Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention
10 best books like Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention (Peg Dawson): A Mind at a Time, Late, Lost & Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning, Stick Up for Yourself!: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem, Family Math, The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys: A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons, Learning Outside The Lines : Two Ivy League Students With Learning Disabilities And ADHD Give You The Tools For Academic Success and Educational Revolution, Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child, Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy: The Special Education Survival Guide, The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students, You're Going to Love This Kid!: Teaching Children with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom
| Author | Mel Levine |
| ISBN | 0743202236 |
"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all...
| Author | Joyce Cooper-Kahn |
| ISBN | 1890627844 |
(2009 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA): Honors Award)
Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful. Children with weak executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework but forget to turn it in, wait...
| Author | Gershen Kaufman |
| ISBN | 1575420686 |
First published in 1990, this perennial best-seller has helped countless children build self-esteem and assertiveness skills.
Newly revised and updated, it’s the ultimate resource for any kid who’s ever been picked on at school, bossed around, blamed for things he or she didn’t...
| Author | Jean Kerr Stenmark |
| ISBN | 0912511060 |
How can parents help their children with math at home? With over 300 pages of lively activities, the classic FAMILY MATH book represents one of the greatest strides taken to involve parents in the mathematics education of their children. Using easy instructions and simple objects such as beans, blocks,...
| Author | Lynda Madaras |
| ISBN | 0937858404 |
The best book on puberty for 9-15 year old boys completely updated for the first time in 12 years! Selected as a "Best Book for Young Adults" by the American Library AssociationThe classic puberty education book for 9-15 year-old boys (over 500,000 copies sold), now thoroughly updated and freshly...
Written by two Ivy League graduates who struggled with learning disabilities and ADHD, Learning Outside the Lines teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success with brilliant and easy study suggestions and tips.
Every day, your school, your teachers, and...
| Author | Edward M. Hallowell |
| ISBN | 0345497767 |
With decades of experience working with ADD children, Dr. Edward Hallowell-a pediatric psychiatric clinician, father of two ADD children, and himself an adult with ADD-understands how easily the gifts of this condition are lost on a child amid negative comments from doctors, teachers, and even...
| Author | Peter W.D. Wright |
| ISBN | 1892320096 |
Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, second edition will teach you how to plan, prepare, organize and get quality special education services. In this comprehensive, easy-to-read book, you will learn your child's disability and educational needs, how to create a simple method for organizing...
| Author | Jessica Minahan |
| ISBN | 9781612501 |
Based on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors—a behavioral analyst and a child psychiatrist—reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn....
| Author | Paula Kluth |
| ISBN | 1557666148 |
This work is a guidebook for including students with autism in both primary and secondary school classrooms. Including first-person accounts that give readers insight into the experience of having autism, it shows educators how to adapt their classrooms to support student participation in classwork,...
The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond
| Author | Donna Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0743270207 |
A must-read for parents, The Organized Student contains hands-on strategies for teaching your disorganized child how to organize for success in middle school and high school, with special tips for kids with ADD/ADHD and learning disorders.
The overstuffed backpack, the missing homework,...
| Author | Judith Wynn Halsted |
| ISBN | 0910707510 |
Challenge your gifted reader! Gifted children grow socially, emotionally, and intellectually from reading good books. This resource can help make that happen, by offering parents and teachers an annotated K-12 reading list with summaries of nearly 300 titles for bright students. Recommended...
| Author | Larry K. Brendtro |
| ISBN | 1879639866 |
Finding Hope for and in Children and Youth
In the early years of the 20th century, Swedish sociologist Ellen Key proclaimed the world was about to embark on the “Century of the Child.” As time wore on, however, many scholars saw that the 1900s was anything but the century of the child. Although...
Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell
| Author | Erin Gruwell |
| ISBN | 0767931726 |
“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be more soul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals most of us will ever meet. The effects of their work will...
| Author | Ellen B. Braaten |
| ISBN | 1609184726 |
Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby have worked with thousands...
| Author | Douglas C. Merrill |
| ISBN | 0385528175 |
Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't our fault. Our brains simply aren't designed...
Thinking About You Thinking About Me: Philosophy and strategies to further develop perspective taking and communicative abilities for persons with Asperger ... Autism, Hyperlexia, ADHD, PDD-NOS, NVLD
| Author | Michelle Garcia Winner |
| ISBN | 0970132018 |
This book was written for clinicians who teach social thinking (or pragmatic speech) to children and adults. As a layman though, I got a lot out of it. The big picture is that in order to communicate effectively, the speaker needs to be able to take in the other person's perspective. This is something that...
That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life
| Author | Ana Homayoun |
| ISBN | 0399535594 |
At last, the solution for getting disorganized boys back on track.
Missed assignments. Lack of focus and enthusiasm. Falling grades. For too many boys and their frustrated parents, these are the facts of life. But they don't have to be.
Top academic couselor Ana Homayoun has helped...
| Author | Sally Ozonoff |
| ISBN | 1462517951 |
Over 100,000 parents have found the facts they need about high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including Asperger syndrome, in this indispensable guide. Leading experts show how you can work with your child's unique impairments--and harness his or her capabilities. Vivid stories...
| Author | Martin L. Kutscher |
| ISBN | 1843108119 |
Kids in the Syndrome Mix is a concise, scientifically up-to-date, all-in-one guide to the whole range of often co-existing neuro-behavioral disorders in children-from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder, to autistic spectrum...
| Author | American Psychiatric Association |
| ISBN | 0890420629 |
It's some weird, disturbing, awesome hybrid of a useless necessary evil and an insightful meditation on various disorders and differential diagnosis.
It's generally not very useful for kids, even the section on Disorders Usually Diagnosed In Infancy Or Childhood. The DSM is all about differentiation,...
| Author | Carol Gray |
| ISBN | 1935274058 |
Since the early 90s, Carol Gray’s world-famous Social Stories™ have helped thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders. This 10th Anniversary edition of her best-selling book offers the ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years, but now features...
| Author | Jeffrey Freed |
| ISBN | 0684847930 |
Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons provide an effective method for helping children with Attention Deficit Disorder excel in a classroom setting.
In straightforward language, this book explains how to use the innovative "Learning Styles Inventory" to test for a right-brained learning...
| Author | Fern Sussman |
| ISBN | 0921145144 |
More Than Words presents a step-by-step guide for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder in an extensive, practical, and user-friendly format. Strategies are drawn from current research to help children develop more advanced communication skills, focusing on helping the child reach...
