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Recommended Reading

Books proceeded by an asterisk (*) are especially recommended by Donna Collins, Brehm's Director of Admissions.

Bain, Lisa, A Parent's Guide to Attention Deficit Disorder, Delacorte Press, 1993.

Bell, Nancy, Visualizing and Verbalizing, Academy of Reading Publication, 1991.

Betancourt, Jeanne, My Name is Brain Brian, Scholastic, Inc., 1993.

Bloom, Jill, Help Me to Help My Child, Little, Brown and Co., 1990.

Clark, Diana Brewster, Dyslexia: Theory & Practice of Remedial Instruction, York Press, 1988.

Clarke, Louise, Can't Read, Can't Write, Can't Talk too Good Either, Penguin Books, 1975.

Cordoni, Barbara, Living with a Learning Disability, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

Cummings, Rhoda and Fisher, Gary, The School Survival Guide for Kids with LD, Free Spirit Publishing, Inc., 1991.

DesJardins, C., How to Get Services by Being ASSERTIVE, Family Resource Center, 1993.

Duane, D. and Rawson, M.,
The Dyslexic Child, The Orton Dyslexia Society, 1979.

Evans, James S.,
An Uncommon Gift.

Fowler, Mary Cahill,
Maybe You Know My Kid, Birch Lane Press, 1990.

Galaburda, Albert,
From Reading to Neurons, MIT Press.

Gardner, Howard,
Frames of Mind, Basic Books, Inc., 1983.

Gehret, J., Eagles Eyes: A Child's Guide to Paying Attention, Educators Publishing Co.

Gerber, A.,
Language-related Learning Disabilities: Their Nature and Treatment, Baltimore: Brookes, 1993.

Hallowell, M.D., Edward and Ratey, M., Answers to Distraction, Pantheon Books, 1994.

Hallowell, M.D., Edward and Ratey, M., Driven to Distraction, Pantheon Books, 1994.

Hampshire, Susan, Susan's Story, St. Martin's Press, 1982.

Healy, Jane M., Endangered Minds, Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Healy, Jane M.,
Your Child's Growing Mind, Doubleday, 1989.

Hunsucker, Glenn,
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), Forrest Publishing, 1993.

Janover, Caroline,
Josh: A Boy with Dyslexia, Waterfront Books.

King, Diana Hanbury, Keyboarding Skills, Educators Publishing, 1993.

Lelewer, Nancy, Something's Not Right: One Family's Struggle with Learning Disabilities, VanderWyk & Burnham, 1994.

(*) Levine, Mel, Keeping A Head in School, Educators Publishing Service, 1990.

(*) Levine, Mel, All Kinds of Minds, Educators Publishing Service, 1993.

Margulies, M.A., Nancy, Mapping Inner Space (Mind Mappings), Zephyr Press 1991.

McCracken, Mary,
Turnabout Children, Signet, 1987.

Osman, Betty, No One to Play With, The Social Side of LD, Academic Therapy Publications, 1982.

Osman, Betty, Learning Disabilities, A Family Affair, Random House, 1979.

Pennington, Bruce F., Diagnosing Learning Disorders, The Guilford Press, 1991.

Rosenberg, Nancy,
How to Enjoy Math with your Child, Stein & Day NY.

Sawyer, D.J. and Fox, B.J., Phonological Awareness in Reading, Springer-Verlag, 1991.

Schmitt, Abraham, Brilliant Idiot: An Autobiography of a Dyslexic, Good Books, 1994.

(*)Silver, Larry, The Misunderstood Child, McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Simpson, Eileen,
Reversals, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991.

Smith, Sally L.,
No Easy Answers, Bantam Books, 1981.

Smith, Sally L.,
Succeeding Against The Odds, The Putnam Publishing Co., 1991.

Stevens, Suzanne,
The Learning-Disabled Child: Ways Parents Can Help, John F. Blair, 1980.

Stevens, Suzanne, How To Rescue At-Risk Students, LDTV, Inc., Winston-Salem NC, 1990.

Stevens, Suzanne, Classroom Success for the Learning Disabled, John F. Blair, 1984.

The Orton Dyslexia Society,
Dyslexia, The Language Disability That Can Be Overcome, The Orton Dyslexia Society, 1990.

(*)Trapani, Catherine,
Transition Goals for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities, Pro-Ed.

(*)Vail, Priscilla,
Smart Kids with School Problems, Penguin Books, 1989.

(*)Vail, Priscilla,
About Dyslexia: Unraveling the Myth, Modern Learning Press, 1991.

(*)Vail, Priscilla, Common Ground: Whole Language and Phonics Working Together, Modern Learning Press, 1991.

Vitale, Barbara Meister,
Unicorns are Real, Jalmar Press, 1984.

(*)West, Thomas G.,
In the Mind's Eye, Prometheus, 1991.

Wren, Carol, et.al., College and the High School Student with LD, DePaul University, 1987.


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