Learning Re-Enabled: A Practical Guide to Helping Children with Learning Disabilities [Paperback]

Susan Orloff OTR/L (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0323027725 | ISBN-13: 978-0323027724 | Publication Date: April 14, 2004 | Edition: 2

Learning Re-enabled is designed to help therapists, teachers, and parents understand the learning disabled child. The author, through extensive professional experience and a special devotion to learning disabled children, developed this book to be a resource for professionals and parents as they sort out the best possible learning plan for the child who learns differently. This book takes the approach that no two children are the same and that one needs to decipher both the child's overt and covert behaviors to make informed choices about appropriate learning strategies.

• Explanations of learning disabilities are in "plain English" that is easy to understand for the parent, therapist, and teacher.
• The Individual Educational Plan meeting guidelines help parents and teachers take information from book and apply it directly to the child.
• Dispels the myth that every child needs the same therapy and explains how to find the correct approach specific to each child.
• The glossary of terms is functionally based and can be taught by professionals, or used by parents.
• Before and after samples of handwriting from learning disabled children present a clear look at the obstacles and successes of learning disabled children
• Explains the laws that impact getting public and private services and helps parents and teachers understand the subtleties of the laws that impact their children/students.
• Shows occupational therapy in action so parents and their children can "see" what they will be doing.
• Helps parents and professionals interpret behaviors of children with learning disabilities and gives them unique insight into what the child may be feeling.
• Through graphs and text, parents and professionals can "see" the process of learning, helping them to understand the neurology behind a learning disability.
• Provides a graph of how occupational therapy helps learning and interfaces with the academic setting.
• An extensive resource list gives parents and professionals quick access to reputable resources.

• The text has been reformatted to make the information more reader friendly.
• The glossary has been redesigned and expanded so each term is accompanied by an example.
• A homework survival kit has been included for parents to use with their children at home.
• Updated with current information on the IDEA, which was recertified in 2003.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Learning is frought with psychological and motor issues. Orloff helps children feel good about their unique style of doing things. -- Pulse Magazine, Atlant Journal Constitution, Feb. 2001

Orloff's book is informative, practical; providing encouragement to parents and children. Defines professional terms , physiological functions affecting learning. -- April Edwards, parent of a child who has been served by occupational therapy

Orloff's experience with children is extensive. Poor school performance is complicated. Orloff explains this and more. -- Atlanta Journal Consitituion September 2001 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Susan Orloff, OTR/L, Executive Director, Children's Special Services; LD OT Services for Chldren

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 2 edition (April 14, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0323027725
• ISBN-13: 978-0323027724
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,223,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding both sides of the educational table, September 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Learning Re-enabled (Paperback)

This book gets it right: teachers are not magic fairies, they cannot make something happen just because the parent wants it, and parents cannot just want "it" to be better; and no one person, teacher, parent, therapist can affect change alone. All must work together! Parent/teacher exchanges would be more productive if empathically each could view the situation from the others perspective. This book accomplishes this and more. Schools cannot do the job of family and home; but they can do "the job" if they know how to communicate. Publlic school teachers and administrators are running at "capacity". They are caring people, over-stretched. This book helps them work smarter not harder. This book helps parents focus on the important issues, while it gives form and language to hard to express feelings and situations. Private school teachers and administators can also benefit from this book. Understanding that enrollment in an "A" ranked school does not preclude learning issues is important. How to confront the issues empathically and intelligently is the mission of this book and it accomplishes that and more. It is not a "cookbook". It is a small well-stocked store offering many conbinations of options from which one may choose.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful to any parent whose child may need OT, March 13, 2002

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Laura Goldsmith (Atlanta, Ga) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Learning Re-enabled (Paperback)

I bought the book and have just finished reading it. I found it easy to read and filled with compassion. The author anticipated my questions --- and asked questions I had not thought of. It's full of useful information. I liked the book's format and the artwork is delightful.

I suspect this is the kind of book one can go back to and re-read and learn something new.

I would recommend this book to any parent whose child may need OT. Of special interest to me was the fact that this author is speaking from personal and professional experience.

Laura Goldsmith, parent
March 13, 2002

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The mystery of learning disabilities revealed!!, August 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Learning Re-enabled (Paperback)

As a former resouce teacher, I wish this book had been around when I had to give adivice to parents. It would have taken a lot of the mystery and the un-needed pain out of the words, "learning disabled". This type of book is long over-due! It doesn't tell you how to do "it" right, it guides you so that you can make informed decisions comfortably. It's like having a "best friend" to talk with on a subject that is probably more painful for the parent than the child.