learning disabilities

Alex, a child with dyslexia, learns about his and other learning problems and what is done to solve them.

A guide to understanding learning disorders that includes information on the different kinds of disorders, early warning signs, diagnostic methods, and treatment approaches.

Defines and explains over seventy types of learning disorders and counterproductive behaviors that can hinder a child's academic progress, listing common symptoms, defining terminology and educational jargon, and describing testing procedures and remediation strategies.

Provides information and materials for taking a positive and personal approach to Response to Intervention, discussing how to identify exceptions to learning problems, design interventions, and implement a three-tiered RTI process, and including tips on decreasing paperwork, motivating students, engaging students and parents, and increasing morale.

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.

An eleven-year-old boy with a learning disability describes how his parents and teachers became aware of his condition and arranged for him to join some of his classmates who receive special instruction at their own levels.

A comprehensive guide to learning impairments that connects the latest brain research with strategies to help teachers identify and cope with the most common learning disorders.

Twelve-year-old Richard struggles to achieve independence in spite of a learning disability while his great-grandfather defies the family's plans to curtail his own independent lifestyle.