learning disabilities

A guide to Sensory Integration Dysfunction that focuses on the importance of using fun and games to help children strengthen their sensory processing skills and features more tan one hundred activities to help develop and organize a child's brain and body.

Concrete terms and a story introduce the concept of a learning disability to younger students.

At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.

Suggests literacy activities for teachers to implement Response to Intervention--RTI--and use differentiated instruction in the classroom with activities designed for the whole group, guided practice, small groups, partners, and independent learning. Includes a CD-ROM with reproducibles in both English and Spanish.

"Hank's class is putting on a play, and Hank wants the lead part: Aqua Fly, but he freezes in his audition and can only buzz like a fly, so his teacher creates a special part for Hank.--Publisher.

Efforts to impress a visiting student from Japan cause Hank to hide his dyslexia while the gang makes enchiladas for a Multi-Cultural Day lunch, and Hank is afraid he was very wrong about the amount of chilli powder called for in a recipe.

Children's author Helen Lester describes her life from age three to adulthood and discusses how she writes.

Children's author Helen Lester describes her life from age three to adulthood and discusses how she writes.

Offers techniques and stories to help individuals with learning problems succeed in school as well as life.

A collection of essays for teachers that looks at response to intervention (RTI) in secondary schools.