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Summary: NLD
Review: This is a wonderful book for the parents of children just DX with Nonverbal Learning Disorder. It gives a clear and easy understanding of NLD. It is based on personal experiences also that are very helpful. The author helps you understand your own feelings and that of your child. It offered idea's on how to deal with the school system. Its a must read.
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Summary: Great resource for NLD and Aspergers
Review: This is a wonderful supportive book about embracing the differences in your special needs child. As a parent of an Asperger child, this book was very helpful about how to manage school, home and still have a fun time with your child. If I am having a tough day, I can pull out the book and be reminded that it is important to find the fun things in life, in addition to the proper intervention. Very helpful with specific interventions. The stories in it are just priceless for anyone who lives this every day.
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Summary: Lots about her stuggles, few real facts
Review: This is one mother's experience dealing with this newly recognized and often mislabled disorder. Her son's tribulations are heartbreaking to be sure and her advocacy for him is nothing short of heroic, however I was looking for more hard facts than she offers. If you need to commiserate, read this one.
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Summary: My Son My Son Let Me Tell You About My Son
Review: What a frustrating book! The author spent a tremendous amount of energy learning all she could about NLD (Nonverbal Learning Disability) because her son had it. She became a tireless advocate for him, and now she does Occupational Therapy with other children who have the disability. But from reading the book you would never tell she met anyone else with NLD besides her own kid. Like Whitney, I've done the same research as her, I've talked to the experts, I've tried the different therapies, I've attended the conferences. But, in the words of a presenter at this year's NLDA Symposium: "If you've seen one child with NLD... you've seen one child with NLD." Whitney has not learned this important lesson. To her, NLD begins and ends with her son's symptoms.Over and over I'd read comments such as "NLD children are..." and a term that did not apply to my child at all. And I know other NLD children; we parents naturally seek each other out and pool our information. Whitney's conclusions didn't apply to all of these children either. The book is structured with each chapter opening with a short vignette about My Son My Son Have I Gone Another Page Without Mentioning Him Well Here He Is Again! From there I would grit my teeth and then read some mostly useful information. The list of resources at the end was terrific. But I can't recommend this book as highly as some of the others in the NLD Canon, because of the High Annoyance Factor another reviewer mentions (I agree). Yet the Error of Sweeping Conclusions is a far more fatal flaw. What I find particularly interesting is that I picked up an early draft of this book with a different title, and saw the same vignettes with the identity of MY SON MY SON disguised! These generic tales were far easier to take, but having read both books it was clear who Whitney was most interested in observing, and seeing which unpleasant events about him made the cut to the published book. I wonder if this book could stand on its own without the irritating elegies to Zac; almost half the book would disappear. Yet I asked my child's teacher to read it because the descriptions of him so perfectly captured another child at our school. (But not all the OTHER children we know about with NLD, and that's the problem!) If you want to read about a mother's love for her troubled son, dig on in. If you want to get a sense of what you will be up against in trying to get services for your NLD child, check it out. If you enjoy vivid descriptions coupled with excellent observations of one particular individual, enjoy! But if you need help for YOUR child, be forewarned: this is not the first book to read, and it should not be the last one either. I'd recommend the original and best, Sue Thompson's "The Source for Nonverbal Learning Disabilities" if you read only one book.
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