TY  - BOOK
AU  - Healy,Jane M.
TI  - Different learners: identifying, preventing, and treating your children's learning problems 
SN  - 1416556419
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Attention-deficit-disordered children
KW  - Education
KW  - Dyslexic children
KW  - Learning disabled children
KW  - Learning
KW  - Physiological aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Parents of children with disabilities
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-390) and index; pt. 1. Brain crisis: problems and possibilities. Too many dyssed kids -- What's the problem? Diagnostic dilemmas -- What should we call this? Understanding learning disorders -- pt. 2. Your unique child. Brain differences and learning differences -- Rewiring children's brains: how the brain builds itself and how we can help -- How your child's brain works: "brain juice," emotion, motivation, attention, and medicating children's minds -- Genes, learning, and the environment: biology isn't always destiny -- Who's intelligent?: learning styles and one-of-a-kind brains -- pt. 3. childhood in the twenty-first century: pathway to problems or gateway to success? Stress: the great dys-abler -- Brain-cleaning 101: banish brain disruptors -- Brain-cleaning 102: tackling lifestyle factors -- Successful environments for successful children -- Appendixes: A. Terms of dysfunction: learning problems, seen and unseen -- B. A few thoughts about when to worry -- C. A primer on getting professional help for your child -- D. Reference list
N2  - Analyzes the rise in learning disabilities among school-age children while counseling parents and educators on how to solve specific problems, arguing that environmental factors are responsible for most learning disabilities
ER  -