Help for the Struggling Student: Ready-to-Use Strategies and Lessons to Build Attention, Memory, and Organizational Skills

by Mimi Gold

Overview

Here is a unique picture book of learning solutions for teachers who are trying to help students struggling in three main areas of learning - attention, memory, and organization. For each area, it identifies specific problems such as difficulties with left to right scanning (an attention problem), presents an observed student behavior, explains the problem, and provides strategies and visuals to correct it, including illustrated worksheets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787965884
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/17/2003
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.56(w) x 11.04(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Mimi Gold (Masters in Human Development) is the school program coordinator for children and adolescents who are hospitalized in the Rehabilitation Departments of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia. In addition, she works as an educational consultant, advising families and schools on special services, cognitive therapy, and instructional strategies. For more than two decades, her work has focused on meeting the special needs of students with learning disabilities.

Table of Contents

About the Resource

Section 1: How students learn

Section 2: Attention-enhancing strategies

Section 3: Memory-enhancing strategies

Section 4: Organization-enhancing strategies