Students
identified with learning disabilities are not retarded but may,
in fact, be gifted. Reading difficulties can have auditory as well as visual
causes.
Social problems may be more distressing than academics for students with LD.
Learning
Disabilities From a Parent’s Perspective was written to help parents
overcome the steep learning curve encountered when someone suspects a
child to have a “learning problem.” The book demystifies medical, legal,
psychological, and educational concepts—known to professionals but often
little understood by parents—in user-friendly terms for the purpose of
strategically navigating a child through an incompatible but mandatory
K-12 curriculum. Topics include identification processes, treatment
options, accommodations, standardized testing, homework, social
vulnerability and bullying, motivation, assistive technology, and
postsecondary trajectories. The book includes 229 bibliography entries,
610 footnotes, appendices, and suggested references throughout the 405
pages of text for further investigations; diagrams, illustrations, photos,
and statistical analyses; biographies of well-known individuals who
realized success despite classroom difficulties; parents’ detailed
experiences with different types of learning disabilities, AD/HD, and
Asperger’s syndrome; and opinions from experts in many fields
well-acquainted with the problems of a child having learning difficulties
in school.
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