The target audience for this book about learning disabilities is students. It also makes a wonderful basic primer for parents and teachers without condescending to its audience. It describes, in easy to understand language, processing, social skills, and the academic skill areas of reading, spelling, writing, and math in relation to learning disabilities. This is a very practical book, geared for use by the teacher in the classroom. In addition, topics such as relaxation techniques, learning styles, medications are also covered.
Chapters are short and to the point.
This is an excellent book, providing much theoretical information on adolescent development and language development in general, and language disorders in particular. This is a very good resource for teachers in intermediate and high school grades. This book is systematically laid out, with a good balance between background material and concrete suggestions. Areas of parental and teacher concern are followed by possible management programs. The focus of the book is on behavioral determinants and techniques.