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Eli, The Boy Who Hated to Write: Understanding Dysgraphia
Regina G. Richards

Eli, The Boy Who Hated to Write: Understanding Dysgraphia

This book tries to help parents, teachers, and students understand dysgraphia. The book also suggests some specific strategies that people with dysgraphia can try. Throughout the story, Eli describes his feelings about writing and the reactions of his teachers and classmates. After an important adventure, Eli and his friends realize that everyone is different with their own strengths and weaknesses.

How to Reach and Teach Children and Teens with Dyslexia
Cynthia M. Stowe

How to Reach and Teach Children and Teens with Dyslexia

This comprehensive, practical resource gives educators at all levels essential information, techniques, and tools for understanding dyslexia and adapting teaching methods in all subject areas to meet the learning style, social, and emotional needs of students who have dyslexia. Special features include over 50 full-page activity sheets that can be photocopied for immediate use and interviews with students and adults who have had personal experience with dyslexia. Organized into twenty sections, information covers everything from ten principles of instruction to teaching reading, handwriting, spelling, writing, math, everyday skills, and even covers the adult with dyslexia.

I Know I Can Climb the Mountain
Dale S. Brown

I Know I Can Climb the Mountain

This anthology of poetry is organized to show the experience of a person who takes charge of her own life despite difficulties and challenges. Fifty-three poems and three short stories describe the experience of growing up. The author, a women who wrote these poems during her childhood and teenage years, experienced a difference currently called by many names; specific learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dylexia. She was in an ordinary class and received virtually no help for the challenges she experienced due to her handicaps.The poetry was published in journals of poetry, newspapers, and magazines when she was a teenager. Mountain Books asked the author to organize these poems into an anthology because the publisher believed they should be shared with today’s readers. They inspire and emmpower all people who have stuggled to overcome these difficulties. They sensitize parents and teachers who work to help children and adults who struggle. They show personal growth and encourage the reader to take responsibility for their own actions and experiences.

Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors
Nancy Mather, Sam Goldstein

Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors

This book uses the Building Blocks model. The Building Blocks model is practical, supported by research, and easy to implement. It identifies ten areas important to school success (the building blocks), divided into three levels:

  1. the foundational level includes attention and impulse control, emotion and behavior, self-esteem, and learning environment blocks
  2. the symbolic processing and memory level contains the visual, auditory, and motor skills blocks
  3. the conceptual level comprises using strategies and thinking with language and images
Overcoming Underachieving: An Action Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed in School
Sam Goldstein, Nancy Mather

Overcoming Underachieving: An Action Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed in School

In Overcoming Underachieving two nationally recognized experts in children’s school problems show you how to become your child’s advocate, coach, and guide through the educational process. Using numerous case examples, they help you pinpoint your child’s unique learning patterns and the problems that interfere with learning, behavior, and achievement. This information-packed book provides dozens of creative, parent-tested tools to help your child overcome difficulties with reading, math, handwriting, study skills, memorization, attention span, and many other problems that affect school success.

Phonics A to Z by Wiley Blevins
Wiley Blevins

Phonics from A to Z (Grades K-3)

Everything you wanted to know about phonics but were afraid to ask! This practical handbook, written by an early reading specialist, will show you how to build engaging, effective phonics practice into your reading-writing program. Lots of ready-to-use lessons, word lists, games and learning center ideas.

The School Survival Guide for Kids With LD
Rhoda Woods Cummings

The School Survival Guide for Kids With LD

This guide offers specific tips and strategies especially for unique learners like you. Use these “school tools” to help build confidence in reading, writing, spelling, math, and more. Learn to organize time, set goals, stick up for yourself, handle conflict, stay out of trouble, cope with testing, and get help from adults.

The Source for Learning Disabilities
Paula S. Currie, Elizabeth M. Wadlington

The Source for Learning Disabilities

This is the definitive source for information on learning disabilities. Get new information about federal mandates, teaming, transitioning, and involving parents. You’ll also have a thorough discussion of the social and emotional aspects of LD and a glossary of terms. Get well-organized information about five major disabilities: communication disorders, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and attention deficit disorder (ADD). For each of the five disabilities, you’ll have: definitions, characteristic charts, screening checklists, intervention tips and strategies, and a comprehensive list of resources.

The Writing Dilemma: Understanding Dysgraphia
Regina G. Richards

The Writing Dilemma: Understanding Dysgraphia

“Clearly it is time for a holistic approach to the understanding of writing. The Writing Dilemma offers an embarrassingly overdue breakthrough, as this most important work acknowledges and describes vividly the multiple possible breakdown points that must be considered in a child who is not developing writing skills.” Other sections include components that facilitate automatic writing performances, assessment techniques, and a variety of recommendations for compensations and remediation of writing problems.

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