Taming the Dragons: Real Help for Real School Problems

If your child -- or some of your students or clients -- have learning or attentional problems, *you need this book.* TAMING THE DRAGONS was written by a teacher who worked with struggling students for nearly 20 years. The author's children have ADHD, and one also has a learning disability, and so the author has a unique and personal knowledge of what children with learning or attentional problems need. Both teacher and parent, she understands the need for solutions that are simple, fast, and *effective.* The result has been a book that provides hundreds of simple, common-sense solutions to all sorts of problems in a variety of subjects: reading, written expression, spelling, math and many more. Parents, teachers, special educators, and other professionals will all find this book easy to read and easy to use.

The author has taught students with learning or attentional problems for eighteen years. Now widowed, she has two nearly grown children (ages 17 and 19) who have successfully overcome the problems and inconveniences of both ADHD disabilities. Her educational philosophy and approach have been profoundly influenced by the work of Howard Gardner, Ph.D.; Mevin Levine, M.D.; and Maria Montessori, M.D. She teaches in suburban St. Louis, MO in a public school which uses Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences as guiding principles.