It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success by Richard Lavoie - ISBN: 9780743254656
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Best known for his PBS-TV videos, a special education expert now reveals ways to help children with learning disabilities find social success.

It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success

Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success

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  • Paperback

    394 pages

  • Release Date

    8 August 2006

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Summary

ADHD - Anxiety - Nonverbal - Communication - Disorders - Visual/Spatial - Disorders - Executive Functioning Difficulties

As any parent, teacher, coach, or caregiver of a learning disabled child knows, every learning disability has a social component. The ADD child constantly interrupts and doesn‘t follow directions. The child with visual-spatial issues loses his belongings. The child with a nonverbal communication disorder fails to gesture when she talks. These children are socially o…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780743254656
ISBN-10:0743254651
Author:Richard Lavoie
Publisher:Touchstone Books
Imprint:Atria Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:394
Release Date:8 August 2006
Weight:560g
Dimensions:33mm x 155mm x 231mm
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Critics Review

“The best guide of its kind ever written… a major achievement.” – Edward Hallowell, M.D.,Coauthor of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction

About The Author

Richard Lavoie

Richard Lavoie, M.A., M.Ed., has worked as a teacher and headmaster at residential special education facilities for the past thirty years. He holds three degrees in special education and serves as a consultant to several agencies and organizations. The father of three adult children, he lives with his wife in Barnstable, Massachusetts. He welcomes visitors to his website at

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