It's so much work to be your friend
Subtitle: helping the child with learning disabilities find social success
By: Richard Lavoie.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Social skills in children; Learning disabled children; Social acceptance in children; Interpersonal relations in children
Description: Every learning disability has a social component. Affected children are socially out of step with their classmates and peers, and often they are ridiculed or ostracized for their differences. A successful social life is immeasurably important to a child's happiness, health, and development, but until now, no book has provided expert advice on helping learning disabled children achieve social success. This book offers practical strategies to help learning disabled children ages six through seventeen navigate the treacherous social waters of their school, home, and community. Rick examines the special social issues surrounding a wide variety of learning disabilities, including ADD and other attentional disorders, anxiety, paralinguistics, visual-spatial disorders, and executive functioning. Then he provides proven methods and step-by-step instructions for helping the learning disabled child through almost any social situation. --From publisher description.
Notes: "A Touchstone book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.