learning disabilities

An eleven-year-old child with a learning disability spends several weeks with an overachieving cousin. They learn a lot about themselves and each other.

Explains what learning disabilities are and how they are assessed, as well as providing advice for coping with them in school, while having a social life, and in a career.

"Perfect Parent" magazine publisher Rachel Berman, the overprotective single mother of a rebellious teenage girl and twelve-year-old boy, finds her life turned upside down when she begins dating widowed lawyer Len Bean, the father of Olivia, a ten-year-old girl with an odd learning disability.

After successfully hiding her learning disability problems from her Australian pen pal, Jennifer becomes very apprehensive when her friend announces she is coming for a visit and wants to spend a day at her school.

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.

Just as sixteen-year-old learning-disabled Doreen is about to be mainstreamed into a regular school, the loss of her best friend to another girl drives her to a desperate act.

Outcasts Maxwell and Kevin, the former a giant of a boy who lacks intelligence and the latter a genius in leg braces, team up for a series of imaginative adventures that bring them undreamed-of discoveries.

Discusses some of the reasons children may need help in school and how to get the help they need.

Discusses how children with "learning differences" can get along better in school.