It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success - Brossura

Lavoie, Richard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743254651 ISBN 13: 9780743254656

Casa editrice: Atria, 2006

Riassunto

A guide for parents, teachers, and caregivers of learning-disabled children draws on the theories presented in the author's best-selling PBS videos to explain how to instill social skills in disabled children, covering such topics as self-esteem, depression, and body language. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"The best guide of its kind ever written. . . a major achievement." -- Edward Hallowell, M.D.,Coauthor of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction

L'autore:

Richard Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed., has worked as a teacher and headmaster at residential special education facilities for the past thirty years. He holds three degrees in special education and serves as a consultant to several agencies and organizations. The father of three adult children, he lives with his wife in Barnstable, Massachusetts. He welcomes visitors to his website at www.ricklavoie.com

Mel Levine, M.D., is professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School and director of its Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning. He is the founder and cochairman of All Kinds of Minds, a nonprofit institute for the understanding of differences in learning, and the author of two previous national best-selling books, A Mind at a Time and The Myth of Laziness. He and his wife, Bambi, live on Sanctuary Farm in North Carolina.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Atria
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743254651
• ISBN 13: 9780743254656
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480