2e Newsletter Booklist for Adults
This is the place to find out more about books mentioned or reviewed in 2e Newsletter. See a booklist for kids here.
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Author |
Description |
A Guide to Special Education Advocacy: What Parents, Clinicians and Advocates Need to Know |
Matt Cohen |
An overview of current disability law and how it works to help parents, professionals, and clinicians identify practical ways to build positive and effective relationships with schools |
Mel Levine |
A book that explores individual learning patterns and discusses ways for parents and teachers to encourage a child’s strengths and bypass the child’s weaknesses |
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Academic Advocacy for Gifted Children: A Parent's Complete Guide |
Barbara Jackson Gilman |
A guide to advocacy for gifted and twice-exceptional children that's filled with useful information for both parents and educators and which can serve as a handy reference guide on giftedness |
Ask and Tell: Self-Advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum |
Stephen M. Shore (ed.) |
A guide to self-advocacy for children and adults at school and work, and in personal life, written by people with autism |
Asperger Syndrome and Adolescence: Helping Preteens and Teens Get Ready for the Real World |
Teresa Bolick
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A book that addresses the special difficulties that children with AS face during the teenage years
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Asperger Syndrome and Young Children: Building Skills for the Real World |
Teresa Bolick |
A guide for parents and teachers of children aged three to seven who suffer from Asperger Syndrome
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Thom Hartmann |
A book that looks at AD/HD from a positive rather than negative perspective and attempts to explain why so many people wear that label today |
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Katherine Ellison |
A memoir of the author's year of examining AD/HD from the perspectives of someone who both has AD/HD and is raising a child with the disorder, and from the perspective of a journalist looking to better understand it |
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The Cluster Grouping Handbook: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All |
Dina Brulles and |
A guide to understanding and implementing an approach to grouping students in the classroom so that their learning strengths are noticed and accommodated on a daily basis |
College Planning for Gifted Students: Choosing and Getting Into the Right College |
Sandra Berger |
Guides readers through the college-planning process, moving from self-exploration, to college matching, to applying; includes useful timelines for grades 7 through 12. [Especially note the section on underachieving students, pp 36 – 45.] |
Peterson’s Guides |
A guide to more than 750 institutions in the U.S. and Canada that offer programs for special needs students; includes information on how to gain entrance to the learning disability programs |
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Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You’re Not a Straight-A Student |
Loren Pope |
Focuses on schools that are often a good fit for students who are “outside the box.” [Note the chapter titled “The Learning Disabled of Today will Be the Gifted of Tomorrow.”] |
Creative Home Schooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families |
Lisa Rivero |
A guide that contains a wealth of resources, provides many useful suggestions, and reassures parents about their decision to homeschool |
Marlene Bireley |
A practical guide for teachers to understanding the characteristics and needs of twice-exceptional students and meeting those needs in the classroom |
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Mark Haddon |
A novel that does an excellent job of offering readers insight into the mind of Christopher, an intelligent 15-year-old boy with Asperger Syndrome (AS); better suited to teen and adult readers |
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Different Minds: Gifted Children with ADHD, Asperger Syndrome, and other Learning Deficits |
Deirdre Lovecky |
A book that provides insight into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and other learning difficulties |
Diverse Populations of Gifted Children: Meeting Their Needs |
Starr Cline and Diane Schwartz |
A guide to help teachers identify and plan for gifted children from special populations, including children with disabilities, minorities, the learning disabled, preschoolers, the exceptionally gifted, gifted females and underachievers |
Edward M. Hallowell and |
A book with many useful checklists that looks at relationships and the effect AD/HD can have on them |
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Mel Levine |
A book that identifies the many phenomena that interfere with children’s learning experiences at different ages and offers specific suggestions for interventions to use at home and in school |
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Embracing the Monster: Overcoming the Challenges of Hidden Disabilities |
Veronica Crawford with |
A look at just how difficult it is for people who are bright but struggling with hidden disabilities |
Dawn Flanagan and Alan Kaufman |
A step-by-step guide for mental health professionals and others to administering, scoring, and interpreting the WISC®-IV, the newly revised Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children® |
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Margaret Gosfield, editor |
Seven years' worth of the "best of the best" articles from the California Association for the Gifted's publication Gifted Education Communicator |
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Pam and Pete Wright |
An abundance of well organized and clearly presented information that teaches readers how to become effective advocates for children with disabilities |
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Jan and Bob Davidson with |
A frank appraisal of the sorry state of gifted education in the United States today |
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Ronald D. Davis and |
Describes how dyslexics use multi-dimensional rather than verbal thinking and presents a method, the Davis Program, for teaching them to read |
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Gifted and Talented Children with Special Educational Needs: Double Exceptionality |
