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School Struggles : A Guide to Your Shut-down Learner's Success
by Selznick, RichardISBN13:
9781591811787
ISBN10:
1591811783
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
8/16/2012
Publisher(s):
Natl Book Network
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Summary
In School Struggles, Dr. Richard Selznick (author of the acclaimed The Shut-Down Learner) covers a broad scope of potential problems faced by schoolchildren, offering techniques and insights for success. Dr. Selznick explores reading and writing issues, behavioral problems, social skills, medication, parents' interactions with teachers, difficulties with organization, excessive use of technology, the importance of patience, and more. The practical, down-to-earth tone and helpful, easily applicable tools make this book a godsend for parents who stay awake at night worrying about their child's learning and school experience. Dr. Selznick's understanding that each child is unique has helped many of them navigate over a rough road safely. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Dr. Richard Selznick is a psychologist, nationally certified school psychologist, adjunct graduate school professor, and assistant professor of pediatrics. He has helped parents with their children's struggles in school for more than 25 years, and has experience as a classroom teacher and special education instructor as well. As the director of the Cooper Learning Center, Department of Pediatrics, Cooper University Hospital, he oversees a program that assesses and treats a broad range of learning and school-based behavioral problems in children.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Struggling on the Reading Road | p. 19 |
| Your Reading Brain | p. 21 |
| Dyslexia/Reading Disability and Common Sense | p. 23 |
| Old School Concept #1: Stages of Reading Development | p. 25 |
| Stage 0 | p. 27 |
| Kindergarten Mom: "Help! My child is shutting down!" | p. 29 |
| Stage I: Getting on the Bike | p. 30 |
| Stage II: Riding the Bike | p. 33 |
| "Mom! There's Lincoln Whatever Field" | p. 35 |
| Stage III: Independently Riding the Bike | p. 36 |
| Stages IV and V: Sophisticated Readers | p. 37 |
| Old School Concept #2: Instructional Level | p. 38 |
| Brief Tip: Get Clear on Your Focus with Reading Remediation | p. 41 |
| Listen to the Moms | p. 41 |
| All Aboard the Curriculum Ship | p. 43 |
| Messages from the Life Boats | p. 45 |
| Was This a Problem that Could Have Been Averted? | p. 47 |
| Vision and Learning | p. 48 |
| Low-Frequency versus High-Frequency Words | p. 50 |
| Simple Low-Frequency Word Strategy | p. 52 |
| "Daddy's tied up in traffic" | p. 54 |
| Hmmm, Let Me Think About It… | p. 55 |
| Questioning to Encourage Comprehension | p. 58 |
| BRDD: Boy Reading Deficit Disorder | p. 59 |
| Does Your Child Have Curriculum ADHD? | p. 61 |
| There Is No Joy in Educationville for Teaching Reading Has Struck Out | p. 62 |
| Struggling on the Reading Road: Summary Points | p. 64 |
| Struggling on the School Road (Adhd and Other Related Issues) | p. 67 |
| Step Right Up, Folks! | p. 70 |
| The Blind Men and the Elephant (Dissecting Childhood) | p. 72 |
| Two Roads | p. 74 |
| Doing the ADHD Dance | p. 75 |
| Clogged Fuel Lines | p. 77 |
| Age-Adjustment Strategy | p. 80 |
| ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) = BDD (Boredom Deficit Disorder) | p. 81 |
| ADHD Kryptonite: Lunchroom and Playground | p. 83 |
| Playing the Odds: Which Horse Would You Bet? | p. 84 |
| Common Sense arid Reasonable 504 Plans | p. 86 |
| Killing the Rainforest One IEP at a Time | p. 89 |
