{"product_id":"brilliance-unleashed-marion-blank-9798996178902","title":"Brilliance Unleashed: Extraordinary Success in Kids with Severe Learning Disabilities","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwelve children. Twelve prognoses that turned out to be wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, children with severe learning disabilities have been defined by what they cannot do. They are labeled, underestimated, and quietly written off by systems that mistake a diagnosis for a ceiling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Brilliance Unleashed, developmental psychologist Dr. Marion Blank tells the true stories of twelve children she treated over more than fifty years of clinical work. They faced autism, dyslexia, deafness, blindness, cerebral palsy, and language impairments so severe that speech was considered out of reach. Every one of them was expected to live a life bounded by their diagnosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a method book with case studies bolted on. Each chapter is one child, one situation everyone agreed was hopeless, and an honest account of what was tried and why, including the months where nothing moved and the approaches that nearly failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Blank's work centers on something most reading programs skip: the hundred or so small non-content words that carry roughly sixty percent of everything we read, write and say. Mastery of those words, not phonics drill, is where she found the leverage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor parents who have been told to lower their expectations, and for the teachers, clinicians and therapists who suspect the child in front of them is capable of more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marion Blank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996178902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dr Marion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Marion Blank","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780345106687,"sku":"9798996178902","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brilliance-unleashed-marion-blank-9798996178902","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}