Learning Re-enabled

By Susan Orloff

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971600503
• ISBN13: 9780971600508
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Childrens Special Services Llc
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 7.5" x 0.5"

Customer Reviews

helping your child when your magic wand doesn't work

Based on the review in the National education Association Journal, Nov.2002, this book is everything it promises! It is about time teachers and parents got on the same side of the fence, and this book helps!

Understanding both sides of the educational table

This book gets it right: teachers are not magic fairies, they cannot make something happen just because the parent wants it, and parents cannot just want "it" to be better; and no one person, teacher, parent, therapist can affect change alone. All must work together! Parent/teacher exchanges would be more productive if empathically each could view the situation from the others perspective. This book accomplishes this and more. Schools cannot do the job of family and home; but they can do "the job" if they know how to communicate. Publlic school teachers and administrators are running at "capacity". They are caring people, over-stretched. This book helps them work smarter not harder. This book helps parents focus on the important issues, while it gives form and language to hard to express feelings and situations. Private school teachers and administators can also benefit from this book. Understanding that enrollment in an "A" ranked school does not preclude learning issues is important. How to confront the issues empathically and intelligently is the mission of this book and it accomplishes that and more. It is not a "cookbook". It is a small well-stocked store offering many conbinations of options from which one may choose.

Author responds to Lousiana Reader

As a former resource teacher, a parent of 3 children with learning issues, and an occupational therapist, my book is about giving views from all three perspectives. It is not intended to be a treatment guide. It is intended to help everyone get on the same page. Formal IEP goals usually read"...child will read 6 out of 10 sight words with 60% within 6 months" These goals are missing the essence of the child and promotes confusion and adversarial postions. Talking to "dreams, fears, frustrations and joys" is more in keeping with what schools, parents, and the child themselves really want. They want to be "happy"; and happiness is about feeling compentent and that is what the book is about!

The mystery of learning disabilities revealed!!

As a former resouce teacher, I wish this book had been around when I had to give adivice to parents. It would have taken a lot of the mystery and the un-needed pain out of the words, "learning disabled". This type of book is long over-due! It doesn't tell you how to do "it" right, it guides you so that you can make informed decisions comfortably. It's like having a "best friend" to talk with on a subject that is probably more painful for the parent than the child.

Helpful to any parent whose child may need OT

I bought the book and have just finished reading it. I found it easy to read and filled with compassion. The author anticipated my questions --- and asked questions I had not thought of. It's full of useful information. I liked the book's format and the artwork is delightful.I suspect this is the kind of book one can go back to and re-read and learn something new.I would recommend this book to any parent whose child may need OT. Of special interest to me was the fact that this author is speaking from personal and professional experience.Laura Goldsmith, parentMarch 13, 2002