A professor of pediatrics reveals the many modes of learning and arms parents and teachers with the knowledge they need to help children prosper in a school environment. 75,000 first printing.
Dr. Mel Levine's revolutionary theory says that very few people are truly lazy. Rather, nearly all "lazy" children and unproductive adults suffer from "output failure"--a problem of the mind. "The Myth of Laziness" identifies the indicators of this failure and offers practical day-to-day strategies to increase a child's productivity.
America's top learning expert explains the perils of becoming an adult today and shows parents and educators how adolescents can successfully make the transition.
Already a runaway bestseller, "A Mind at a Time" comes to audiobook. Drawing from actual case studies, Dr. Levine shows parents how to encourage a child's strengths and explains that each child learns in different ways. Abridged. 5 CDs.
Levine, a pediatrician, examines and dissects some of the causes behind the difficulties teens have producing in school. He concludes by offering some strategies parents and their children can adopt to address and overcome motivational challenges.
Oriented toward the provision of practical advice regarding the evaluation and management of disorders of behaviour and development as they confront clinicians in everyday practice. It includes mental retardation, temperamental characteristics of infancy in young children, behavioural and developmental implications of chronic illness, psychoactive ...
In August 1960, the publication of "Quarto de Despejo" ("Child of the Dark") created a sensation in Brazil - and in the rest of the world - as it appeared in translations in fourteen languages. That diary of a poor black woman from a favela on the outskirts of Sao Paulo became the best-selling book in Brazilian history. In it, Carolina Maria de ...
The new edition of this respected title remains the best single information source of its kind. Over 115 authorities, many new to this edition, provide the most comprehensive and in-depth coverage available on the evaluation and management of behavioural differences and difficulties in children and adolescents.
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Date Published: 1984
Description: Photo Figures. X-lib/bumps/rubs/pocket/stamps, else very good; no dustjacket. Clean, tight, crisp, uncirculated with cover rub spots. Very good reading, research copy. read more
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