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Different learners : identifying, preventing, and treating your children's learning problems / Jane M. Healy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2010.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hc edDescription: x, 402 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1416556419
  • 1439170207
  • 9781416556411 (hc)
  • 9781439170205
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 371.9 H434 Available 33111006485268
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 371.9 H434 Available 33111006420927
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"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 that, because some learning problems are genetically based, they can do nothing to help. Even the terminology of learning disorders is confusing: dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADD, ADHD, autism, Asperger's syndrome, NVLD, executive function disorder--what are all these conditions, how do they differ from one another and, most important, what practical steps should parents and teachers take to remedy the situation?

This comprehensive, practical guide to children's learning problems should be the first resource parents and teachers reach for when a child shows signs of difficulty in academic, social, or behavioral learning. Drawing on her decades of experience, educator Jane Healy offers understandable explanations of the various types of learning disorders. She distills the latest scientific research on brains, genes, and learning as she explains how to identify problems--even before they are diagnosed--and how to take appropriate remedial action at home, at school, and in the community.

Today's fast-paced, stressed-out culture is hazardous to growing minds, says Healy, and a growing "epidemic" of children's disorders is the result. Different Learners offers a complete program not only for treating the child, but also for making more beneficial lifestyle choices at home and improving teaching techniques at school. It shows parents and caregivers how to prevent some learning difficulties from ever happening in the first place. It explains how to have your child evaluated if necessary, and, if a problem is found, how to evaluate various treatments. Different Learners explains how medications for attention and learning work in the brain and why they should not be the first step in most treatment programs. It shows how schools can actually worsen a child's learning difficulties and how to make sure this doesn't happen to your child. It even offers a program for "brain-cleaning" that will help any child perform better in school.

Jane Healy draws on stories of real children to offer sympathetic as well as practical advice for children--and parents--who are struggling in an overstressed environment. She provides reassurance that parents and teachers can have dramatically positive effects on every child's ability to learn.

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.

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.

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