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Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about It

by Regalena Melrose

Here is a timely response to the research findings of the last decade. It focuses on the need to understand just how prevalent trauma is in the lives of our students, how it impacts the brain, subsequent learning,...

Different Learners: Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child's Learning Problems

by Jane M. Healy

"My child is having trouble in school.

What should I do?"

When parents are told that their child is having difficulty in school, they often don’t know where to turn for reliable information and advice. They...

Improving Disabled Students' Learning: Experiences and Outcomes

by Mary Fuller, Jan Georgeson & Mick Healey

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support?

This book...

Identifying and Supporting Children with Specific Learning Difficulties: Looking Beyond the Label to Support the Whole Child

by Pamela Deponio & Christine Macintyre

Many children experience difficulties which impact on their learning at home and school. Some children are considered to have a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia or dyspraxia, but other children...

Using Literacy to Develop Thinking Skills with Children Aged 7-11

by Paula Iley

These creative off-the-shelf activities will spark children's thinking skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing. Busy teachers wanting to shake up their lessons will find them indispensable. Includes:...

An A to Z Practical Guide to Learning Difficulties

by Harry Ayers & Francesca Gray

Accessing up-to-date information about general and specific learning difficulties is made easy, with this indispensable reference book. Covering difficulties that relate to children, adolescents and adults,...

Life After High School: A Guide for Students with Disabilities and Their Families

by Susan Yellin & Christina Cacioppo Bertsch

Focussing specifically on the issues that affect students with disabilities, the authors offer advice on everything from dealing with college entrance exams and the college application process, to selecting...

Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization and a New Moral Community

by Heather Keith & Kenneth D. Keith

Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities....

Common SENse for the Inclusive Classroom: How Teachers Can Maximise Existing Skills to Support Special Educational Needs

by Richard Hanks

The book acts as a teaching menu, offering a variety of options that teachers can use as and when they see fit. The author gets to the heart of issues associated with teaching mixed ability classes, offering...

Handbook of Learning Disabilities, Second Edition

by H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris & Steve Graham

Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this comprehensive handbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the nature and classification of learning disabilities (LD), their causes, and how...

Beautiful Child

by Torey Hayden

In the tradition of David Pelzer's A Child Called 'It' comes the unsettling story of a mute, almost catatonic seven–year–old and the special education teacher who tries to save her from the silence and abuse...

Analysing Low Attainers in the Global Knowledge Economy

by Sally Tomlinson

What happens to young people who are defined as lower attainers or having learning difficulties in a global knowledge economy?

How do we stop those with learning difficulties or disabilities being seen as social...

Dyscalculia: Action plans for successful learning in mathematics

by Glynis Hannell

Based on expert observations of children who experience difficulties with maths this book gives a comprehensive overview of dyscalculia, providing a wealth of information and useful guidance for any practitioner....

Numeracy and Learning Difficulties: Approaches to Teaching and Assessment

by Peter Westwood

By understanding why children struggle with maths, teachers are better equipped to provide effective support and nurture confidence in low-achievers.

Numeracy and Learning Difficulties includes how to tackle...

Dyslexia and Inclusion: Classroom approaches for assessment, teaching and learning

by Gavin Reid

Now fully updated, Dyslexia and Inclusion aims to equip all teachers with the necessary knowledge of dyslexia in order to for it to be effectively understood and dealt with in the classroom.

The book is based...

Differentiated Instruction: Meeting the Needs of All Students In Your Classroom

by Marcie Nordlund

Offers teachers practical and proven methods of instruction for working with a wide variety of learners in their classrooms.

Problem Solver Guide for Students with ADHD: Ready-to-Use Interventions for Elementary and Secondary Students

by Harvey C. Parker

Parents and teachers need strategies for helping children with ADHD who have problems in organization, behavior, study habits, reading, written language, and socialization. The hundreds of solutions offered...

The Short Bus

by Jonathan Mooney

A young man once called unteachable journeys across America to investigate the lives of those, like himself, who are forced to create new ways of living in order to survive Labeled "dyslexic and profoundly...

Living With Dyslexia: The social and emotional consequences of specific learning difficulties/disabilities

by Barbara Riddick

Presenting case studies and interviews with all those concerned, combined with an up-to-date account of current thinking, this book provides an accessible and realistic account of dyslexia. Through listening...

Study Skills and Dyslexia in the Secondary School: A Practical Approach

by Marion Griffiths

This book is aimed at those who encounter secondary school students with dyslexia on a daily basis. It takes a practical approach by breaking down the whole process of assessing the issues involved and then...