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The Don't Give Up Kid and Learning Differences
Jeanne Gehret

The Don't Give Up Kid and Learning Differences

In this story, a primary age child called The Don’t Give Up Kid by his parents feels like giving up when trying to read. Includes a parent resource guide to learning disabilities.

The EdTech Bible: Everything you need to know about teaching and technology
Kristen A. Treglia

The EdTech Bible: Everything you need to know about teaching and technology

The EdTech Bible is the book about technology that I wish I had when I began my career in the classroom over ten years ago. No matter what your technology or teaching background, this is the book that will allow you to develop engaging, original and satisfying classroom experiences suited to your own teaching goals.

The Family-School Connection
Bruce A. Ryan, Gerald R. Adams, Thomas P. Gullotta, Roger P. Weissberg

The Family-School Connection: Theory, Research, and Practice

Currently, only about 50% of American youths live in traditional two-parent, first-marriage families. This fact, combined with often bleak economic and social realities, creates the backdrop of interactions between families, children, and schools are examined in this probing volume. Answering a need for evaluative research in this area of increasing public interest, the contributors build a model for evaluation, focusing on the dynamics of family-school connections. How is school achievement influenced by parent-child interactions and the family environment? How do school, family, community, and peer-group connections affect early adolescents? What is the family’s role in the success of learning-disabled youth or in school truancy? What effect does parental discord and divorce have on a child’s learning?

These questions, as well as proposals for intervention and prevention, create the crux of this book designed to inform and motivate readers to respond to one of our country’s most fundamental social concerns. Vital reading for everyone who wants to better understand child-school-community interaction, this book especially warrants reading by students, researchers, and other professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, psychology, and social work.

The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child
Linda Dobson

The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child

This comprehensive guide will help you determine the appropriate first steps, build your own educational philosophy, and discover the best ways to cater to your child’s specific learning style.

The Gift of ADHD: How to Transform Your Child's Problems Into Strengths
Lara Honos-Webb

The Gift of ADHD: How to Transform Your Child's Problems Into Strengths

The goal of this book is to help readers recast the paradigm they use to think about the condition, encouraging them to help ADHD kids develop their unique gifts. It begins with an overview of current ADHD diagnosis including definitions and a sample of a case study. Each subsequent chapter reframes certain ADHD symptoms in a positive way and reinforces this transformation with awareness exercises designed to increase the appreciation of the child’s traits.

The Gift of Dyslexia
Ronald Davis, Eldon M. Braun

The Gift of Dyslexia

The revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic in the category.

This book outlines a unique and revolutionary program with a phenomenally high success rate in helping dyslexics learn to read and to overcome other difficulties associated with it. This new edition is expanded to include new teaching techniques and revised throughout with up-to-date information on research, studies, and contacts.

The Hard Life of Seymour E. Newton
Ann Bixby Herold

The Hard Life of Seymour E. Newton

Peter does well in third-grade math. But, somehow, in writing and spelling, by the time the letters get from his brain to his paper, they get turned around. His Dad thinks he’s lazy. Peter just wants to get sick and stay home from school. It takes the perseverance of a spider named Seymour to help Peter work to overcome his learning problems.

The Human Side of Dyslexia
Shirley Kurnoff

The Human Side of Dyslexia

This book is about people and about the challenges and rewards of living with dyslexia. The author’s goal is to give the reader encouragement, and to de-emphasize the negativity that comes with a learning difference. The 142 interviews are packed with practical coping strategies that will help you get through your journey with dyslexia.

The Kissing Hand
Audrey Penn

The Kissing Hand

Chester Raccoon doesn’t want to go to school - he wants to stay home with his mother. She tells him he’ll make new friends and read new stories. Plus, she’s going to share a special, family secret with him - the Kissing Hand. This secret, she tells him, will make school seem as cozy as home.

The Late Talker: What to Do If Your Child Isn't Talking Yet
Marilyn C. Agin, Lisa F. Geng, Malcolm Nicholl

The Late Talker: What to Do If Your Child Isn't Talking Yet

Every parent eagerly awaits the day his or her child will speak for the first time. For millions of mothers and fathers, however, anticipation turns to anxiety when those initial, all-important words are a long time coming. Many worried parents are reassured that their child is “just a late talker,” but unfortunately, that is not always the case.

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