| Winning the Battle but Losing the War | p. 90 |
| Should a Child Be on Medication While Being Evaluated? Going Columbo | p. 93 |
| The Zone of No Zone | p. 94 |
| Inside the Head of a Boy with a Learning Disability! | p. 96 |
| Go to a Carpenter, You Get a Nail | p. 97 |
| The House Looks Fine: What's the Problem? | p. 99 |
| Help! I'm Being Held Hostage to My IQ | p. 101 |
| Inclusion: Support in the Deep End of the Pool | p. 102 |
| Old School Concept #3: Task Analysis | p. 104 |
| Howard Beale-Where Are You? | p. 106 |
| How Do We Fix It? | p. 107 |
| In the Neck Ache Business | p. 108 |
| Got the Cure for the Summertime Blues? | p. 110 |
| Screeching on the Violin | p. 111 |
| Open-Ended Writing: A Heavy Load for Many Kids | p. 112 |
| Opposite Approach to Open-Ended Writing | p. 115 |
| An Old-Fashioned Child Advocate | p. 117 |
| Struggling on the School Road (ADHD and Related Issues): Summary Points | p. 120 |
| Struggling on the Organizational Road | p. 123 |
| Executive Function Deficits: Floppy Rudders | p. 125 |
| We Keep Telling Him, "You've got to be organized. You've got to be organized!" | p. 127 |
| Go Up To Your Room and Do Your Work: The Perils | p. 129 |
| The School Keeps Saying "Stay out-they have to do it on their own" | p. 131 |
| Homework: The Great Battleground | p. 132 |
| Sluggish Cognitive Tempo | p. 134 |
| Weighing the Pain | p. 136 |
| Anger: "You can't make me" | p. 138 |
| Pain Avoiders in College | p. 140 |
| Putting Fuel in the Shut-Down Learner Tank | p. 142 |
| Study Skills Coach: Readiness Is Everything | p. 143 |
| Organizing the Disorganized-Skill of the Month | p. 145 |
| Master Notebook: Keeping the Disorganized on the Straight and Narrow | p. 146 |
| A Compound-Interest Mentality | p. 148 |
| Parental Grade Monitoring on the Internet | p. 150 |
| Struggling on the Organizational Road: Summary Points | p. 151 |
| Struggling on the Social Skills Road | p. 155 |
| "I don't want Greg at my birthday party" | p. 158 |
| No One to Play With | p. 159 |
| Sharks and Minnows | p. 161 |
| Sharks and Minnows (Continued) | p. 163 |
| School Bus Blues #1: Riding Shotgun | p. 164 |
| School Bus Blues #2: "Get out of bed, Pop" | p. 166 |
| Shyness-Perhaps | p. 168 |
| Pokemon and Dolly Madison | p. 170 |
| Avery: A Water Torture Personality Type | p. 172 |
| Alex-A Socially Reticent Child | p. 174 |
| How Can Parents Support the "Alexes" of the World? | p. 175 |
| Socializing in the Twenty-First Century | p. 178 |
| Those Little Interactions | p. 180 |
| Little Remorse and Not Much Compassion | p. 182 |
| Life According to Martin | p. 183 |
| Social Skills-The Last Word | p. 185 |
| Struggling on the Social Road: Summary Points | p. 186 |
| Struggling on the Parenting Road | p. 189 |
| My Head Is About to Explode! | p. 191 |
| Gumby Parenting | p. 193 |
| Are You a Curling Parent? | p. 194 |
| The 10 Percent Solution: Is Your POID Set Too High? | p. 195 |
| Hedonistic Pirates: Modern Indulgences | p. 197 |
| How Do You Measure, Measure a Year | p. 198 |
| Oppositional Children: Rigid, Inflexible and Difficult | p. 200 |
| Parents! You're off the Hook (Sort Of) | p. 202 |
| "Thanks for yelling, Mom! I see the light!" | p. 204 |
| New School Years Resolution: Stay Calm and End the Shenanigans | p. 206 |
| What Are the Triggers? | p. 207 |
| Dealing with the Triggers | p. 209 |
| Cool Anger: Put Yourself in Timeout | p. 211 |
| What Are the Odds? | p. 213 |
| Struggling on the Parenting Road: Summary Points | p. 214 |
| Final Words: Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood | p. 217 |
| Appendix | p. 220 |
| About the Author | p. 223 |
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