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This book provides an in-depth look at what a little-known clinician, the educational therapist, does and how they do it. It goes behind the clinician’s door to illustrate the unusual and broad range of interventions – both academic/vocational and social/emotional – that an educational therapist employs. This particular case study involves a young woman named Nora who had a severe but undiagnosed auditory processing disorder. She could not give meaning to the spoken language that came at her too rapidly, leaving her in a constant fog of words that she couldn’t comprehend. This case discloses the problems, their causes, and the emotional toll that had to be considered when developing ...
This book provides an in-depth look at what a little-known clinician, the educational therapist, does and how they do it. It goes behind the clinician’s door to illustrate the unusual and broad range of interventions – both academic/vocational and social/emotional – that an educational therapist employs. This particular case study involves a young woman named Nora who had a severe but undiagnosed auditory processing disorder. She could not give meaning to the spoken language that came at her too rapidly, leaving her in a constant fog of words that she couldn’t comprehend. This case discloses the problems, their causes, and the emotional toll that had to be considered when developing ...
Examining the field of learning disabilities and the education of learning disabled (LD) children through the eyes of several experts, this volume discusses such areas as new medications for the LD child, contemporary research on dyslexia and educational strategies for improving reading.
The author utilizes his years of experience as an educator within a juvenile detention facility to filter the lives of hundreds of young inmates through established criminological paradigms, identifying socio-economic class and school failure as key contributors to delinquent behavior.
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"The description is crisp, angry & effective; & it is all so damn infuriating & familiar."--Jonathan Kozol. Learning disabled youth have a 220% greater chance than their non-learning disabled peers of officially entering the juvenile justice system...30 to 50% or more of these adjudicated juvenile delinquents are learning disabled.--National Center State Courts. This is a revised update of a classic book favored for its docudrama style that is as compelling as it is informative about the many controversial issues related to learning disabilities. READING, WRITING & RAGE introduces you to Toni Petri, a young learning disabled adult on the verge of exploding, & takes you back to his experience...
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