Learning Disabilities Add Adhd And Tourette Syndrome

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  “Thinking Tool” Kit Activity Pack

  This NEW activity pack introduces “Thinking Shapes” to teach sequential thinking skills, problem solving, predictions, and improve executive functions using visual and kinesthetic strategies. The Circle-Square-Triangle graphic organizer “Thinking Tool” was introduced in the book Learning the ROPES for Improved Executive Function . This Activity Pack provides the materials to make all activities “Thinking Tool” activities hands-on and manipulative. The 38-piece “Thinking Tool” Kit Includes:
  • Vinyl storage pack

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  A Different Life

  Born with a hole in his heart that required invasive surgery when he was only three months old, Quinn Bradlee suffered from a battery of illnesses–seizures, migraines, fevers–from an early age. But it wasn’t until he was fourteen that Bradlee was correctly diagnosed with Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome (VCFS), a widespread, little-understood disorder that is expressed through a wide range of physical ailments and learning disabilities. Ten percent of the population is affected by a learning disability, but few of us understand what being learning disabled (LD) is really like.

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  A Mind at a Time

  A groundbreaking book about intelligence and success that recalls Daniel Goleman’s bestselling Emotional Intelligence, A Mind at a Time shows that there are many ways to learn–and explains how parents and teachers can help every school-age child.  Children have different ways of learning, argues Levine, a professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School and director of its Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning, so why do schools behave as though a one-size-fits-all education will work for everyone?

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  A Special Education

  While supplies last, you save $5.49 (25%) Dana Buchman knew almost nothing about “learning differences” when her oldest daughter, Charlotte, was diagnosed with neurological, spatial, and motor skill disabilities as a toddler. Furthermore, from the Ivy League to the launch of her own fashion label, Buchman had encountered few obstacles that couldn’t be overcome through hard work and determination.

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  A Special Kind of Brain

  Sharing the experience of bringing up a child with nonverbal learning disability (NLD), this warm and accessible book offers advice on subjects ranging across diagnosis and therapy, children’s interaction with each other, suitable activities for a child with NLD and how to discuss NLD with children. An essential guide, this book will reassure, advise and inform parents and professionals who work with children with NLD. Nancy Russell Burger is a freelance writer whose nine-year-old son, Jimmy, was diagnosed with NLD at the age of four. Foreword by Byron P. Rourke. 224 pages. 2004

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  Academic Success Strategies for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities and ADHD

  With this strategy-oriented handbook, education professionals will learn what they can do to help students with mild disabilities–from high school to post-high school–develop academic skills in
  • organization
  • test-taking
  • study skills
  • note taking
  • reading
  • writing
  • math

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  Active Imagination Activity Book

  Childhood is a time filled with new motor challenges and all kinds of hurdles; Kids are busy learning to tie their shoes, zipper their jackets, ride a bicycle, negotiate the , and write their names. All of these skills require kids to have strength, coordination, and the ability to focus and attend.The activities in this book Active Imagination Activity Book tap into what kids love best: PLAY.

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  ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

  ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life focuses on the particular dilemmas and challenges of adults with ADD. Provides organizational skills for life, allowing energy to be focused on strengths, rather than disorder, through the use of humor and compassion.Organizing books fall short of addressing the unique needs of adults with ADD. They fail to understand the clinical picture of ADD and how it impacts the organizing process often making their advice irrelevant or frustrating when put into application.

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  ADHD

  Paul Wender began his career treating children with ADHD 37 years ago and has treated adults with the disorder for almost 30 years. His exhaustive research and insight gained from clinical practice led to the first book about ADHD in children (Minimal Brain Dysfunction in Children, 1971). Continuing research revealed that in many instances ADHD persisted into adult life, and that adult ADHD included symptoms that were not present in childhood. These findings resulted in his 1995 book Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults.

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