Square Pegs, Round Holes: The Learning-Disabled Child in the Classroom and at Home - Hardcover

Levy, Harold B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316522325 ISBN 13: 9780316522328

Publisher: Little, Brown & Co., 1974

Synopsis

This book is about the learning-disabled child: who he is, how you can recognize him, and how you - as a parent, as a teacher, as a doctor - can help him. "Square Pegs, Round Holes" is a sensitive and sensible look by a practicing pediatrician at both the learning-disabled child and what CAN be done to help him. Dr. Harold B. Levy, co-medical director of the Caddo Foundation for Exceptional Children, begins by defining what constitutes a specific learning disability. He lists and explains the symptoms that a learning-disabled child may show: hyper- or hypoactivity, occasional clumsiness, abnormal sleep patterns, short attention span, perceptual and memory difficulties, poor abstract reasoning, and inconsistency. He discusses conditions such as retardation, brain damage, psychological blocks, and youthful immaturity and demonstrates how they differ from specific learning disabilities and how they must be recognized and treated differently.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0316522325
• ISBN 13: 9780316522328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288