Educational Care: A System for Understanding and Helping Children with Learning Differences at Home and in School, 2nd Edition is written for parents and teachers. This invaluable resource is based on the premise that education should be a system of care that provides for the needs of individual students. The book identifies and describes 26 common behaviors or phenomena that can appear in students at different ages and interfere with learning. Brief case studies illustrate each phenomenon. The phenomena are grouped according to the following 6 themes: weak attention controls, reduced remembering, chronic misunderstanding, deficient output, delayed skill acquisition, and poor adaptation in school.
Following the analysis of each phenomenon are lists of specific suggestions for parents and teachers about how to help students who are having difficulty with that particular area. These lists provide ideas about how to help a child demystify his or her learning challenge by naming, explaining, and discussing it. The book concludes with clear descriptions of different methods, levels and kinds of assessment along with an overview of ways to manage children's learning problems, including bypass strategies and medical treatments. The appendixes contain a variety of interview forms that can be used with children.
Newly revised in 2001, the 2nd Edition of Educational Care includes the following additions:
