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General Information About Learning Disabilities
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Learning Disabilities Online- A great, general website about learning disabilities
Schwab Learning - Started by Charles Schwab, who has dyslexia, this website is a great reference for parents about helping kids with a variety of learning differences.
All Kinds of Minds- Dr. Mel Levine's website- great references for parents and educators about understanding and helping kids with learning disabilities- has a email monthly newsletter.
LD Pride.net- a great website that has many useful tools and information, including information about multiple intelligences
Experts And Their Books:
Rick Lavoie-It's so much work to be your friend:Helping a child with learning disabilities find social success
Dr. Mel Levine, MD: A Mind at a Time; The Myth of Laziness; Ready or Not, Here Life Comes; Educational Care; Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics
Dr. Robert Brooks: Wonderful author and speaker! Books include Raising Resilient Children, Touching a Student's Heart and Mind:The Mindset of the Effective Educator and The Self-Disciplined Child
Michael Thompson - The Author of "Raising Cain- Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys" and "The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and in Life" among others. Michael Thompson is a wonderful speaker, and you should definitely take advantage of any opportunity to see his presentations in person. He had a great piece all parents should read, entitled "Eight Steps to Better Parent-Teacher Conferences" published in Time Magazine- Click here to be linked to the page on the web.
Edward Hallowell, MD- Dr. Hallowell has authored many books including "Connect"; "Delivered From Distraction" "Answers to Distraction", and he himself, has ADHD. He is teaming up with Michael Thompson to present an online course in January, 2007
William Sears, MD- Dr. Sears, his wife, Martha Sears, and their sons have a great website that joins their already well-known books on parenting and raising children. The ADD Book, The Discipline Book, The Successful Child, and The Baby Book, are just a few of my favorites.
Sally Shaywitz, MD- Dr. Shaywitz and her husband are well-known physicians who co-direct the Yale Center For the Study of Learning. She has written Overcoming Dyslexia, a book that shows, in part, how early detection of potential reading disorders and proper instruction can help re-wire the brain and make it more efficient in its ability to read. Simply amazing research from a well-known and respected physician.
Resources:
Audiobooks on the web- Audible.Com has a greats election of audio books for children, teens, and adults. You can preview programs, and best of all, you can download the books, listen to them on your computer, mp3 player, or even burn them to CD. Click the link to go to their website- and don't forget to them the LD Podcast sent you!- Audible.com
Books About Learning Disabilities:
Jonathan Mooney & David Cole- Learning Outside the Lines- a tale of two college students at Brown University who succeeded despite having learning disabilities in school.
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