Overcoming Underachieving: An Action Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed in School
by Sam Goldstein, Nancy Mather
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Help your child succeed! If your child is falling behind in school, you know what heartacheis --watching the struggle, feeling the frustration, yearning tohelp --but what can you do? You can do a lot! In Overcoming Underachieving two nationallyrecognized experts in children's school problems show you how tobecome your child's advocate, coach, and guide through theeducational process. Using numerous case examples, they help youpinpoint your child's unique learning patterns and the show more problemsthat interfere with learning, behavior, and achievement. This information-packed book provides dozens of creative,parent-tested tools to help your child overcome difficulties withreading, math, handwriting, study skills, memorization, attentionspan, and many other problems that affect school success. With thehelp of Overcoming Underachieving, you can: * Learn proven methods of assessing your child's patterns oflearning and behaving * Describe learning and behavior problems clearly to teachers andother educators * Develop strategies that use strengths to overcome weaknesses * Set goals your child really can achieve * Find out how to improve your child's behavior andself-esteem Emotional support is important, but you can give your son ordaughter even more. Find out how in Overcoming Underachieving. show lessTags
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Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., is a member of the faculty at the University of Utah and is in private practice at the Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City. He is on staff at the Primary Children's Medical Center and the University Neuropsychiatric Institute Robert Brooks, Ph.D., is a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School and show more is on staff at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts show less
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