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It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
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Description for It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
Paperback. This groundbreaking book provides parents of learning disabled children with much needed helpful ideas to promote more successful social interactions for their children. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: VFJD; VFXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 502.
One in six children encounter significant problems while learning to read; some one million children are being treated for learning disabilities. There are many books that deal with their academic difficulties, but when it comes to the social isolation and peer rejection that these differently wired children so often experience, their parents and teachers are mostly left to cope on their own. Now, renowned educator Richard Lavoie offers practical, proven strategies to help these children learn to maintain friendships, resolve conflicts, and interpret non-verbal social cues. Written with warmth, empathy, and the authority that can only come from decades of ... Read more
One in six children encounter significant problems while learning to read; some one million children are being treated for learning disabilities. There are many books that deal with their academic difficulties, but when it comes to the social isolation and peer rejection that these differently wired children so often experience, their parents and teachers are mostly left to cope on their own. Now, renowned educator Richard Lavoie offers practical, proven strategies to help these children learn to maintain friendships, resolve conflicts, and interpret non-verbal social cues. Written with warmth, empathy, and the authority that can only come from decades of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Touchstone
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780743254656
SKU
V9780743254656
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Lavoie
Richard Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed., has worked as a teacher and headmaster at residential special education facilities for the past thirty years. He holds three degrees in special education and serves as a consultant to several agencies and organizations. The father of three adult children, he lives with his wife in Barnstable, Massachusetts. He welcomes visitors to his website at www.ricklavoie.com ... Read more
Reviews for It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success
"The best guide of its kind ever written. . . a major achievement."
Edward Hallowell, M.D.,Coauthor of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction
Edward Hallowell, M.D.,Coauthor of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction