Nonverbal learning disabilities

Nonverbal learning disabilities is a 202-page book that offers up-to-date information on nonverbal learning disabilities. Helpful for graduate students, researchers, and other professionals, this book offers strategies for helping school-age children and their families address the challenges they face both inside and out of the classroom environment. Case studies are included.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Panther Dice

Panther Dice is a fun app that helps people with many types of disabilities join in the fun of a dice game.

- For individuals with autism, lock the screen after rolls to avoid stimming.
- For individuals with motoric challenges, add a moving target to refine motor skills.
- For struggling learners - display the total of the dice.
- For individuals with visual challenges, have numbers read aloud,

For more information about this app, please visit:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id542566013

Using technology to engage students with learning disabilities

Using technology to engage students with learning disabilities is a short 47-page nod to using today’s technology with students who might benefit from it greatly—those with learning disabilities. The book covers why technology, particularly mobile apps with today’s increasing use of iPads in the classroom, can be great tools for students with learning disabilities and suggests some specific apps found to be most useful. It highlights ways text to speech works for reading disabilities and offers websites and mobile apps suggestions for mathematics disabilities.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Writing Wizard

"Writing Wizard is designed to help every child learn how to trace letters, numbers and words through a fun system carefully designed to maintain motivation." Parents and teachers can create unique word lists, download progress reports, change fonts, and more.

Find out more about this app by visiting:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id631446426

Mobile App Monday - Match & Find

Got a young child with learning disabilities?

"Match & Find is designed to help develop young children’s memory, matching, searching and sequencing skills. Working memory is very important for the development of language and numeracy, and the carefully designed activities in this app can help children train and improve their auditory and visual working memory." -iTunes

To learn more about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id833434155

Mobile App Monday - TouchMe HokusPokus

Teaching your child to use a touch screen or a switch? This app can help. The game itself is very easy and motivating. Pressing an external switch (not included) or the screen will create a picture step by step. Once one part of the picture is displayed, the children get curious. What is it? Which detail has been added now? As soon as the picture is complete, a short animation will be played.

To learn more about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchme-hokuspokus/id671739045?mt=8

Thinking differently: An inspiring guide for parents of children with learning disabilities

Thinking differently: An inspiring guide for parents of children with learning disabilities is an innovative, comprehensive guide to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

How I learn: A kid's guide to learning disability

How I Learn: A Kid's Guide to Learning Disability provides a simple explanation of why some children struggle in school. It introduces learning disability in concrete terms for younger students, emphasizing that they are capable of learning but do so in a different way from most children.

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Practical parenting and learning disabilities: A simple guide for teachers and parents

Practical parenting and learning disabilities: A simple guide for teachers and parents is a two part guide written in order to help parents simplify their lives as well as their children's lives. The first part is a straightforward guide to discipline that will help make everyone's lives more secure and content. It helps parents establish limits and guidelines for what their children are or are not allowed to do. The second part is a guide to help parents secure and receive the proper education for their children. It helps to identify learning styles and learning disabilities.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Teaching word recognition: Effective strategies for students with learning difficulties

Teaching word recognition: Effective strategies for students with learning difficulties synthesizes the research base on word recognition and translates it into step-by-step instructional strategies, with special attention to students who are struggling. Chapters follow the stages through which students progress as they work toward skilled reading of words. Presented are practical, evidence-based techniques and activities that target letter- sound pairings, decoding and blending, sight words, multisyllabic words, and fluency. -book description

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Identification and evaluation of learning disabilities: The school team's guide to student success

One size does not fit all for helping students with learning disabilities—and it doesn't work for identifying learning disabilities either. Identification and evaluation of learning disabilities: The school team's guide to student success is a practical, easy-to-use handbook that offers a comprehensive plan, guiding general educators, special educators, administrators, and school psychologists through the eligibility and evaluation stages that ensure students get the best services and support they need to be successful. -from the book description

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A Practical Guide to Congenital Developmental Disorders and Learning Difficulties

Designed to support professionals working within a multi-modal, A Practical Guide to Congenital Developmental Disorders and Learning Difficulties takes a collaborative approach to assessment and intervention processes. The book is suitable for health visitors, allied health therapists, nurses, teachers and social care practitioners. It is also a useful reference for students in these areas learning about child development and includes critical reading exercises; online searching tasks; self-assessment questions; reflective activities and document analysis prompts. -from the book description

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Nolo's IEP guide: Learning disabilities

This edition of Nolo's IEP Guide has been updated to reflect the latest laws, federal regulations, and court decisions that affect the IEP process, and includes fully up-to-date forms, sample letters, and resources to help you every step of the way. Plus, read an expanded section about "appropriate" education measures resulting from a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, and get new details on eligibility for special education services for your child. -from the book description

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Kids in the syndrome mix of ADHD, LD, autism spectrum, Tourette's, anxiety and more!

Kids in the syndrome mix of ADHD, LD, autism spectrum, Tourette's, anxiety and more!: The one-stop guide for parents, teachers and other professionals is a completely updated and expanded new edition of a well-established text incorporating DSM-5 changes as well as other new developments. The all-in-one guide covers the whole range of often co-existing neuro-behavioral disorders in children - from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety, to autism spectrum disorders, nonverbal learning disabilities, Tourette's, sensory integration problems, and executive dysfunction.

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Curricula for teaching children and young people with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties

Book description:
Curricula for Teaching Children and Young People with Severe or Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties offers a range of compelling arguments for a distinct and separate pedagogical approach to the learning needs of the most educationally challenging pupils. This book, written in accessible, common sense and non-academic language, provides an easy-to-follow alternative curriculum specifically designed to enhance and enrich the learning of children with profound and multiple learning difficulties.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Todo Telling Time

Got a child who is struggling to learn how to tell time? Todo (meaning "all" in Spanish) Telling Time provides children in kindergarten through second grade games with which to learn time telling, from the hour and minute, to calendar concepts, to digital time, to the components of a daily schedule. Multiple game levels provide challenges so that students can master the concept of telling time.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/todo-telling-time/id666462848?mt=8

Mobile App Monday - Voice Dream Reader

"Having reached top 10 in Education in 79 countries, Voice Dream Reader is the world's most accessible reading tool. With advanced text-to-speech and a highly configurable screen layout, it can be tailored to suit every reading style from completely auditory to completely visual, plus synchronized combination of both." -iTunes

Want to learn more about it? Please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader/id496177674?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Mobile App Mondy - Dyslexia Quest

Climb the mountain and play the yeti games. Each game will test memory and learning skills. The Yeti Master will explain signs of dyslexia.

• 6 games that each develop a different learning ability
• Email your results to those that need to know
• Suggests how to make better use of your learning strengths
• Explains what difficulties you will experience and where you have a weakness
• 3 different paths up the mountain encourage you to replay games and improve your skills
• Can you collect all 18 yetis?

To learn more about this app, please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dyslexia-quest/id448166369?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Learning disability: Theory to practice

Learning disability: Theory to practice offers two major objectives: it provides up-to-date information on theories and current practices in teaching those with learning disabilities, and it demonstrates the effectiveness of two major techniques of intervention--cognitive behavior therapy and computer-assisted instruction--through a series of case studies.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title, or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Understanding and teaching the at-risk adult student

Understanding and Teaching the At-Risk Adult Student can help teachers working with adult education of students who are at-risk due to their criminal backgrounds, substance abuse issues or undiagnosed learning disabilities. This book provides readers with an overview of the challenges of working with this population of students, presents research on their unique challenges as learners, and provides teachers with evidence-based practices to enhance the success of this adult learner population.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.