Turnabout Children: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities (Signet) Charlie, an eight-year old, struggles to understand his place in the world, leaving him confused and alone. Her heart-warming bo.Alice appears the model fifth year child, but secretly scores zero on every maths test.These are so
| TITLE | : | Turnabout Children: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities (Signet) |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.81 (182 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0451158768 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 256 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 1987-07-07 |
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From bestselling author and teacher Mary Maccracken comes the engaging and inspiring story of five troubled children who she fought to bring back from the brinkJoey is the class clown, but alone proves to be an intensely dark seven-year old who still can’t read.
Eric is a kindergartener, left withdrawn and speechless by the horrors he’s witnessed at home.
Alice appears the model fifth year child, but secretly scores zero on every maths test.
Charlie, an eight-year old, struggles to understand his place in the world, leaving him confused and alone.
Ben comes from a comfortable life at home, but has been called stupid so many times he now believes it.These are some of the learning-disabled children who were in deep trouble until Mary MacCracken, an extraordinary therapist and teacher, works her magic with them and transforms their lives. Her heart-warming bo
EDITORIAL :
From Publishers Weekly MacCracken (City Kid; Lovey, a Very Special Child, a learning-disabilities therapist in New Jersey, personalizes the torments endured by many schoolchildren and their parents. According to statistics, one of every five students today has difficulty in some area of learning. The boys and girls who come to MacCracken for evaluation and tutoring are physically indistinguishable from their peers; many are intellectually superior yet unable to meet school and social norms in skills of reading, writing and calculating. Through the portraits of children she has treated, MacCracken shows what makes them bloom; in one case, even a dyslexic parent is helped. Explaining her profession in lay terms, the author indicates that her mission is not only remediation but guiding children to "become successful in their place of workschooland to improve the quality of their lives." Tea
REVIEW :
Trapped thoughts that can't be told, but are then understood without saying, as the same reflection - like quantum tunneling - might wind from one point of view to the mind of a different character.
In part II the sound of bombs falling in the distance is described as "the measured blows of hammers on felt." There are lines like that, which come in so lightly, but their impact on landing is powerful: the novel itself explodes in your heart like a silent H-bomb. I think the guide was good, but needed more detail along with demonstration. There’s something I find a bit magical about this book; I read a bit, then put it down for a while to absorb it. He hits every important topic- from the impotanace of consistency, to the negative effects of parental emotional outbursts, to why proper spanking is not a regression to barbarism as modern experts claim. I'll look forward to r
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