Defending And Parenting Children Who Learn Differently

Author : Scott Teel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313084799

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Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently by Scott Teel Pdf

Teel incorporates the fascinating story of Nancy Edison's love for her son Thomas, who had been labeled unteachable, then presents us with the wider array of and issues for children who learn differently. We all know Thomas Edison was a genius of seemingly limitless imagination. Yet few know he was a failure in elementary school. Teel shows us how Edison's mother, Nancy, guided the boy deemed a dunce by officials—even assumed mentally retarded by his father—to become one of the greatest inventors of all time. Edison's progressive and imaginative teaching methods hold lessons even today for all children who learn differently from conventional methods, as well as for the parents and teachers who care about them. Teel also explains how parents can negotiate the educational maze created by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). An Individualized Education Program is explained in detail, and options such as enlisting the assistance of a professional advocate are also discussed. The latest research about current medication therapies and the origins plus potential benefits of ADHD are reviewed. A leading professional advocate explains what every parent needs to know about the public school system. Other topics addressed include the effectiveness of home schooling and parental and student rights. An extensive list of local and national resources is also offered.

Author : Antoine Al-Achi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780313350108

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An Introduction to Botanical Medicines by Antoine Al-Achi Pdf

For those who want to make educated decisions about whether, and when, to use natural products, this text explains the most current scientific evidence of the roles that plants can play in our health: how they can prevent, modify, or treat disease. Since antiquity, humans have used botanicals to treat various conditions affecting their organ systems, and this book is built around explaining which plants may be used for major ailments affecting the various systems. The increasing availability of botanicals on the market, intended to be used as dietary supplements for health, has been fueled by the public's demand for a more natural approach to healthcare. Unfortunately, much of the information fed to the public on alternatives is based on anecdotal evidence (case stories), the advice of friends, or media features that often do not stand up to standards for scientific evidence. In this book Al-Achi explains current research and science that exists - or remains lacking - for the various botanicals as healthcare products. He also details the potential misuse and the dangers of some herbal formulas. Photographs of 62 medicinal plants are included. For those who want to make educated decisions whether, and when, to use natural products, this text explains the most current scientific evidence of the roles that plants can play in our health: how they can prevent, modify, or treat disease. Since antiquity, humans have used botanicals to treat various conditions affecting their organ systems, and this book is built around explaining which plants may be used for major ailments affecting the various systems. The increasing availability of botanicals on the market, intended to be used as dietary supplements for health, has been fueled by the public's demand for a more natural approach to healthcare. Unfortunately, much of the information fed to the public on alternatives is based on anecdotal evidence (case studies), the advice of friends, or media features that often do not stand up to standards for scientific evidence. In this book, Al-Achi explains current research and science that exists - or remains lacking - for the various botanicals as healthcare products. He also details the potential misuse and the dangers of some herbal formulas. Photographs of 62 medicinal plants are included. Because of its evidentiary approach, this book may serve also as a text for introductory college courses in the field of botanical medicine, or as a supplemental general text for an alternative and complementary medicine course. The history leading to the use of botanicals in healthcare is described, as are botanicals used in the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular disease, endocrine system disorders such as diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, men's and women's specific disorders, infections, chronic pain, psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression, and other health issues.

Author : David Flink
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780062225948

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Thinking Differently by David Flink Pdf

An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates. In Thinking Differently, David Flink, the leader of Eye to Eye—a national mentoring program for students with learning and attention issues—enlarges our understanding of the learning process and offers powerful, innovative strategies for parenting, teaching, and supporting the 20 percent of students with learning disabilities. An outstanding fighter who has helped thousands of children adapt to their specific learning issues, Flink understands the needs and experiences of these children first hand. He, too, has dyslexia and ADHD. Focusing on how to arm students who think and learn differently with essential skills, including meta-cognition and self-advocacy, Flink offers real, hard advice, providing the tools to address specific problems they face—from building self-esteem and reconstructing the learning environment, to getting proper diagnoses and discovering their inner gifts. With his easy, hands-on “Step-by-Step Launchpad to Empowerment,” parents can take immediate steps to improve their children’s lives. Thinking Differently is a brilliant, compassionate work, packed with essential insights and real-world applications indispensable for parents, educators, and other professional involved with children with learning disabilities.

