Understanding Learning Disabilities : A Parent Guide and Workbook

Teamwork is essential in helping a child with learning disabilities. This book is the product of parents and professionals sharing years of experience to help you understand and cope with L.D. Champion your child's team by directing your time and energy to success, with Understanding Learning Diabilities: A Parent Guide and Workbook.

Easy-to-read, quick to access and overflowing with helpful information and advice, this one-stop guide will quickly be one of your most trusted supports for helping your child succeed in school. Whether your questions about learning disabilities are few or many, this tool holds the answers you seek.

How should you prepare for a meeting with your child's teacher? Which questions should you ask during that meeting? How should you organize records and reports? Can you ask for modifications if homework becomes overwhelming or discouraging. What is an IEP?

This book goes beyond definitions and answers to make the guidance you need both accessible and easy to implement. Not only will you find concise information, practical tips, and reproducible workbook pages, you'll also learn how to immediately apply what you've learned to help your child. This invaluable source also includes a glossary, appendices, case studies, and listings of resources and support groups.

If you're the parent of a child newly diagnosed as having a learning disability, if you suspect your child might have a learning disability or if you just need new ideas for enhancing your efforts with your child, this book is a must. It's a one-stop source you won't be able to put down.

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.