Making the Words Stand Still: A Master Teacher Tells How to Overcome Specific Learning Disability, Dyslexia, and Old-Fashioned Word Blindness

Lyman, Donald

ISBN 10: 0395486815 / ISBN 13: 9780395486818

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988

Seller Inventory # 0395486815-3-16889839

Synopsis:

An influential master teacher details his own struggle with dyslexia and presents an innovative, effective approach to helping the learning-disabled

From Library Journal: Lyman, a dyslexic who overcame his problems with letters and words, has devoted his professional life to teaching learning disabled children. Through an ecdotes from his own school days and quotations from and descriptions of his students, he paints a touching picture of the world of the learning disabled, filled with frustration, discouragement, and lowered self-esteem. In clear, easily understood terms, he discusses mind/ brain functions and the role of atten tion, memory, and the emotions, and pleads for better understanding. He brings fresh insight to familiar topics. A unique contribution is his set of instruc tions for teaching manuscript alphabet movements and for coordinating visual izing, audiotorializing or internalizing, and proprioceptializing or feeling words in muscles and joints. Shirley L. Hopkinson, Library & Information Science Div., California State Univ., San Jose
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Bibliographic Details

Title: Making the Words Stand Still: A Master ...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good