The following resources offer material you
can use to become more informed about learning differences. They encompass a
broad range of viewpoints and approaches to the issues. The list is
compiled from books, Web sites, and multimedia that we consulted during the
production of this Web site, or that our advisors recommended. Further guidance
about how to find resources in your community is offered below.
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Resources for Learning
All
Kinds of Minds
Provides resources to help parents, educators, and clinicians understand why a
child is struggling in school and how to help each child become a more
successful learner. The Web site provides a free monthly newsletter, articles
by Dr. Mel Levine and others, case studies, discussion groups, a LearningBase
of strategies, and much more.
FableVision
FableVision’s educational solutions include Stationery Studio, Brain Cogs, and
Essay Express. These products provide activities that strengthen basic skills,
including writing, reading, and comprehension, articulation of ideas, research,
and problem solving.
Family
Education
Parents find practical guidance, grade-specific information about their
children’s school experience, strategies to get involved with their children’s
learning, free email newsletters, and fun and entertaining family activities.
The Hallowell
Center
The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health specializes in the
understanding and managing of attention deficits, worry/anxiety, and child and
adult learning difficulties.
The Hello
Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation
William Cosby Foundation Dedicated to helping you learn about Ennis William
Cosby, about the foundation established in his memory, and about learning and
learning differences. The site offers resources and informati on on how parents
and teachers can help individuals with learning differences.
KidsHealth
Created by The Nemours Foundation’s Center for Children’s Health Media,
KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health
information they can use.
LD Online
Features thousands of helpful articles on learning disabilities and ADHD,
monthly columns by noted experts in the field, a free and confidential question
and answer service, active bulletin boards, and a Yellow Pages referral
directory of professionals, schools, and products.
Learning
Disabilities Association of America
Provides a wealth of information on understanding learning disabilities,
negotiating the special education process, and helping your child and yourself.
National Center for
Learning Disabilities
An online guide to essential information about learning disabilities, early
literacy and learning resources, support for adolescents and adults with LD,
public policy, and advocacy tools.
Parents'
Action for Children
Parents' Action develops parent education materials, connects parents with one
another, and fights for issues such as early education, health care, and high
quality and affordable child care.
PBS Parents
PBS Parents Guides address important aspects of your child’s early years such
as school readiness and social and emotional development. You can also find
information about your children’s favorite PBS KIDS programs: schedules for
your local area, educational activities related to the programs, and
explanations of educational goals.
Schwab
Learning
A parent’s guide to helping kids with learning difficulties that emphasizes
useful information and practical strategies for children in kindergarten
through high school. With over 350 research based articles, resources, message
boards, email newsletter and more, parents will find the guidance and support
they need.
Professional Organizations
American Academy
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Provides information on child and adolescent psychiatry, fact sheets for
parents and caregivers, current research, practice guidelines, managed care
information, and much more.
American Academy of
Pediatrics
Contains general information for parents of children from birth through age 21.
American
Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional
organization that represents psychology in the United States.
American
Occupational Therapy Association
Advances the quality, availability, use, and support of occupational therapy
through standard-setting, advocacy, education, and research on behalf of its
members and the public.
American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Provides resources to help you understand communication and communication
disorders, as well as a professional referral service for access to qualified
care.
Center for Law
and Education
The Center for Law and Education (CLE) strives to make the right of all
students to quality education a reality throughout the nation and to help
enable communities to address their own public education problems effectively,
with an emphasis on assistance to low-income students and communities.
National
Association of Private Schools for Exceptional Children
The National Association of Private Special Education Centers (NAPSEC) is a
non-profit association whose mission is to represent private special education
centers and their leaders.
Locate Local Resources
Remember that you're not in this alone. Local
organizations and individuals in your community can provide help to students
whose lives are affected by learning differences and disabilities.
To find local resources in your community, speak to school personnel, query
local academic institutions, and check the general resources for online
communities, community resources, local chapters, branches, or members. Many
state departments of education have public information on finding local
programs. Contact their public information office. Your library and school
district will also be able to provide valuable information about the
educational options available to your child.
Disclaimer: This information is being provided in an
effort to help people find local professionals and resources. We do not
recommend or endorse any particular referral source, type of professional, or
specific professional.
A Mind at a Time – Mel Levine (2003)
Explains how to identify individual learning patterns in children and maximize
their success in life.
All Kinds of Minds-Guidelines
– Mel Levine (1993)
Guidelines explain the purpose and rationale behind the book (see For Kids),
the book’s organization, and a chapter-by-chapter analysis of how to present
the content to students in the classroom or at home.
Educational Care – Mel Levine (1994)
Presents a model, a way of thinking about many of the common forms of learning
disorders, their recognition, their implications, and their treatment.
The Essential Conversation: What Parents and
Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
– Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2003)
Narrative that offers parents a way to open communication lines and
collaborative alliances with teachers; captures the dynamics of the complex,
intense relationship from the perspective of both parents and teachers.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen
So Kids Will Talk
– Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish (1999)
Employs a dialogue technique to help parents talk to their children about
issues ranging from schoolwork to peer problems and how these issues interfere
with learning.
