Yes! Your Child Can: Creating Success for Children With Learning Differences - Couverture souple

Waller Ed.D., Victoria

 
9781610353861: Yes! Your Child Can: Creating Success for Children With Learning Differences

Synopsis

Every child can succeed in school and life, but some children need more help than others. For over 40 years, internationally acclaimed reading specialist and student advocate Dr. Victoria E. Waller has helped children who have trouble reading, who cant sit still in class, who dont feel like they can participatechildren whom teachers have all but given up on. In Yes! Your Child Can: Creating Success for Children with Learning Differences, Dr. Waller shares with parents, teachers, and therapists her proven techniques for motivating any child to love learning, overcome their particular challenges, and succeed in school. Her methods are designed and proven to draw out the singular genius within your child, whether theyre just a reluctant reader or have a diagnosis such as ADHD or other learning differences. In compassionate, nontechnical, easy-to-understand language, Yes! Your Child Can gives step-by-step instructions on how to help your child achieve in school and build lifelong intellectual confidence. Drawing on the latest science and her own wide-ranging experience, Dr. Waller explains why its important to pay attention to your first gut feeling that your child may need extra help and shows how to navigate testing, medication, and choosing a team of caring professionals to help your child. Respectful, compassionate, and solutions-oriented, Yes! Your Child Can is the first book every parent of a child with learning differences should read.

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À propos de l'auteur

Victoria E. Waller, Ed.D. holds a B.S in Education from Wayne State University, an M.Ed., as a certified reading specialist, and an Ed.D.
focusing on reading and learning differences from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Waller has been awarded the University of
Cincinnati's Distinguished Alumna College of Education Award, was one of three finalists for the L.A. Music Center's Bravo Award for
Outstanding Teaching, and was named the Local Hero in the L.A. Times for her Printer Pal Program, connecting students with nursing home
occupants. She was the creator of the Disney Busy Bags for Travel on Planes and Cars for Disney/Hyperion Books and has created backpacks
and toys for M&M Mars, Inc. She was a founding member of the L.A. Children's Museum, was a veteran speaker for the International Reading Association for 25 years and is the focus of Eve Bunting's internationally-acclaimed-and Caldecott Medal award-winning middle grade novel, Sixth Grade Sleepover. Waller's articles on creative reading and writing projects for children have been widely viewed on U.C.L.A.'s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior website, and the award-winning Grandparentslink.com. Dr. Waller and her husband, Marshall, live in Los Angeles, California.

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