Sharing the experience of bringing up a child with non verbal learning disability (NLD), this warm and accessible book offers advice on subjects ranging across diagnosis and therapy, children's interaction with each other, suitable activities for a child with and how to discuss NLD with children. An essential guide, this book will reassure, advise and inform parents and professionals who work with children with NLD.
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Nancy Russell Burger is a freelance writer whose nine-year-old son, Jimmy, was diagnosed with NLD at the age of four. She lives in Redding, Connecticut with her husband David, Jimmy and seven-year-old daughter Shawn.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Highly Informative, Insightful and Humorous,
By future MFT (Fairfield, CT) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Special Kind of Brain: Living with Nonverbal Learning Disability (Paperback)
A Special Kind of Brain is particularly helpful to parents of young children who have been diagnosed with NLD as well as those who are in the assessment phase of treatment. It is a must read for any parent seeking clear, concise descriptions of NLD behaviors as well as a thorough guide to literature and resources on the topic. The author's humorous insights and recommendations are what set this book apart from what little literature exists to date. The use of humor is precisely what parents of NLD children need; not only to be effective parents but to preserve their own sanity and A Special Kind of Brain does just that.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Not helpful for our particular needs,
This review is from: A Special Kind of Brain: Living with Nonverbal Learning Disability (Paperback)
This book could be helpful to others experiencing puzzling behaviors in small children. It wasn't particularly helpful in our situation - dealing with a teenager. I still do not understand the difference between non verbal learning disability and asperger syndrome which is why I bought the book. The symptoms are so similar that separating them into two syndromes seems to add to the puzzle rather than be helpful.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Extremely Beneficial, Perceptive, True-life,
By Bean (Connecticut) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Special Kind of Brain: Living with Nonverbal Learning Disability (Paperback)
A Special Kind of Brain is extraordinarily beneficial to such caregivers of young children diagnosed with NLD. The author offers detailed descriptions and true insight by exposing her personal experience on maintaining responsibility over a child diagnosed with NLD. Within this book I found the author placed an extensive amount of research on such a diagnosis throughout this difficult journey. Her hands-on awareness introduces a variety of informative aspects to those seeking facts as well as answering a long list of questions that parents inevitably have upon discovering such a diagnosis. All of which has made this book highly successful on offering guidance and courses of action to take for parents of young children diagnosed with NLD. Parents may commonly feel a sense of helplessness during this particular challenging experience. I'm confident that after reading A Special Kind of Brain such parents can press on with a great deal of peace of mind.
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As a child, the most difficult thought I could fathom was the idea of something being wrong with either of my parents. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
managing inflow, nonverbal learning disorder, fountain soda, nonverbal learning disability, educational team, nonverbal learning disabilities, lawn tractors, shape sorter, special education law Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fred Rogers, James Taylor, New York, Byron Rourke, Diet Pepsi, Joan Cone, Magic Eight, Asperger's Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder, Keep It Simple, Redding Elementary School New!
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As a child, the most difficult thought I could fathom was the idea of something being wrong with either of my parents. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
managing inflow, nonverbal learning disorder, fountain soda, nonverbal learning disability, educational team, nonverbal learning disabilities, lawn tractors, shape sorter, special education law Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fred Rogers, James Taylor, New York, Byron Rourke, Diet Pepsi, Joan Cone, Magic Eight, Asperger's Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder, Keep It Simple, Redding Elementary School New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success by Marshall P. Duke on page 27, page 85, and Back Matter
- Bridging the Gap: Raising A Child With Nonverbal Learning Disorder by Rondalyn Varney Whitney on page 27, and Back Matter
- The source for nonverbal learning disorders by Sue Thompson on page 167, and Back Matter
- You, Your Child, and Special Education: A Guide to Making the System Work by Barbara C. Cutler in Back Matter
- The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck in Back Matter
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