Learning Re-enabled [Paperback]

Susan Orloff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2001

A guidebook/workbook for parents, teachers and therapists to understand and communicate in Plain English, about learning disabilities. How to hear it (parent), how to say it (teacher) and how to describe it (therapist). How to make decisions and advocate for your child without the expense of hiring someone to do it for you; what the laws mean and how to use them in a producutive parternship with related professionals.

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

About the Author

Former resource teacher and pediatric occupational therapist with experience with children for more than 30 years. Also the parent of 3 "learning challenged" children who have all gone to college and become independent. One of the 1st Federally funded resource teachers, received training in sensory integration from Dr. Jean Ayres, trained and mentored other occupational therapists to work in schools, therapist of the year from Advanced Rehabilitation Services, Who' who of American women 1979, Outstanding Personality of America for services to the handicapped- 1980,and Outstanding Occupational Therapy Educator from the state of South Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 147 pages
• Publisher: Childrens Special Services Llc (December 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971600503
• ISBN-13: 978-0971600508
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,860,975 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.