From the Publisher
Approximately 15% of parents face the frustrating challenge of raising a child with learning disabilities.
But where can parents - and the teachers of their children -find a practical road map and guide toward success in this daunting task?
They need look no further than the newly revised and updated 3rd edition of Understanding Learning Disabilities: A Parent Guide and Workbook. Parents who have successfully navigated this challenge, veteran teachers, advocates, lawyers, and doctors have banded together to create this instant, at-your-fingertips support system.
From early identification to graduation and beyond, the book word-paints the reality of enlivening and enriching the life of a child with learning disabilities, in easy-to-understand, plain English.
This parent-tested survival guide addresses multiple aspects in the life of a person with L.D. (and his/her family): diagnosis, coping as a family, self-esteem, discipline, IEPs, record management, pertinent legal issues, the challenges of the teenage years, college, transition to the "real world," facing life as an adult with learning disabilities, and more.
The workbook pages, which follow most chapters, help parents tailor the information to their own child’s needs. Parents will find tips on organizing, planning, and overseeing the whole spectrum of parenting and supervising the evolving needs of their maturing youngster with L.D.
The book is brimming with extensive lists of timesaving, must-have resources dedicated to learning disabilities. Included are web sites, books, and private and public facilities and organizations. Moreover, parents will take comfort in the compassionate and compelling personal stories detailing failures overcome, and the resulting heart-warming successes.
About the Author
Co-editor and author Mary Louise Trusdell has served as: public school LD teacher; founder and directors of the Specific Language Disability Department at Country Day School in Georgia; a director of a private school for secondary-level dyslexics; director of a VI-G federal LD program in rural Virginia; and for ten years, as Supervisor of Programs for the Learning Disabled for the Virginia Department of Education. She earned her B.A. degree as an English major; her M.Ed. degree from University of Virginia is in learning disabilities.
Inge W. Horowitz has degrees and experience in the fields of Pediatric Occupational Therapy and Special Education. During the last twenty-five years of her career she worked as Educational Consultant for the Virginia Department of Education, assigned to Neurology Clinics where she was part of the interdisciplinary team, performing educational assessments of children, advising parents, and consulting with schools. She is currently acting as Executive Director of the Learning Disabilities Council in Richmond, VA.
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