Teens Talk About Learning Disabilities and Differences

Teens Talk About Learning Disabilities and Differences
Author: Jennifer Landau
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1508176604

For a teen diagnosed with a learning disability or difference, schoolwork can be an enormous challenge. The first-person accounts in this compelling book offer real-life stories about struggling with attention-deficit disorder, dyslexia, Asperger's, and other issues. Whether searching for a school where they can succeed or finding their creative voice, the teens move forward with grit and determination. Told in engaging and accessible prose, this book provides young adults with a road map as they learn to advocate for themselves so they can receive the education they deserve.

The Survival Guide for Kids with LD*

The Survival Guide for Kids with LD*
Author: Gary L. Fisher
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1575421194

Discusses how children with "learning differences" can get along better in school, set goals, and plan for the future.

Helping Your Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities

Helping Your Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities
Author: Daniel Franklin
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2018-07-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1684031001

Based in cutting-edge research in neuroscience, education, and the principles of attachment-based teaching, this important guide for parents offers tools and practices to help children transcend language-based learning difficulties, do better in school, and gain self-confidence and self-esteem. If your child has a language-based learning difficulty—such as dyscalculia, dyslexia, and auditory processing disorder—they may have to work twice as hard to keep up with their peers in school. Your child may also have feelings of frustration, anger, sadness, or shame as a result of their learning differences. As a parent, it hurts to see your child struggle. But the good news is that there are proven-effective strategies you can learn to help your child be their best. This book will show you how. Helping Your Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities outlines an attachment-based approach to help your child succeed based in the latest research. This research indicates that a secure attachment relationship between you and your child actually optimizes their learning ability by enhancing motivation, regulating anxiety, and triggering neuroplasticity. In this book, you’ll discover why it’s so important to accurately assess your child, find new perspectives on LBLDs based on the most current studies, and discover tips and strategies for navigating school, home life, and your child’s future. Most importantly, you’ll learn how your own special bond with your child can help spark their interest in reading, writing, and math. Every child is unique—and every child learns in his or her own way. With this groundbreaking guide, you’ll be able to help your child thrive, in school and life.

Learning Disabilities

Learning Disabilities
Author: Penny Hutchins Paquette
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006-05-08
Genre: Children with disabilities
ISBN: 0810856433

Inside the easy-to-read pages of this comprehensive guidebook are tools for identifying, understanding, and overcoming the struggles facing teenagers and young adults with learning disabilities. First in a new series, this upbeat book empowers teenagers, showing them how to create an educational plan for high school and college. Full of tips for using assistive technology, including electronic notebooks, Optical Character Recognition systems, and books on tape, this resource talks to teens on a personal level. It also teaches students their rights under federal and state law and profiles famous people that have learning disabilities.--From publisher description.

The Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook

The Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook
Author: Joan M. Harwell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118937686

The third edition of this classic resource is a comprehensive source of information, strategies, and activities for working with learning disabled students. The book offers special educators, classroom teachers, and parents a wealth of new and proven suggestions and ready-to-use materials for helping LD students of all ages learn and perform at their fullest potential.

Grown and Flown

Grown and Flown
Author: Lisa Heffernan
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1250188954

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.

Learning About Learning Disabilities

Learning About Learning Disabilities
Author: Po-Zen Wong
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2014-05-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1483295397

This is the first textbook to give equal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities. Topical coverage is both comprehensive and thorough, and the information presented is up-to-date.Provides a balanced focus on both the conceptual and practical aspects of learning disabilities (LD)**The research covered is far more comprehensive and of greater depth than any other LD textbook**The work is distinctive in its treatment of such important areas as consultation skills and service delivery

Yes I Can!

Yes I Can!
Author: Kendra J. Barrett
Publisher: Magination Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781433828690

"Carolyn is in a wheelchair, but she doesn't let that stop her! She can do almost everything the other kids can, even if sometimes she has to do it a little differently"--

Normal Sucks

Normal Sucks
Author: Jonathan Mooney
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250190177

Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn—individually, uniquely, and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain and body. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realization that that he wasn’t the problem—the system and the concept of normal were—saved Mooney’s life and fundamentally changed his outlook. Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and adults when they’re trapped in environments that label them, shame them, and tell them, even in subtle ways, that they are the problem. But, he argues, if we can reorient the ways in which we think about diversity, abilities, and disabilities, we can start a revolution. A highly sought after public speaker, Mooney has been inspiring audiences with his story and his message for nearly two decades. Now he’s ready to share what he’s learned from parents, educators, researchers, and kids in a book that is as much a survival guide as it is a call to action. Whip-smart, insightful, and utterly inspiring—and movingly framed as a letter to his own young sons, as they work to find their ways in the world—this book will upend what we call normal and empower us all.

The Survival Guide for Kids with LD*

The Survival Guide for Kids with LD*
Author: Rhoda Cummings
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2016-08-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1631980793

Kids with LD can learn—they just learn differently. Young people labeled with a “learning disability” or “learning disorder” will find a welcome resource in this fully revised and updated survival guide. The book retains the warmth, affirmation, and straightforward approach of earlier editions while incorporating current information about why some kids have LD and what supports are available, including new technologies. It defines different kinds of LD, describes a range of learning aids, helps kids deal with bullying and difficult feelings, suggests ways to make friends, and inspires young people to set goals for the future. Readers will find quizzes, think-about-it questions, stories, and quotes from other kids with LD. A special section discusses how IEPs and 504 Plans help kids with learning difficulties succeed in school. Includes a chapter written to parents and teachers along with resources for kids and adults.