This book focuses on adults with severe learning disabilities (LD) and the educators who work with them.
It is hard to find a proposal for improving American education that does not include plans for the widespread use of computers.
Phonemic awareness—the understanding that words are made up of sounds—is essential to a child's early reading success. With this book, children gain this awareness through engaging, easy to teach activities.
Everything you wanted to know about phonics but were afraid to ask! This practical handbook, written by an early reading specialist, will show you how to build engaging, effective phonics practice into your reading-writing program.
Negotiating the Special Education Maze is one of the best tools available to parents and teachers for developing an effective education program for their child or student.
Thoughtful and practical, this book will appeal to today's busy parents, with its concise, easy-to-read style. Now in a convenient format, Don't Miss the Bus! is even more accessible to parents with no time to spare.
This book presents an argument promoting learning language through a combined Chomsky/Piagetian perspective. This book is a classic among developmental psychologists.
Do you know a child who is bright, charming and articulate, but has no friends? A child who showed early signs of intelligence, but is now floundering, academically and emotionally? Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD) are an enigma.
Author Rondalyn Varney Whitney, a pediatric occupational therapist, is the mother of Zac, a child who suffers from nonverbal learning disorder, or NLD.
Brain chemistry, not bad parenting, is responsible for the 12 percent of children younger than 18 who have diagnosable brain disorders, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), separation anxiety disorder (SAD), or enuresis (bed-wetting).