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Learning Disability Resources
 

Practical Issues

 

Learning Disabilities and Employment

Books and videos

  • Learning a living: A guide to planning your career and finding a job for people with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and dyslexia / Tanis H. Bryan

  • Meeting the challenge of learning disabilities in adulthood / Arlyn J. Roffman

  • Learning disabilities and employment /Paul Jay Gerber

  • Adult dyslexia: A guide for the workplace / Gary Fitzgibbon and Brian O'Connor

  • ADHD secrets of success: Coaching yourself to fulfillment in the business world / Thom Hartmann

  • Changing policy and practice for people with learning disabilities / Peter J. Mittler

  • Transition and students with learning disabilities: Facilitating the movement from school to adult life / James R. Patton

  • Square peg in a round table: Coping with learning differences at home, in school, and at work / Jimmie H. Shreve

  • Facing learning disabilities in the adult years / Joan Shapiro

  • Learning disabilities: Lifelong issues / Shirley C. Cramer

  • Learning disabilities: The challenges of adulthood / James R. Patton

  • Succeeding in the workplace: Attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities in the workplace: a guide for success / Peter S. Latham

  • Job strategies for people with disabilities: Enable yourself for today's job market / Melanie Astaire Witt

  • Dyslexia in adults: Education and employment / Gavin Reid

  • Practical strategies for living with dyslexia / Maria Chivers

  • Dyslexia in the workplace / Diana Bartlett

Web sites

 

Learning Disabilities and Treatment

Books and videos

  • The LCP solution: The remarkable nutritional treatment for ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia / Jacqueline B. Stordy

  • Adult AD/HD: A reader friendly guide to identifying, understanding, and treating adult attention/hyperactivity disorder / Michele Novotni, Thomas A. Whiteman, with Randy Petersen

  • Getting rid of ritalin: How neurofeedback can successfully treat attention deficit disorder without drugs / Robert W. Hill and Eduardo Castro

  • The A. D. D. and A. D. H. D. diet! : A comprehensive look at contributing factors and natural treatments for symptoms of attention deficit and hyperactivity / Rachel Bell and Howard Peiper

  • Gender issues and ADHD: Research, diagnosis, and treatment / Patricia O. Quinn

  • Interventions for students with learning disabilities: A metaanalysis of treatment outcomes / Lee H. Swanson

  • Cognitive-behavior therapy for people with learning disabilities / Biza S. Kroese

  • Me, LD and drugs: How I got to where I am / Nathan Stockstill

  • Development reading disabilities: A language based treatment approach / Candace L. Goldsworthy

  • Stimulant drugs and ADHD: Basic and clinical neuroscience / Mary V. Solanto

  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (in adults and children): The latest assessment and treatment strategies / Keith C. Conners

  • No more Ritalin: Treating ADHD without drugs / Mary Ann Block

  • Understanding learning disabilities: The sourcebook for causes, disorders, and treatments / Carol Turkington

Web sites

 

Overcoming Learning Disabilities - General

Books and videos

  • Overcoming dyslexia in children, adolescent, and adults / Dale R. Jordan

  • Fragments: Copying with attention deficit disorder / Amy E. Stein

  • Healing ADD: The breakthrough program that allows you to see and heal the 6 types of ADD / Daniel G. Amen

  • Academic success strategies for adolescents with learning disabilities and ADHD / Esther Minskoff and David Allshopp

  • Practical strategies for living with dyslexia / Maria Chivers

  • ADHD secrets of success: Coaching yourself to fulfillment in the business world / Thom Hartmann

  • ADD-friendly ways to organize your life / Judith Kolbert and Kathleen Nadeau

  • Making ADHD a gift: Teaching Superman how to fly / Robert Evert Cimera

  • Dyslexia: Theory and practice of remedial instruction / Diana B. Clark

  • Reading difficulties: Their diagnosis and correction / Guy L. Bond

  • Reading problems: Consultation and remediation / P. G. Aaron

  • Overcoming dyslexia: A new and complete science-based program for reading problems at any level / Sally E. Shaywitz

  • Reading by the color: Overcoming dyslexia and other reading disabilities through the Irlen method / Helen Irlen - M-STACK RC394.W6I75 1991

  • The adult dyslexic: Interventions and outcomes / David McLoughlin

Web sites

Overcoming Learning Disabilities - College Students

Books

  • Learning outside the lines: Two Ivy League students with learning disabilities and ADHD give you the tools for academic success and educational revolution / Jonathan Mooney and David Cole - M-STACK LC4818.5M66 2000

Assistance

  • For assistance with audio recording of texts and other books contact:

          Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic

          20 Roszel Rd.

          Princeton, NJ 08540

          (866) 732-3585

          www.rfbd.org

  • For information about Admissions Tests, Getting Ready for College, Selecting Postsecondary Transition Programs, How to Choose a College, and Financial Aid for Students with Disabilities contact:         

          HEATH  Resource Center

          One Dupont Circle, Suite 800

          Washington, DC 20036

          (800) 544-3284

  • Contact the following organization if you wish to be evaluated for a learning disability. Sliding-scale fees may be available.

          Learning Disability Assn. of Connecticut

          (860) 560-1711

          www.dlact.org

  • For general assistance contact the State of Connecticut

          Bureau of Rehabilitation Services

          (800) 537-2549

          

College Programs for Students with Learning Disabilities

Books and videos

  • Learning disabilities in higher education and beyond: International perspectives / Susan A. Vogel (Ed.)

  • Colleges with programs for students with learning disabilities or attention deficit disorders / Charles T. Mangrum and S. S. Strichart (Eds.) - T-REF LC4818.38.C655 2000

  • Peterson's colleges for students with learning disabilities or ADD (7th edition)

  • Colleges with programs for students with learning disabilities: A handbook / Susan A. Vogel

  • The K & W guide to colleges for students with learning disabilities or attention deficit disorder / Marybeth Kravets

Web sites

 

Legal Aspects

Books and videos

  • Americans with Disabilities Act - M-REFSTACK REF K480.A35A542 1992

  • Americans with Disabilities Act handbook - M-REFSTACK KF3469.A85 1991 or T-REF KF3469.A85 1991

  • Americans with Disabilities Act handbook / Maureen Harrison and Steve Gilbert (Eds.) - M-STACK KF480.A32 1992

  • Americans with Disabilities Act [videorecording]: New access to the workplace / MIT Film & Video - M-STACK KF480.A53 1991 COPY 1 or T-STACKS KF480.A53 1991 COPY 2

  • Basics of the American with Disabilities Act [videorecording] / Windstar Studios - T-STACK KF3469.B37 1992

  • Legal insights in higher education for students with learning disabilities and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder [videorecording] / Jeanne M. Kincaid

Web sites

 

For inquiries or suggestions please contact Chris Scarborough , Learning Disabilities Specialist.

 

 
 

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