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Here you will find literature and books that will be helpful to teachers, parents, and children as they learn more about mental and learning disabilities.

__** For Teachers: **__

By: Corinne Smith, Lisa Strick** This book is about helping youngsters with learning disabilities hold onto their dreams. It is also about helping their mothers and fathers negotiate the maze of challenges that so often leaves parents and students alike feeling overwhelmed and helpless. Writing with warmth and compassion Corinne Smith and Lisa Strick explain the causes, identification, and treatment of learning disabilities and present a wealth of practical strategies for helping youngsters become successful both in and out of the classroom.
 * 1. //Learning Disabilities A to Z//

What is it like to live with disabilities no one can see? Readers will find out in this honest and gripping narrative of one woman's life with hidden disabilities — including learning disabilities, ADHD, and bipolar disorder. Yet this is more than just her story of battling adversity and coming out a winner. In each chapter, renowned psychiatrist Larry Silver, M.D., shares his insight into how Veronica's experiences — both positive and negative — influenced her academically and emotionally and how early diagnosis and intervention might have benefited her. These two compelling accounts give readers an appreciation for the difficulties and triumphs living with hidden disabilites can bring and an awareness of what can be done to help.
 * 2. //Embracing the Monster: Overcoming the Challenges of Hidden Disabilities//****By: Veronica Crawford, Larry B. Silver, M.D.**


 * __ For Parents: __**

This book is an engaging, reader-friendly work which guides parents through the formative years of a child's life. This well-regarded book is newly revised to reflect the most recent studies. The new edition features information from the latest research, including traumatic events in the news, television and learning skills, physical activity, and temperament. With a specific focus on the brain, the book takes the reader through specific phases of child development beginning with Life in the Womb an going through the first six years of life. Each chapter ends with a section "To Think About," addressing such practical matters as good-night rituals, reading books together and coping with conflict.
 * 3. //A Good Start in Life: Understanding Your Child's Brain and Behavior from Birth to Age 6//**
 * By: Norbert Herschkowitz, Elinore Chapman Herschkowitz**

"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, many children struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the way they are being taught. In his #1 New York Times bestseller //A Mind at a Time//, Dr. Levine shows parents and those who care for children, how to identify these individual learning patterns, explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure.
 * 4. //A Mind At A Time//**
 * By: Mel Levine**

**__For Children:__**

Understand how you learn, how weaknesses can make learning difficult, and how your strengths can be used to improve your learning skills. The world is made up of "all kinds of minds" and each one needs to be appreciated. Also available on audio tape.
 * 5. //All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student's Book about Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders//**
 * By: Mel Levine**Age Level: 9-12Reading Level: Independent Reader

First of all, know this — you're smart and can learn! You just learn differently. This guide will help answer some of your important questions about having LD, such as "Why is it hard for kids with LD to learn?" and "What happens when you grow up?" It will also provide suggestions on how to deal with issues in school and take some of the mystery out of what having LD means (and doesn't mean). Includes resources for parents and teachers.
 * 6. //The Survival Guide for Kids with LD//**
 * By: Gary L. Fisher, Ph.D.**Age Level: 9-12Reading Level: Independent Reader

By: Midori Ochiai** Illustrated by: Hiroko FujiwaraAge Level: 6-9Reading Level: Beginning Reader Some of us learn things in a different way from those around us — do you too? One frog might need a bit of help with counting; another might not know how to behave around other frogs. Other young frogs in this book are easily distracted and get themselves into trouble. But help is at hand: if we think differently about things that we find difficult, we can find our own ways to get better at doing them.
 * 7. //Different Croaks for Different Folks//