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How the Special Needs Brain Learns

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As a high school teacher with several special education students in my classes, I found this book to be extremely informative. Written in plain language rather than a medical text, it helped me to understand better the problems these students face. The book contains numerous suggestions for activities and techniques that I have tried and they were very effective. I strongly recommend this book for any teacher (and parent)who deals with special needs children.

I have two special needs children and have found this volume indispensable. The material is presented in a concise, clear manner. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

I have been a special education teacher for 10 years and I found this book incredible informative and full of practical information. Highly recommended!

A cursory examination of a number of relatively mild disorders along with a few paragraphs about general instructional methods for each. For a book touting itself as "how the brain works" it contains an embarrassingly basic discussion of brain function, consistent with a high school anatomy and physiology textbook. The chapter on autism, while (finally)addressing a true "special need" would only be new information to a complete neophyte. This book is a disappointment. The title is the only weighty thing about it.

Please read this. These kids get lost because schools don't know to look for this. Compare this to your childs report. Good luck to all of you!

Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities : Lost Treasures

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D.

If you're looking for a book with technical jargon and research info at nauseum, this book isn't for you.

The hardest part of working with any individual with a disability is finding the right intervention because what works for one, doesn't work everyone. This book provides strategies to consider that have been written in simple terms, but that doesn't mean implementation is simple. If you're looking for ideas, this is a great resource. I buy many books at conference and few I wish to keep, but this one has been helpful when discussing with teachers and parents interventions to consider when working with various disabilities.

This is a great book for those first year teachers or students studying to work in special education. It would also make a good reference for regular education teachers. It has specific strategies and overviews for all disabilities.