Different Learners: Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your

Child's Learning Problems by Jane M. Healy, From educational psychologist Healey (Your Child's Growing Mind)

comes a parents' guide to learning disorders and the positive steps to avoid or reverse problems

accompanying a child's diagnosis. Defining a learning problem as “any innate or acquired characteristic that

consistently interferes with one or more aspects of learning,” Healey explains that the way a brain is “wired”

accounts for disorders in language arts and math, social and personal organizational skills, and motor

and sensory abilities. Whether a development problem becomes a disability (and if medication is appropriate)

depends on its severity and expectations made of a child at a given age. Healey provides a very hands-on guide

with anecdotal case studies, the latest brain science research data made comprehensible, and plenty of bulleted

checklists covering symptoms, action steps, and advice.