Learning Disabled category: 563 books
Helping Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities to Flourish
A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
`Imagine getting lost in your own home, forgetting where the bathroom is at work, or being unable to operate a simple door knob. These are just some of the myriad challenges faced by individuals with a Nonverbal Learning Disability, or NLD…In Helping Children With Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities to...
by Dr Eileen Carnell, Caroline M Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
`Teachers will find this book helpful because it locates convincing theoretical reasoning with the familiar practice of the learning environments of the secondary school. Many other learners, in formal education and beyond, might simply find the book an informative and challenging read.... The book...
by Gavin Reid
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
'[Gavin Reid] provides some useful links to websites devoted to different approaches. Some of the ideas relating to specific areas of the curriculum, for example, the suggested approaches to the teaching of modern languages, are likely to be particularly valuable. Reid also outlines strategies using...
by Camilia Sadik
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
100 Spelling Rules contains exclusive 100 spelling rules discovered by Linguist Camilia Sadik. Logical learners need these rules to know when to spell a sound one-way and not the other, as in the final sound in fashion, ocean, suspicion, complexion, superstition, expression, and musician. 100 Spelling...
Different Learners
Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child's Learning Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
*"My child is having trouble in school.
What should I do?"*
When parents are told that their child is having difficulty in school, they often don’t know where to turn for reliable information and advice. They may be confused by conflicting claims of "cures" or may mistakenly think...
Working Memory and Learning
A Practical Guide for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Dr Tracy Alloway has been awarded the prestigious Joseph Lister Award from the British Science Association.
'The authors have written a guide for practitioners that is both highly practical, and yet based upon sound theoretical principles….This book achieves a successful, yet often elusive,...
The Effective Teacher's Guide to Dyslexia and other Learning Difficulties (Learning Disabilities)
Practical strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This highly anticipated second edition of The Effective Teacher's Guide to Dyslexia and other Learning Difficulties (Learning Disabilities) critically examines the specificity and complexity of learning disabilities. The user-friendly text highlights the importance of schools reviewing their curricula...
Understanding and Promoting Access for People with Learning Difficulties
Seeing the Opportunities and Challenges of Risk
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The issue of access is at the forefront of the practical challenges facing people with learning difficulties and people working with or supporting them. This engaging text brings together evidence, narratives and discussions that question and advance our understanding of the concept of access for...
by Stephanie George
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Are you looking for ideas, advice and guidance to make you an effective Learning Mentor?
This practical book is designed to help those new to the Learning Mentor role avoid common pitfalls, and to help those with more experience to develop their skills.
Written by an expert practitioner,...
by Jim Mansell, Paul Cambridge, Robina Shah
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This excellent, informative and well presented, a book provides the reader with fourteen edited chapters covering an area of policy and practice that is quite specific but will inform anyone interested in the development of a service user participation ethos in adult social care. It is a book that...
How to Succeed with Specific Learning Difficulties at College and University
A Guide for Students, Educators and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
For any adult with specific learning difficulties, going to college or university can be a challenge. From study skills to budgeting, from cooking to relationships, Amanda Kirby identifies routes to success in both education and socially. At the heart of How To Succeed with Specific Learning Difficulties...
Thinking Differently
An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.
In Thinking Differently, David...
by Neil Mars
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Over many years, I've analyzed dozens of books from various sources. I began by reading much of the literary editions promising immediate results, mostly from authors with background in psychology, offering memorization methods and concentration techniques, but nothing seemed to work. They didn’t...
Learning Disability
A Social approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The detailed study of learning disability features rarely in university courses. To a large extent this reflects the low value attributed by our society and its human services to people with learning difficulties. This unusual book, based on one of those rare courses, includes contributions from academic...