Learning Disabilities
from Susan Winebrenner

At the website, www.ericec.org, you can download without cost many helpful Digests, including some on Teaching Students with ADHD, with Autism, with Tourette’s and many other categories of teaching challenge.

Books That Can Help and Other Sources of Information

Susan Baum, Steven Owen, To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled: Strategies for Helping Bright Students with LD, ADHD, and More (Paperback)
Helps parents and teachers understand twice-exceptional students. 

Birely, Marlene. Crossover Children: A Sourcebook for Helping the Learning Disabled/Gifted Child. Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children. 1995. <<buy>>

Bowers, Daphne. Twice-Exceptional: Gifted Students with Disabilities. Cherry Creek, Co school brochure. (303) 773-1765

Campbell, Linda et al. Teaching and Learning through Multiple Intelligences. West Nyack, NJ: Allyn and Bacon. 1996. 

Coil Carolyn. Becoming an Achiever. Pieces of Learning 1994. Dayton, OH: Specific strategies for improving achievement for kids who have trouble learning and keeping track of their work.

Cummings, Rhoda and Fisher, Gary. The School Survival Guide for Kids with LD. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit. 1991. 

Dixon, John. The Spatial Child. Springfield, IL: Charles C . Thomas. 1983. An excellent source for understanding right-brain, visual-spatial learners who often do not appear to be gifted, even though they are. 

Fowler, Mary. Attention Deficit Disorders: An In-Depth Look from an Educational Perspective. Plantation, FL: CHADD. 1992.

Freed, Jeffrey. Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of your ADD Child. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1998. Helps parents and teachers understand and help right-brained learners. Lots of tips on how to help them develop more effective skills for learning content.

Guyer, Barbara and Shaywitz, Sally. The Pretenders: Gifted People Who Have Difficulty Learning. Homewood: High Tide, 1997. How gifted people overcome learning difficulties. 

Jones, Carroll, Social and Emotional Development of Exceptional Students: Handicapped and Gifted. Springfield, IL. Charles C Thomas, 1992. 

Johns Hopkins University (JUH) Center for Talented Youth Staff. The Gifted Learning Disabled Student, revised edition. 1991. 

Lazear, David, Dee Dickinson . Eight Ways of Teaching. Arlingon Heights, IL: Skylight Publishing, 2003. Lazear's updated resource about Multiple Intelligences in the classroom. 

Lazear, David. Eight Ways of Teaching. Arlingon Heights, IL: Skylight Publishing, 1999.  

Lee, Christopher and Shirley Jackson. Faking It: A Look into the Mind of a Creative Learner. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 1992. This book, written by a young man with serious learning difficulties, helps people without LD understand what it's like to experience it. 

Levine, Mel. Keeping A Head in School.: A Student's Book about Learning Abilities and Learning Disorders. Toronto: Educator's Publishing Service. 1990. 
This very respected pediatrician describes many practical strategies for helping struggling students take charge of their own learning and make it more successful.

 "Gifted Children with AD/HD." Providence, RI: Gifted Resource Center of New England, 1999.

Parker, Harvey. The ADD Hyperactivity Handbook for Schools. Plantation FL: Impact Publications. 1992 Includes specific interventions for teaching kids with ADD and ADHD. 

Rief, Sandra F. How To Reach And Teach Children With Add/adhd: Practical Techniques, Strategies, And Interventions West Nyack, NJ: Center for Applied Research. 1993

Rief, Sandra F. How to Reach and Teach Add/Adhd Children: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions for Helping Children With Attention Problems and HyperReif, Sandra. How to Reach and Teach Add/Adhd Children: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions for Helping Children With Attention Problems and Hyper, 2005, John Wiley & Sons Inc

Reis, Sally, Neu, Terry and McGuire, Joan. Talents in two places: Case studies of high ability students with learning disabilities who have achieved. (Research Monograph 95114, Storrs, CT: The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, University of Connecticut. 1995.

A related disorder is called Nonverbal Learning Disability - NLD. 

Rourke, B. Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: The Syndrome and the Model. New York: Guilford Press, 1996. 
_____Also Thompson, Sue. The Source For Nonverbal Learning Disorders. Linguisystems. 1-800-776-4332. www.linguisystems.com

Silverman, Linda.  Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner. Denver, CO, DeLeon Publishing, 2002

Stevens, S. Enabling Disorganized Students to Succeed. Winston-Salem, NC: Learning Development Network, 1987. <<buy>>

Vail, Patricia. Smart Kids with School Problems. New York: New American Library. Describes gifted kids who also have learning difficulties 1987. <<buy>>

Waldron, K.A. Teaching techniques for the learning disabled/gifted student. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 6, 40-43. 1991.

West, Thomas. In the Mind's Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People with Dyslexia and other Learning Difficulties. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1997. 

Whitmore, J. and Maker, C.J. Intellectual Giftedness in Disabled Persons. Austin, TX: PRO_ED, 1985. 

Whitmore, Joanne. Giftedness, Conflict and Underachievement. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1983. A landmark book highlighting the case studies of several twice-exceptional students in the primary grades - all with high IQ's who were mis-identified only by their learning challenges. Demonstrates how much the school can do to reverse underachievement. <<buy>>

Willard-Holt, Colleen. "Dual Exceptionalities:. ERIC document #E574. May, 1999. An updated resource of current research and practice. 

Other Sources of Information

A newsletter for parents and teachers of twice exceptional children is available at www.2enewsletter.com.

ADD Warehouse: Catalog of materials for teaching and parenting kids with learning challenges. 1-800-233-9273. www.addwarehouse.com

AEGUS: Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students. Contact Lois Baldwin for information on joining and accessing the organization's resources. 
For information on Hyperlexia and Asperger's Syndrome:
Center for Speech and Language Disorders. 195 W. SpanglerRoad, Elmhurst, IL.60126. (630) 530-8551. www.csld.com

Irlen Clinic for Perceptual and Learning Development. 1-800-554-7536. www.irlen.com Call for names of people in your area who can screen youngsters for http://www.hale.ndo.co.uk/scotopic/ 

International Dyslexia Association. http://www.interdys.org. This source can help you find a chapter in your state that can lead you to resources to help children who have difficulty reading.

LaVoie, Richard. How Difficult Can This Be, and Last One Picked, First One Picked on. Two videos from PBS Video: 1-800-645-4727. www.pbs.org
Riveting and informative sources to help those without learning disabilities understand what it is like to have them.

LD online: www.ldonline.org Clearinghouse for information on children with learning difficulties.

National Research Center for Gifted and Talented. University of CT: Storrs, CT. 860-486-4826. www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt.html

ERIC Digests: Gifted But Learning Disabled, Dual Exceptionalities, (ERIC EC Digest #E574) , Gifted Children with AD/HD, and ADHD and Children Who are Gifted. www.askericec.org

Nielsen, Elizabeth and Higgins, Dennis. Directors of the Twice Exceptional Child Project and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. (505) 277-6652. Source for research and effective practices regarding twice-exceptional learners. 

PRO-ED. Catalog of materials for all categories of special education and gifted education as well. 
1-800- 897-3202. Austin, TX. www.proedinc.com

Recording For the Blind and Dyslexic. 

Many states have their own libraries - consult national office for further information

SENG: Social-Emotional Needs of the Gifted. A national organization, now operated by Dr. James Webb from Scottsdale, AZ. www.senggifted.org 

The Brain Store: Eric Jensen's catalog of materials designed to enhance learning by using brain-compatible strategies. San Diego, CA. 
1-800-325-4769. www.thebrainstore.com