Helping Students with Learning Disabilities
Educational therapist, Addie Cusimano, answers these questions in her book entitled, Learning Disabilities: There is a Cure. Presented in this book are new findings about specific facets of learning that our missing in our basic educational programs. Emphasis is placed on the need for developmental instruction of the essential skills of visual memory, auditory memory (listening), visual perception and auditory perception. Ms. Cusimano's book offers an excellent guide for all parents, educators, school psychologists, social workers, learning disabled adults, and physicians who work with students who have a learning disorder. It is also an excellent source for all parents and classroom teachers to read to gain insight into the basic learning skills that all students, learning disabled to gifted need to have developed in order to learn with ease and reach their full potential.
Forty percent of American students are reading below grade level. Two out of ten students are learning disabled (dyslexic). For years educators, in search of the right reading approach for all children, have switched from a sight approach, to a phonetic approach, to linguistic, to whole language, and now, also, to an integrated approach. Yet, none have proved to be completely effective. Author, Addie Cusimano, has
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solved the dilemma by composing an approach that works with all students, learning disabled and those who are not learning disabled. Her program has been used with consistent success at a private learning center where she was director, diagnostician, clinician and researcher for close to twenty years.
Addie Cusimano presents her secrets for success in this book. She discusses many overlooked facets of learning, thinking, writing, studying and reading skill development and offers solutions for educators parents and other professionals who work with students. She sheds new light on the development of the essential learning skills of visual perception, visual memory, auditory perception and auditory memory (listening). Her preface is that learning disabled students can and should be cured at an elementary level, and that the best reading approach is one that would incorporate many more facets of learning than are presently taught.
Ms. Cusimano's book, based on her many years of experience and success with the diagnosis and remediation of students with learning disabilities, offers a refreshing and assured method for the solution of our academic woes.
Two of many positive reviews:
"Ms. Cusimano has made a valuable contribution to clarifying some of the complexities surrounding learning disabilities. The text that she has produced is very easy to read with many personal accounts that substantiate Ms. Cusimano's points of emphasis........This book was refreshing as a tool that brings simplification to an area that is often presented in a sophisticated manner, not to be understood by laymen." Deborah Schadler, PhD, Coordinator of Undergraduate Special Education -Gwynedd-Mercy College
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LEARNING DISABILITIES: THERE IS A CURE
CAN LEARNING DISABLED (DYSLEXIC) CHILDREN BE CURED?
WHAT IS THE RIGHT READING APPROACH FOR ALL CHILDREN,
LEARNING DISABLED TO GIFTED?
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About the Author:
Addie Cusimano, an educational therapist with more than thirty-five years of experience working as a diagnostician, clinician, researcher and teacher shares her findings on educating children from learning disabled (dyslexic) to gifted. Written in an easy to read format, Ms. Cusimano, a reading specialist, discusses various facets of basic skills and learning skills that are lacking in our educational curriculums. In her books she presents the learning skills that all children must develop in order to learn with ease, and explains what parents and educators can do to help develop these skills. Her preface is that children with a learning disability can and should be cured at an elementary level, and that the best reading approach is one that incorporates many more facets of learning than are presently taught. Her book includes eye-opening information on reading, writing, spelling, mathematics, auditory memory (listening), visual memory (visual sequencing and recall), visual perception, auditory perception, eye-hand coordination, study skills, the best reading approach and practical techniques for developing these skills. Her findings offer obtainable solutions for the fulfillment of the "No Child Left Behind" Act.
"Learning Disabilities: There is a Cure is a wonderful source for all teachers, school psychologists and college students who are in a teacher training program." Judy Higgins-Director of Counselors, School Psychologists and Social Workers PA
Note: This book makes an excellent text for the training of classroom teachers, reading specialists and special education teachers.
