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What About Me?: Strategies for Teaching Misunderstood Learners

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Christopher Lee dives into his personal story of growing up in the public education system as a student with dyslexia and how the teachers and schools failed him. Learning from his experiences, he has compiled a list of very basic and practical strategies to implement in the classroom to help other students with other forms of learning disabilities. A good piece of critical literacy and curriculum and instruction for ALL students.

I am reading and writing about his experience for the first time as a gen ed social studies teacher taking my first spe ed. grad class. It is a great book to dive into the complexities within the US public school system and those students who need Individualized Education Plans (IEP). I would recommend this book for all gen edu or beginning spe edu teachers, even TAs. Good starting point.

Many of my colleagues had read his first book, "Faking it," before reading this second installment. I had not, and I found it unnecessary to have read the first one, but I might go back and read it at a later date.

This is a great book to understand what someone with dyslexia is going through and how they may be helped. A good for all special educators to have a little empathy for those with LD.