Roadblocks to Learning: Understanding the Obstacles That Can Sabotage Your Child's Academic Success - Softcover

Greene, Lawrence J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446679011 ISBN 13: 9780446679015

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

This book lays out the symptoms, terms, and strategies parents will encounter if their child has a learning block and explains how to convey their child's needs and condition to teachers. Categorized and cross-referenced for easy access, "Roadblocks to Learning" covers over 70 different obstacles to learning.

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Reviews

Greene, a special education diagnostician and therapist with over 30 years' experience in dealing with learning difficulties and the author of 30 books on the subject (e.g., Finding Help When Your Child Is Struggling in School), here provides an in-depth manual for parents trying to understand and work with a child with learning problems. Using lay reader's language, Greene distinguishes six general categories of learning disabilities-academic, applied intelligence, behavior, perceptual processing, psychological issues, and speech and language-and explains how each applies to children. He also describes common symptoms and causes of learning disabilities, advantages and disadvantages of remedial and special education programs, and, most important, how parents can ensure that their child can exercise his or her legal rights to an equal-educational experience. The text is cross-referenced and indexed to assist readers in finding needed information quickly, and federal legislation is summarized in an appendix. This book will be extremely useful in public libraries, and academic libraries might want to acquire it to help education students get a basic understanding of special education.
Mark Bay, Cumberland Coll. Lib., Williamsburg, KY
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

At any given time, about 15 percent of children in American classrooms are struggling with schoolwork, according to Greene, who has 30 years of experience as an educational therapist and teacher. His book is aimed at providing parents with information to understand their child's learning problems and to correct them, from attention deficit disorder to test anxiety and dyslexia. Greene details the factors that contribute to learning disabilities, including focusing, memory, reading comprehension, time management, and planning. He offers solid advice on how parents can work effectively with teachers and school personnel to address a child's learning difficulties and to make sure the child's needs are met. Greene outlines an array of learning disabilities, defines education jargon, and describes testing procedures. The book is divided into common learning problems: academics, applied intelligence, behavior, perceptual processing, psychological factors, and speech and language. Each section details the causes and symptoms, offers definitions, decodes education jargon, and describes testing procedures. A helpful resource for parents concerned about their children's learning abilities. Vanessa Bush
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Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446679011
• ISBN 13: 9780446679015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496