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Different Learners Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child's Learning Problems

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ISBN-10: 1416556419

ISBN-13: 9781416556411

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jane M. Healy

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/13/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Jane M. Healy, Ph.D. is a teacher and educational psychologist who has worked with young people of all ages, from pre-school to graduate school. She has been a classroom teacher, reading and learning specialist, school administrator, and clinician. She is currently a lecturer and consultant, and the author of three books about how children do (and don't) learn, Your Child's Growing Mind, Endangered Minds, and Failure to Connect. She and her work have been featured in national media such as CNN and NPR. She has twice been named "Educator of the Year" by Delta Kappa Gamma, the professional honor society of women educators.nbsp; Jane and her husband claim they have learned most of what they…    

Foreword and Acknowledgments
Brain Crisis: Problems and Possibilities
Too Many Dyssed Kids
What's the Problem? Diagnostic Dilemmas
What Should We Call This? Understanding Learning Disorders
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
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
Terms of Dysfunction: Learning Problems, Seen and Unseen
A Few Thoughts About When to Worry
A Primer on Getting Professional Help for Your Child
Reference List
Notes
Bibliography
Index