IDEA 2004: A Parent Handbook for School Age
Children with Learning Disabilities
– Shelly Smith (2006)
Provides an overall look at special education as related to rights and
services, a complete introduction to special education law, and basic
information needed to advocate effectively for children.
Jarvis Clutch – Social Spy – Guidelines for
Use – Mel Levine (2001)
Comprehensive manual is designed to help parents and teachers best understand
how to use Jarvis Clutch—Social Spy (see For Kids) at home and in the
classroom.
Learning to Learn
– Carolyn Olivier and Rosemary Bowler (1996)
Provides guidelines for creating education programs tailored to individuals’
needs and abilities.
Learning to Learn: Strengthening Study Skills
and Brain Power
– Gloria Fender (1996)
Ideas, practical hints, methods, procedures, and resources that provide
hands-on materials for study skills, including note-taking, organizational
skills, test-taking, memory skills, power reading, problem solving, and time
management.
The Myth of Laziness – Mel Levine (2002)
As it explores the dysfunctions that result in output failure, this book
uncovers some of the principal ingredients of successful output.
Ready or Not, Here Life Comes – Mel Levine
(2005)
After decades of observing children grow into young adults, Dr. Levine
addresses the question of why some youngsters make a successful transition into
adulthood while others do not.
Smart Kids with School Problems: Things to
Know and Ways to Help
– Priscilla Vail (1989)
Offers strategies and suggestions for helping kids who struggle with learning
at school and at home.
Developing Minds Multimedia Library (2002)
The series offers practical, proven tools and strategies for academic and
social success, promotes a fuller understanding of learning differences
(including strengths as well as weaknesses), and explores the relationship
between learning and key brain function (like memory and attention) that impact
a student’s ability to succeed in school.
How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop – Richard Lavoie
(1989)
This program looks at the world through the eyes of a learning-disabled child
by taking you to a unique workshop attended by parents, educators,
psychologists and social workers.
"Inside the Teenage Brain" (2002)
FRONTLINE chronicles how scientists are exploring the recesses of the brain and
finding some new explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do.
Misunderstood Minds (2002)
Follow the compelling personal stories of five children and their families,
struggling with learning differences, in this 90-minute documentary.
Reaching Minds – Mel Levine (1997)
Reaching Minds is an innovative and resourceful audiocassette series which
demystifies learning and specifically helps parents, educators, and clinicians
help children with learning differences.
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Children
and Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Through collaborative leadership, advocacy, research, education and support,
CHADD provides science-based, evidence-based information about AD/HD to
parents, educators, professionals, the media and the general public.
The National
Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Focused on the needs of adults and young adults with ADD/ADHD, and their
children and families.
Delivered from Distraction
– Edward Hallowell & John Ratey (2005)
Through the vivid stories of the experiences of their patients, the authors
show the varied form ADD takes and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis
and treatment.
Driven to Distraction
– Edward Hallowell & John Ratey (1995)
Provides accessible, engaging discussion of every aspect of Attention Deficit
Disorder.
Taking Charge of ADHD
– Russell Barkley (2000)
Empowers parents by arming them with the up-to-date knowledge, expert guidance,
and confidence they need.
"ADHD Treatments: The Medication Debate." Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder. National Institute of Mental Health, 2000.
"Born to
Explore! The Other Side of ADD" – Teresa Gallagher
"Dr. Sam Goldstein Speaks with SchwabLearning.org about AD/HD & Coexisting
Conditions." Question and Answer. Schwab Learning.
"Dr. Sam Goldstein Speaks with SchwabLearning.org about AD/HD &
Self-Control." Question and Answer. Schwab Learning.
"Medicating Kids." Frontline. PBS Online and WGBH/Frontline,
2001.
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AdLit.org
AdLit.org offers research-based information and extensive resources to parents
and educators – anyone interested in helping students in grades 4-12 become
better readers and writers.
Reading
Rockets
Reading Rockets offers a wealth of strategies, lessons, and activities designed
to help young children learn to read. These resources assist parents, teachers,
and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional
help in reading and comprehension skills development.
Read•Write•Think
ReadWriteThink is a partnership between the International Reading Association
(IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MCI
Foundation to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality
practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free,
Internet-based content.
The Language Parts Catalog – Guidelines
– Mel Levine (1999)
The Guidelines for Use offer the rationale behind the materials and give
suggestions for how to integrate Language Parts Catalog (see For Kids) into the
classroom or in a tutorial or counseling session.
"Brain Research and Reading." - Sally Shaywitz and Bennett Shaywitz (2000)
"Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children" – Catherine Snow, M. Susan
Burns, and Peg Griffin, eds. (1998)
"Ten Years of Brain Imaging Research Shows the Brain Reads
Sound by Sound." - Child Development Institute (2001)
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Aesop’s
Fables
Online collection of Aesop’s fables includes a total of over 655 fables,
indexed in table format, with morals listed.
AOL@SCHOOL
Seires of six online learning stations designed for grades K-2, 3-5, middle
school, and high school. Each station provides a suite of functional online
tools such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, a calculator and many other research
tools.
