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Different learners : identifying, preventing, and treating your children's learning problems
- Author
- Healy, Jane M.
- Title
- Different learners : identifying, preventing, and treating your children's learning problems / Jane M. Healy.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st Simon & Schuster hc ed.
- Published
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c2010.
- Description
- x, 402 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- URL
- <Sample text> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1009/2009027287-s.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009027287-d.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009027287-b.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-390) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
- Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder--Education. Learning disabled children--Education. Dyslexic children--Education. Learning--Social aspects. Learning--Physiological aspects. Parents of children with disabilities.
- ISBN
- 9781416556411 (hc) 1416556419 9781439170205 1439170207