Learning Disabilities: There Is a Cure, A guide for Parents, Educators and Physicians - Softcover

Addie Cusimano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972776273 ISBN 13: 9780972776271

Publisher: Achieve Publications, 2010

Synopsis

Statistical reports indicate that 2.7 million public school students nationwide have been identified as learning disabled, and that fifty percent of all high school dropouts come from inner city schools where twenty-five percent are learning disabled. Since learning disabled students innately have average to superior IQ s, why can t they learn? For years educators have been in search of the right reading approach, one that would meet the needs of all children. Since the early 1900 s we have switched from a sight approach, to a phonetic approach, linguistic, whole language, integrated, and now, a researched based, balanced approach. The No Child Left Behind Act has set a goal that by 2014, all children in the United States are to be proficient in reading. The dilemma lies in how this is to be accomplished even with this improved balanced approach. Educational specialist Addie Cusimano shares her findings which are based on her research, work and success with students from pre-school to

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About the Author

Addie Cusimano holds a BS degree in psychology and a MS degree in education with New York State and Pennsylvania reading specialist certifications. She has worked for more than thirty-five years as a classroom teacher and reading specialist in public school districts and as a diagnostician and clinician for a private learning center that specialized in working with children from learning disabled to gifted. Ms. Cusimano is the author of the following teaching materials designed to develop specific learning skills: Achieve: A Visual Memory Program, designed to help children develop visual memory of words, Auditory Sequential Memory Instructional Workbook and Visual Discrimination: Noting Differences in Frequently Misperceived Words workbook. She is named in Marquis' Who Who in American Education. Her work is internationally recognized.

Review

A first-rate consultation book (5 stars) Learning Disabilities: There Is A Cure by educator Addie Cusimano (a specialist in the field of reading) is an instructional guide specifically written for parents, educators, and physicians concerning practiced and proven techniques to overcoming the extra challenges of dyslexia and other learning disorders that affect students across America. A first-rate consultation book drawn from an extensive field of practical experience and offering time-proven methods that work, Learning Disabilities is very highly recommended reading for anyone charged with the responsibility of educating a child with a learning barrier. --Learning Disabilities Association of California

Both educators and parents will benefit from this easy to read, insightful and informative book. Cusimano does an excellent job in connecting theory with practice due to her extensive years of research. Her easy to follow step by step instructions makes this book a valuable tool that can truly change the lives of many academically frustrated children and their parents. --Director of Guidance --School Psychologists and Social Workers

This book sheds new light on what is needed to greatly improve the academic level of students, from learning disabled (dyslexic) to those who are not classified as learning disabled, and dramatically lower the high school drop-out rate. It is a book that parents, educators (pre-school through college), and physicians who work with students with learning problems will want to read. It is also an excellent source for teacher training courses and workshops. --From the --From the Publisher

About this edition

• Publisher: Achieve Publications
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0972776273
• ISBN 13: 9780972776271
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 186
• Illustrator: Addie Cusimano