The Mislabeled Child How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success

by Eide, Brock; Eide, Fernette

• ISBN13: 9781401302252
• ISBN10: 1401302254
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781401384784
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Balance
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Summary

For parents, teachers, and other professionals seeking practical guidance about ways to help children with learning problems, this book provides a comprehensive look at learning differences ranging from dyslexia to dysgraphia, to attention problems, to giftedness. In The Mislabeled Child, the authors describe how a proper understanding of a childs unique brain-based strengths can be used to overcome many different obstacles to learning. They show how children are often mislabeled with diagnoses that are too broad (ADHD, for instance) or are simply inaccurate. They also explain why medications are often not the best ways to help children who are struggling to learn. The authors guide readers through the morass of commonly used labels and treatments, offering specific suggestions that can be used to help children at school and at home. This book offers extremely empowering information for parents and professionals alike. The Mislabeled Child examines a full spectrum of learning disorders, from dyslexia to giftedness, clarifying the diagnoses and providing resources to help. The Eides explain how a learning disability encompasses more than a behavioral problem; it is also a brain dysfunction that should be treated differently.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
The Mislabeled Child	1	(9)
How to Get the Most from This Book	10	(10)
Gone in Sixty Seconds: Memory Strengths and Weaknesses	20	(49)
Overlooking the Obvious: Visual Problems in Children	69	(41)
What? Huh? Auditory Problems in Children	110	(37)
The Communication Gap: Language Problems in Children	147	(44)
Getting It All Together: Attention Problems in Children	191	(56)
Making the Right Connections: Autism and Autism-Like Disorders	247	(42)
Mixed Messages: Sensory Processing Disorder	289	(41)
It's as Essy as ABC... or as Hard: Dyslexia in Children	330	(245)
Handwriting and Hand-Wringing: Dysgraphia in Children	575
When the Numbers Won't Add Up: Math Problems in Children	407	(24)
The Midas Touch: How Giftedness Can Cause Learning Challcnges in Children	431	(42)
Resources and References	473	(20)
Permissions	493	(2)
Index	495