervention and the special education process, advice for coping at home and school, and handling the transition to adulthood. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--Provided by publisher.

A story about a child with learning disabilities.

Provides information and guidance for teachers on the Response to Intervention, or RTI, approach to learning disability identification, discussing the standard treatment protocol method, the problem-solving method, and implementation.

At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.

As he is preparing to attend middle school, Hank, who has learning differences and academic difficulties, gets an unexpected opportunity to audition for a performing arts school where his creativity and humor will be appreciated and nurtured.

Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.

Poetry, written by a girl with learning disabilities, reflects her feelings and experiences.

Provides an overview of learning disabilities, explains why they occur, describes the effects of a variety of learning disabilities, and offers advice to teens on how to identify, understand, and overcome the obstacles posed by learning disabilities.