Author : Dewey Rosetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000495003

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Parenting Bright Kids Who Struggle in School by Dewey Rosetti Pdf

Parenting Bright Kids Who Struggle in School guides parents through the challenging and often unfamiliar landscape of raising kids who have been labeled with learning differences, including dyslexia, ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, and more. This book: Builds upon Harvard professor Todd Rose's groundbreaking research in the "Science of Individuality." Helps parents target their child's jagged profile of strengths and weaknesses. Explains a child's context of learning and multiple pathways. Teaches revolutionary techniques to encourage strengths and mitigate weaknesses. Helps parents manage the emotional fallout of raising a child who does not conform to the "average" model of learning. Drawing from her own experience as a parent of a child with learning differences—who is now a highly successful adult—the author outlines clear lessons from a quarter century of advocating for kids who learn differently.

Author : Kathryn Fishman-Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000490480

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When Your Child Learns Differently by Kathryn Fishman-Weaver Pdf

Advocating for a child who learns differently can sometimes feel like an isolating and daunting task. This book reminds families that they are not alone. When Your Child Learns Differently is a compassionate guide that:

Author : Michael Gurian
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470608258

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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents by Michael Gurian Pdf

A thoroughly revised edition of the classic resource for understanding gender differences in the classroom In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian has revised and updated his groundbreaking book that clearly demonstrated how the distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a proven method to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities. The innovations presented in this book were applied in the classroom and proven successful, with dramatic improvements in test scores, during a two-year study that Gurian and his colleagues conducted in six Missouri school districts. Explores the inherent differences between the developmental neuroscience of boys and girls Reveals how the brain learns Explains when same sex classrooms are appropriate, and when they’re not This edition includes new information on a wealth of topics including how to design the ultimate classroom for kids in elementary, secondary, middle, and high school.

Author : Michael Gurian
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787959302

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Boys and Girls Learn Differently! by Michael Gurian Pdf

At last, we have the scientific evidence that documents the manybiological gender differences that influence learning. Forinstance, girls talk sooner, develop better vocabularies, readbetter, and have better fine motor skills. Boys, on the other hand,have better auditory memory, are better at three-dimensionalreasoning, are more prone to explore, and achieve greater abstractdesign ability after puberty. In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Guriansynthesizes the current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how thisdistinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differencesaffects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way toeducate our children based on brain science, neurologicaldevelopment, and chemical and hormonal disparities. The innovationspresented in this book were applied in the classroom and provensuccessful, with dramatic improvements in test scores, during atwo-year study that Gurian and his colleagues conducted in sixMissouri school districts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814338554

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Strategies for Protecting Your Child's Immune System by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059259252

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Defending Public Schools by David Gabbard,E. Wayne Ross Pdf

Providing an overview and critique of issues in standards based reform and their accompanying accountability strategies, while supporting the neef for high quality schooling, this work discusses alternative means for school improvement and accountability. The Nature and Limits of Standards Based Reform and Assessment provides an overview and critique of issues in standards based reform and corresponding accountability. While supporting the need for high quality schooling, its chapters discuss local and various alternative means for improving schools while providing the accountability demanded by families, schools, and state and federal government.

Author : Claire Lerner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781538149010

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Why Is My Child in Charge? by Claire Lerner Pdf

Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control. In Why is My Child in Charge?, Claire Lerner shows how making critical mindshifts—seeing children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Using real life stories, Lerner unpacks the individualized process she guides parents through to settle common challenges, such as throwing tantrums in public, delaying bedtime for hours, refusing to participate in family mealtimes, and resisting potty training. Lerner then provides readers with a roadmap for how to recognize the root cause of their child’s behavior and how to create and implement an action plan tailored to the unique needs of each child and family. Why is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how parents can develop proven, practical strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected, in-control parents.

