Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential by Weinfeld, Rich

Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781618210760)

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Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential by Weinfeld, Rich

Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential

$19.95
Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential by Weinfeld, Rich

Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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The second edition of Smart Kids With Learning Difficulties is an updated and comprehensive must-read for parents, teachers, counselors, and other support professionals of bright kids who face learning challenges every day. This practical book discusses who these students are; how to identify them; what needs to be implemented; best practices, programs, and services; and specific actions to ensure student success. Along with tools and tips, each chapter includes Key Points, a new feature that will help focus and facilitate next steps and desired outcomes and follow-up for parents and teachers. The new edition includes a look at current definitions of twice-exceptional students, updated research findings and identification methods, a detailed description of the laws and policies impacting this population, what works and what doesn't work, model schools, Response to Intervention, Understanding by Design, comprehensive assessments, social-emotional principles, and new assistive technology.

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Author: Rich Weinfeld, Linda Barnes-Robinson, Sue Jeweler
ISBN-10: 1618210769
ISBN-13: 9781618210760
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2013
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.11w x 0.73d
By Rich Weinfeld
By Rich Weinfeld
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Rich Weinfeld is a national leader in the education of gifted children with learning difficulties. Weinfeld was instrumental in coordinating the Montgomery County, MD, gifted and learning-disabled program and is currently an educational advocate in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.

Linda Barnes-Robinson has worked with children and parents for more than 25 years, and has devoted her professional life to advocating for children and families. With Montgomery County Public Schools, she coordinated the identification of gifted and talented students, advocated for parents and students, and worked to establish one of the first comprehensive programs for gifted/learning-disabled students in the nation.

Linda is a nationally recognized trainer and educational consultant in gifted identification, gifted/learning-disabled programs, and conflict resolution and mediation. She has coauthored and edited numerous articles, manuals, books, and curricula documents. Her most recent publications include two articles for the journal Teaching Exceptional Children.

She received her bachelor's degree from Cedar Crest College, her master's degree from The George Washington University, and a postgraduate certificate in family mediation from The Catholic University of America.

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