I poured over this book after receiving my child's
evaluation. Full of nuts and bolts explanations on
various learning difficulties. Gave me hope for
the future. I couldn't help but wonder if it
shouldn't be updated since it is now 20 years old
and much has happened in the study of children's
learning issues. Still, it was clearly ahead of
its time. I was hoping for information on how I
could work with my son. There were some good tips
for parents, but I felt that this book was more
about working with school system and once properly
diagnosed, the school system would direct the
efforts to help the child. I'm one of those who
doesn't completely trust the system and wants to
do more for myself. Still it gave me some
information that I didn't already have that I can
use when working with my son's teachers. I thought
it did good job of describing the issues for smart
kids who are having trouble in school, especially
in the area of language. It described how school
personnel test and asses and child for the various
issues and what the test scores mean. I thought
the case histories were very illustrative.
