Book on children with LD for teachers

It’s too expense, and they’d probably never watch it, but I’d love for teachers to see this tape.

http://www.ldonline.org/article.php?id=88&loc=66

I watched the free preview. It looks really, really good. Perhaps one of his books?

Barb

I’ve always wanted to watch that tape. I’ll check into what he has written.

Thanks, bgb

Forget the book — I’d get a copy of the tape for the school & talk to whoever I had to to make sure that this was part of the inservice training, say, the week before school.

The video is much more effective than most words could possibly be. That belief that LD kiddos just need to try harder and get whipped into shape is *exactly* what the video addresses.

There’s a great little snippet where a woman *cannot* see something in a picture, and LaVOie whips out a ten dollar bill, or maybe a hundred dollar bill, and says, “This is yours if you can tell me! ” … and makes the point “is her problem motivation??? I don’t think so!”

Also, giving somebody a present to improve themselves professionally isn’t going to work if they don’t read it and the clueless are also often very busy (trying to find clues, which sometimes we even do :-)) and don’t get around to reading.

Thanks Sue. I sent an e-mail to the counselor to make sure they don’t have it. I’m going to get the school their own copy.

My son is classified LD and gifted as many LD kids are. Some teachers seem to think that if they are gifted they should be able to take care of business! :roll:

Then be sure to be a gentle pest and find out *when* they show it. (If you could find at least another parent or a counselor or somebody to back up your petition that they see it, it owuld help more).