Diane Montgomery |
A collection of articles from around the English-speaking world on educating twice-exceptional children |
Daniel Amen |
A discussion of what the author believes to be six different types of AD/HD, identified through brain imaging |
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Elaine Aron |
A look at the traits and needs of individuals – many of whom are gifted – who have a sensitive nervous system, a high level of awareness, and easily become overwhelmed or overstimulated |
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Judy Willis |
Strategies that parents and teachers can use to promote learning based on brain research and on the author's experience as both a neurologist and classroom teacher |
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Thomas G. West |
Discusses how some of the most original thinkers in the areas of math and science have been visual thinkers and that some of them have had learning disabilities like dyslexia; also examines how having visual-spatial strengths and verbal weaknesses influenced the lives of well-known individuals, including Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, and Winston Churchill |
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Late, Lost, and Unprepared: Parents’ Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning |
Laurie Dietzel and Joyce Cooper-Kahn |
In this reference-guide-style book, the authors, who are both psychologists and parents, explain what executive functions are, how to tell if a child has executive dysfunction, and how to deal with these weaknesses. |
Jonathan Mooney and David Cole |
An inside account of what it takes to succeed at a prestigious university when you’re a twice-exceptional student; offers plenty of learning tips and strategies that are useful to younger students as well. |
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Like Sound Through Water: |
Karen J. Foli |
A mother's very personal description of her five-year quest to identify the cause of her young son's problems - Central Auditory Processing Disorder; an honest look at the effect of a child’s disability on the entire family |
John Elder Robison |
An entertaining and insightful memoir about growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's in a highly dysfunctional family |
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Michael M. Piechowski |
A look at the emotional life of gifted young people, viewing them through the lens of Dabrowski’s overexciteabilities (extreme sensitivity in these areas: psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational, and emotional) |
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Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger’s, Depression, and Other Disorders |
James Webb, Edward Amend, Nadia Webb, Jean Goerss, Paul Beljan, Richard Olenchak |
Six nationally known health care and education professionals describe how parents and professionals can distinguish between gifted behaviors and pathological behaviors |
Brock and Fernette Eide |
Two physician/parents explain brain-based learning challenges and how a child's unique strengths can be used to overcome them |
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Multiple Intelligences in the Elementary Classroom: A Teacher’s Toolkit |
Susan Baum, Julie Viens, Barbara Slatin with Howard Gardner |
A guide to help teachers use Multiple Intelligences theory to design effective curriculum for their elementary-level students with diverse learning abilities |
Mel Levine |
A book written about children and adults "unjustly" accused of being lazy – individuals who the author states "possess minds that learn and think better than they work" |
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Martin E. Seligman |
Written by a noted psychologist who offers a plan of action for instilling in children a sense of optimism and personal mastery, deterrents to the development of depression |
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Donna Goldberg with Jennifer Zwiebel |
A detailed guide that leads parents through the process of getting their children organized both at home and at school |
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Carol Stock Kranowitz |
A look at sensory processing disorder, a common but frequently misdiagnosed problem; includes information on vision and hearing deficits, motor skill problems, picky eaters, AD/HD, autism, and other disorders |
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Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level |
Sally Shaywitz, M.D. |
A guide from Yale neuroscientist Sally Shaywitz to help parents and educators understand dyslexia and employ effective strategies for treating it |
Perri Klass, M.D. and Eileen Costello |
A very clear and understandable guide to raising children who once would have been considered odd or eccentric but today are likely to have a medical or psychiatric diagnosis; written by two Harvard-trained pediatricians who share their perspectives as both moms and physicians |
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Alexandra Golon |
A resource for parents and others involved in the care and teaching of visual-spatial children |
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Re-Forming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child |
Karen Rogers |
A research-based guide to school enrichment and acceleration |
Sylvia Rimm |
Psychologist Sylvia Rimm offers simple advice to parents of obese children |
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Gabor Maté |
A very personal book that challenges common thinking about AD/HD |
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Stephan M. Silverman and |
A guide to help parents and educators understand Asperger Syndrome (AS) and meet the needs of children who have this autism spectrum disorder |
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Stan Davis |
A guide to setting up school anti-bullying programs that work |
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Lynn F. Hellerstein |
A guide to addressing challenges in learning related to visual processing issues as well as stress and lack of confidence or motivation |
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Lucy Jane Miller |
A resource written by the leading researcher on sensory processing disorder to help parents and others identify and address SPD in children |
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Jean Ayres |
A reference book on sensory integration written by the pioneer of this field |