BrainConnection.com – Brain Teasers
Games designed to exercise the processes involved in attending to and
remembering information. This group of games works at training the basic
fundamentals necessary for language, listening, and reading.
Brainy Kids
Online
Children, parents, and teachers will find activities, lab and lesson plans, and
links to excellent resources about the brain.
Discovery
Channel School
Includes learning tools such as online puzzle maker, clip art, and learning
adventures that explore everything from Ancient Egypt to the Space Station.
FableVision
FableVision’s educational solutions include Stationery Studio, Brain Cogs, and
Essay Express. These products provide activities that strengthen basic skills,
including writing, reading, and comprehension, articulation of ideas, research,
and problem solving.
KidsHealth
KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own
design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are literally thousands of
in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources.
Make
Beliefs Comix
Parents and children can create stories together, print them to create comic
books, or email them to friends and family. Select from 10 fun characters with
different moods – happy, sad, angry, worried – and write words for blank talk
and thought balloons to make their characters talk and think. There also are
story ideas and prompts to help users create graphic stories.
PBS Kids
Join your kids as they learn and play with all of their favorite characters
through games, music, stories and more. For kids up to 8 years old.
PBS Kids Go!
PBS site for older children where they can share their opinions and stories,
play games, and solve puzzles. For kids ages 6-12.
SparkTop
SparkTop.org™ is the first website created expressly for kids with learning
difficulties. By educating kids about learning, helping them recognize their
strengths, showcasing their creativity and offering safe ways for kids to
contments of education have public information on finding local programs.
Contact their public information office. Your library and school district will
also be able to provide valuable information about the educational options
available to your child.
All Kinds of Minds - Mel Levine (1993)
Written to help children in the elementary grades (7-11 years old) understand
how they learn and how they may have different strengths and weaknesses in some
areas of learning.
A Bird's Eye View of Life with ADD & ADHD
- Chris Zeigler Dendy & Alex Zeigler (2003)
Written expressly for teenagers, preteens, and young adults by teenagers and a
young adult who are struggling with ADD or ADHD. This survival guide for teens,
preteens, and young adults offers factual information and practical advice in
words and examples that young people can easily understand and put into
practice.
Bringing Up Parents
- Alex Packer (1993)
A fun way for teenagers to apply "parent psychology" to solve parent-teen
problems or head them off before they happen, to create a healthier, happier
home environment for everyone.
The Concentration Cockpit - Mel Levine (1997)
The Concentration Cockpit is a tool students can use self-analyze and better
understand their attention controls. Designed for grades K-6, the Concentration
Cockpit is a fun and informative way for students to learn more about
attention, an area that is problematic for many of them.
It’s So Much Work to Be Your Friend
- Richard Lavoie (2005)
This book offers practical strategies to help learning disabled children ages
six through seventeen navigate the treacherous social waters of their school,
home, and community.
Jarvis Clutch - Social Spy - Mel Levine (2001)
Jarvis's spy notes provide a bird's eye view of the often traumatic social
experiences middle school students are bound to encounter. His wry perspective
is alternated with commentary and wisdom from Dr. Levine, who provides an
analysis of social situations from an expert's perspective and shares the
terminology that students need to understand what it is that makes social
interactions so difficult.
Keeping A Head In School - Mel Levine (1994)
Written to help older students (from 11 years and up) understand and appreciate
their own distinct learning profiles.
The Language Parts Catalog - Mel Levine (1999)
This "catalog" for students in 7th to 10th grade explains the various aspects
of language and how they operate. While learning and reading about language,
students can fill out an "order form" requesting the language parts they would
like and indicating how much they need the parts.
The Memory Factory - Mel Levine (2000)
Compares memory to a factory and discusses how short term memory, active
working memory, and long term memory work. Written for students in 7th to 12th
grade, The Memory Factory explains memory difficulties and strategies students
can use.
Organizing from the Inside Out for Teens
- Julie Morgenstern and Jessi Morgenstern-Colon (2002)
Assesses the symptoms of disorganization and offers strategies for change, from
backpacks to social calendars.
A Walk in the Rain with a Brain
– Edward Hallowell (2004)
Charming illustrations and a funny, whimsical story teach children to play and
learn in order to find the strengths they have -- and a discussion guide at the
end gives parents and educators the background support they need in order to
help children understand and discover the sparkling individuality of their
minds.
All Kinds of Minds-Cassette Recording - Mel
Levine (1993)
This collection of five 90-minute cassettes features the author, Dr. Mel
Levine, reading the text of All Kinds of Minds verbatim.
Brain Cogs,
the Test-Taking Survival Kit: Your Personal Interactive Coach for Learning and
Studying (2001)
An interactive multi-sensory program designed to tap into student learning
styles to develop personalized strategies that will help before, during and
after a test (Grades 4-8).
Keeping A Head in School-Cassette Recordings -
Mel Levine (1994)
This collection of six 90-minute cassettes features the author, Dr. Mel Levine,
reading the text of Keeping A Head in School verbatim.
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