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A Mind at a Time
: :'Different minds learn differently,' writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known education experts and pediatricians in America today. And that's a problem for many children, because most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, these children struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the schools they are in.In A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and others who care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns. He explains how parents and teachers can encourage a child's strengths and bypass the child's weaknesses. This ...
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The Myth of Laziness
: : 'When we call someone lazy, we condemn a human being,' writes Mel Levine, M.D. In The Myth of Laziness, the bestselling author of A Mind at a Time shows that children dismissed as unproductive or 'lazy' usually suffer from what he calls 'output failure' -- a neurodevelopmental dysfunction that can continue to cause difficulties into adulthood if left unchecked. The desire to be productive is universal, says Dr. Levine, but that drive can often be frustrated by dysfunctions that obstruct output or productivity. Drawing on his clinical experience and using real-life ...
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It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
: :ADHD • Anxiety • Nonverbal • Communication • Disorders • Visual/Spatial • Disorders • Executive Functioning Difficulties As any parent, teacher, coach, or caregiver of a learning disabled child knows, every learning disability has a social component. The ADD child constantly interrupts and doesn't follow directions. The child with visual-spatial issues loses his belongings. The child with a nonverbal communication disorder fails to gesture when she talks. These children are socially out of step with their peers, and often they are ridiculed or ostracized for their differences. A successful social life is ...
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Ready or Not, Here Life Comes
: :MAKING A SUCCESSFULTRANSITION TO ADULTHOODMore than ever, young adults are struggling with career and life decisions that can sometimes seem overwhelming. Some return home to live with their parents, or find themselves in unsatisfying jobs, or lack a sense of direction in their lives. They suffer from what Dr. Mel Levine calls 'work-life unreadiness,' which prevents them from making the transition to full adulthood and which can cause considerable anguish. In Ready or Not, Here Life Comes, Dr. Levine examines why many young people seem to stall before beginning their adult lives ...
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Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling Learners
: :Revealing Minds is a practical, hands-on guide to assessing learning problems, based on the approach of All Kinds of Minds, the groundbreaking nonprofit institute co-founded by Mel Levine. Whereas most assessments of struggling learners focus on what is 'broken' within a student and needs to be fixed, All Kinds of Minds has adopted a more positive and comprehensive approach to the process. Rather than labeling children or categorizing them into certain pre-defined groups, their optimistic and helpful path creates a complete picture (or 'profile') of each student, outlining the child’s assets along ...
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Educational Care: A System for Understanding and Helping Children With Learning Problems at Home and in School
: :Revealing Minds is a practical, hands-on guide to assessing learning problems, based on the approach of All Kinds of Minds, the groundbreaking nonprofit institute co-founded by Mel Levine. Whereas most assessments of struggling learners focus on what is 'broken' within a student and needs to be fixed, All Kinds of Minds has adopted a more positive and comprehensive approach to the process. Rather than labeling children or categorizing them into certain pre-defined groups, their optimistic and helpful path creates a complete picture (or 'profile') of each student, outlining the child’s assets along ...
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Laughing Allegra: The Inspiring Story of a Mother's Struggle and Triumph Raising a Daughter with Learning Disabilities
: :Blending memoir with self-help, the remarkably honest and inspiring story about the struggle and triumph of raising a child with learning disabilities, by the great-granddaughter of Henry Ford and the Chairman Emeritus of the National Center for Learning Disabilities. When Anne Ford learned that her daughter Allegra's 'differences' were the result of severe learning disabilities, she faced a challenge that neither money nor position could ease. Desperate for answers and for help, she sought out doctors, schools, tutors, and summer camps and became an activist in national organizations to help children with ...
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Myth of Laziness
: :Blending memoir with self-help, the remarkably honest and inspiring story about the struggle and triumph of raising a child with learning disabilities, by the great-granddaughter of Henry Ford and the Chairman Emeritus of the National Center for Learning Disabilities. When Anne Ford learned that her daughter Allegra's 'differences' were the result of severe learning disabilities, she faced a challenge that neither money nor position could ease. Desperate for answers and for help, she sought out doctors, schools, tutors, and summer camps and became an activist in national organizations to help children with ...
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The Agent
: :In The Agent the reader will encounter wide-scale corruption in American sports.
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READY OR NOT, HERE LIFE COMES by Mel Levine, M.D. (2005 Hardcover AMERICA'S TOP LEARNING EXPERT SHOWS HOW TODAY'S SOCIETY MAKES IT HARD FOR KIDS TO GROW INTO PRODUCTIVE ADULTS, AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT)
: :READY OR NOT, HERE LIFE COMES by Mel Levine, M.D. 2005 Hardcover in dust jacket Simon & Schuster 286 pages.
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