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Karen A. Smith and Karen R. Gouze |
Two psychologists and mothers of sensory-sensitive children explain the role that sensory processing problems play in a child's emotional and behavioral difficulties |
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Sydney S. Zentall, and |
A guide for teaching elementary and high school children to do homework independently and successfully |
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Richard Weinfeld, Sue Jeweler, Linda Barnes-Robinson, Betty Shevitz |
A guide to help parents and educators answer these questions: Who are the kids with learning difficulties? How do we find them? What can we do for them? What are appropriate programs and services? What will help them overcome their learning difficulties? |
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Priscilla Vail |
A look at gifted children’s characteristics and needs and a description of how parents, educators, and others can help children deal with problems in what the author calls the five learning systems |
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Social/Emotional Issues, Underachievement, and Counseling of Gifted and Talented Students |
Sidney M. Moon and Sally M. Reis (Editors) |
Part of the National Association for Gifted Children series Essential Readings in Gifted Education; a collection of articles from Gifted Child Quarterly |
Some of My Best Friends are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Preschool to High School |
Judith Wynn Halsted |
A guide to approximately 300 books that librarians, teachers, and parents can recommend to gifted children for their enjoyment and to help them gain perspective on themselves and others |
Joan Franklin Smutny |
A guide to help parents recognize and develop their children's gifts and become powerful advocates for their children at school |
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Ellen Braaten and |
Two psychologists help parents understand how psychological testing works and how to use testing to get the best help for their children |
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Susan Winebrenner
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Strategies and techniques that teachers can use to meet the learning needs of gifted/talented students; includes information on twice-exceptional students |
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Editors: Susan K. Johnsen and James Kendrick |
A collection of articles that have appeared in Gifted Child Today, a monthly magazine on gifted education published by Prufrock Press |
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Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom |
Susan Winebrenner
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Strategies and techniques that teachers can use to challenge and motivate struggling students |
Chris A. Zeigler |
A comprehensive reference guide for parents and educators that has useful information about kids of all ages and can apply to children with LDs as well as AD/HD |
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Rebecca Greene |
An eye-opening guide to alternative learning experiences for high schoolers, from mentorships to internships to study abroad programs; described as a book for kids “feeling boxed in by high school” |
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Susan Baum with Steven V. Owen |
A rich resource to help teachers and parents identify and meet the needs of twice-exceptional students |
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Twice-Exceptional and Special Populations of Gifted Students |
Susan Baum and Sally M. Reis (Editors) |
Part of the National Association for Gifted Children series Essential Readings in Gifted Education; a collection of articles from Gifted Child Quarterly |
Twice-Exceptional Gifted Children: Understanding, Teaching, and Counseling Gifted Students |
Beverly Trail |
A guide that lays out the essential information needed to understand who twice-exceptional children are, what challenges they face, what the consequences are of not addressing their challenges, and how professionals and parents can work together to meet their needs |
Rosemary Callard-Szulgit |
An overview of the topic of gifted children with disabilities, both learning and physical, as well as emotional disturbance |
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Joan Franklin Smutny (Editor) |
A collection of over 30 articles that focus on the needs of students who may be included in gifted programs but whose unique problems and circumstances are not often well understood or addressed |
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Steven E. Curtis |
A guide to help parents help parents determine whether their child's behavior is within the bounds of normal or a problem that requires professional help |
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Kiesa Kay, Editor |
A collection of over 40 articles by parents, teachers, and twice exceptional children that focus on the strategies and environments that best meet the needs of twice-exceptional children |
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Linda Silverman |
A blueprint for parenting, teaching and living with those who think in images |
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When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs |
Jim Delisle and Judy Galbraith |
A look at gifted students from the "inside out," focusing on their social and emotional needs, including sections on underachievement and being a gifted teacher |
When the Brain Can't Hear: |
Teri James Bellis |
A straightforward discussion of brain-related auditory disorders in children and adults, including diagnosis (and misdiagnosis) and the treatment of the disorders along with ways of compensating for them |
When the Labels Don't Fit: A New Approach to Raising a Challenging Child |
Barbara Probst |
An alternative to viewing differences as disorders, based on developing an understanding of a child’s temperament |
Sylvia Rimm |
A practical, six-step program that helps parents and teachers work together to get underachieving students back on track |
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Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture |
Kirsten Olson |
A look at the seven different types of wounds that school systems can inflict on students, parents, and teachers; ways to promote healing; and possibilities for changing our education system to alleviate harm and embrace cognitive diversity |