Author : Alistair Cooper,Sheila Redfern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317653271

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Reflective Parenting by Alistair Cooper,Sheila Redfern Pdf

Have you ever wondered what’s going on in your child’s mind? This engaging book shows how reflective parenting can help you understand your children, manage their behaviour and build your relationship and connection with them. It is filled with practical advice showing how recent developments in mentalization, attachment and neuroscience have transformed our understanding of the parent-child relationship and can bring meaningful change to your own family relationships. Alistair Cooper and Sheila Redfern show you how to make a positive impact on your relationship with your child, starting from the development of the baby’s first relationship with you as parents, to how you can be more reflective in relationships with toddlers, children and young people. Using everyday examples, the authors provide you with practical strategies to develop a more reflective style of parenting and how to use this approach in everyday interactions to help your child achieve their full potential in their development; cognitively, emotionally and behaviourally. Reflective Parenting is an informative and enriching read for parents, written to help parents form a better relationship with their children. It is also an essential resource for clinicians working with children, young people and families to support them in managing the dynamics of the child-parent relationship. This is a book that every parent needs to read.

Author : Catherine Mikkelsen
Publisher : Brainparenting Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998248002

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Fine Until Kindergarten by Catherine Mikkelsen Pdf

One out of every 12 children learns differently. Parents and children typically discover learning differences (LD) in early grammar school with learning failure, teacher reports, and behavior problems.Even though the beginning LD journey is similar for all, each parent must research and discover this information on their ownl. Instead of discovering how to support their child piecemeal ---with many mistakes and regrets --Fine Until Kindergarten introduces parents to the entire LD situation in a little over 120 pages. No other book guides parents through the labyrinth of working with the school, getting LDs diagnosed, claiming school support, negotiating support with teachers, and working with professionals. Written by a parent, and based upon information from thought leaders, studies, and hundreds of other parents, this book quickly teaches parents how to work with the school, teacher, legal, and medical systems to support their children -- bringing them to happiness and success.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D02248565L

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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1998 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security Pdf

Author : Gavin De Becker
Publisher : Dell
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307833693

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Protecting the Gift by Gavin De Becker Pdf

Safety skills for children outside the home Warning signs of sexual abuse How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence All parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what to believe, what to doubt, what to fear, and what not to fear. In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior and author of the monumental bestseller The Gift of Fear, offers practical new steps to enhance children's safety at every age level, giving you the tools you need to allow your kids freedom without losing sleep yourself. With daring and compassion, he shatters the widely held myths about danger and safety and helps parents find some certainty about life's highest-stakes questions: How can I know a baby-sitter won't turn out to be someone who harms my child? (see page 103) What should I ask child-care professionals when I interview them? (see page 137) What's the best way to prepare my child for walking to school alone? (see page 91) How can my child be safer at school? (see page 175) How can I spot sexual predators? (see page 148) What should I do if my child is lost in public? (see page 86) How can I teach my child about risk without causing too much fear? (see page 98) What must my teenage daughter know in order to be safe? (see page 191) What must my teenage son know in order to be safe? (see page 218) And finally, in the face of all these questions, how can I reduce the worrying? (see page 56)

Author : Hilary Craig
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781482891454

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Small Steps, Big Differences by Hilary Craig Pdf

Each one of us learns in a different way. Traditional teaching approaches don't always suit the variety of different ways people learn-a conflict that can damage confidence and sometimes lead to failure. The key question that faces parents and teachers is how to help those who learn differently find long term success. In Small Steps, Big Differences: A Toolkit for Parents of Children Who Fall through the Cracks, author Hilary Craig challenges this question and offers parents strategies to help. The resources provided within this toolkit are framed around the core belief that all children can make progress, even if traditional learning and teaching methods in the classroom are inadequate for the way they learn. This toolkit provides support to those parents who recognize the unique abilities and talents in their children and who want practical tools to enable them to learn and succeed. Hilary Craig's experience, insight and strategies for helping children learn effectively, provide a valuable resource to accompany classroom learning. In this toolkit, she also addresses the four essential skills for effective learning: memory, listening, attention, and social skills; and strategies to develop each of these, with the final goal to build confidence. Small Steps, Big Differences is an invaluable resource for parents to help their children increase their chances for learning success.