Specific Disabilities Books

Wow -- a really well-done book that captures a wide spectrum of ideas and research on learning disabilities. What I find remarkable about this book is that for nearly every test that is talked about here, the test authors themselves write the chapter -- Woodcock writes about the Woodcock-Johnson, Feuerstein writes about dynamic assessment, and Reitan writes about the Halstead-Reitan. An integrative chapter by the editors brings everything together. Worth checking out.

A great little book, easy to read and fun. I am passing it on to my daughter.

Straight Talk About Learning Disabilites is a "must read" for parents, students and teachers dealing with learning disabilities. The author's "straight forward" style is refreshing amid the lenghtly books and technical research journal excerpts about learning disabilities. She fully explains learning disabilities in a simple, direct and concise style that makes for easy reading and comprehension. The author does a great job explaining the often-confusing and overwhelming student evaluation and diagnosis process and developing Individual Education Programs (IEP). I found the legal portion of the book extremely informative and helpful as well as easy to understand. Kay Marie Porterfield writes about her own disability in the Preface, "Scatterbrain," which I found entertaining, enlightening and inspiring. She proves to be a credible source and knows first-hand what she's writing about. Although it's written primarily for young adults, everyone,including parents, educators and peers should read the book to better understand learning disabilities. I've read many books and research articles aboutlearning disabilities, this is the first one I found that clearly summarizes what it means to be learning disabled. I highly recommend this easy-to-read book. It lives up to its title!

I represent a private, non-profit organization that provides evaluation and tutoring services for children K-8. We strongly believe in professional development in order to maintain a high level of competency in the field of education. When our teachers have an opening in their schedule, they select books like this to review, to reflect and to write a summary, which is submitted to me for review and professional credit. Our entire teaching staff has found this book to be a good resource.

Dr. Lue's book, A Survey of Communications Disorders for the Classroom Teacher was an excellent book and resource. I used it for my master's level class, Teaching Written and Spoken Language and it was very useful. In addition, to helping me to better understand language acquisition, I also learned alot about language disorders. Further, the book goes into sufficient detail that it does not presume a certain level of background knowledge needed to successfully use the book. I have added this book to my personal library and would highly recommend it, especially to Special Educators, but a great resource for all educators.

I teach Language Arts and Special Education at a high school outside of Denver where a disproportionatly large segment of the student body struggles with learning disabilities. I opened this book expecting to see the type of academic rhetoric common to articles and books on educational theory; what I found instead was a story of a mother and daughter that defied the conventions of how teachers approach learning disablities. As well meaning as teachers can be, we can sometimes hinder a student by placing labels and boxing him or her into how we think they should learn. Danielle's mother is a tenacious woman that should serve as a sort of benchmark for any parent struggling to find support for their child. Danielle herself, through her grade school trials and university accomplishments, has proven herself to be a poster-child for what a person can accomplish when they decide that quitting is simply not an option. A big thank you to the Graves for sharing their story.

This is a must read for anyone who believes that they may have children with special needs. The struggle to a) get the needs recognized officially and b) get the appropriate support from the education authorities is both poignant and inspiring. If you have struggled with the inequity and callousness of the public educational system, if you are uncertain of your rights and appropriate procedures, this is a great "how to" book.

Must reading for parents of children with this often missed diagnosis, practitioners working with these children or psychologists involved in the assessment of children. Deals with cognitive as well as social issues. Learn why this disorder is often neglected despite the significant impact on educational and social adjustment.

Wonderful book! If you are a special educator and teach children with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities, this is a book that YOU must have! It covers all 5 domains! It has your lesson plans, IEP goal and objectives. It has great ideas when you can't think of what you need to work on next.

This product will be of particular use is designing differentiated assessment methods in the classroom.