Books

Auditory Processing Disorders

Learning Disabilities

Temperament/Personality Differences

Book Lists

Central Auditory Processing Disorder: Strategies for Use with Children and Adolescents, by Dorothy Kelly, D.A., CCC-S Published by Communication Skills Builders. 
 
 

Childhood Speech, Language & Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know,by Patricia Hamaguchi. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
 
 

Auditory Processes by Pamela Gillet. Published by Academic Therapy Publications
 
 

Processing Power: A Guide to CAPD Assessment and Treatment by Jeananne M. Ferre, Ph.D. Available from The Speech Bin 1-800-4-SPEECH
 

Assessment and Management of Central Auditory Processing Disorders in the Educational Setting by Teri James Bellis, Ph.D. Published by Singular Publishing 
 
 

Central Auditory Processing Disorders--New Perspectives by Gail D. Chermak, Ph.D. Washington State University, Pullman, and Frank E. Musiek, Ph.D., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH. Published 1997 by Singular Publishing .
 
 

Central Auditory Processing Disorders: Mostly Management by Jack Katz Ph.D., Gay M. Masters Ph.D., and Nancy Austin Stecker Ph.D., all of the State University of New York, Buffalo. Published in 1998 by Allyn & Bacon. 

The Misunderstood Child: Understanding and Coping With Your Child's Learning Disabilities , by Larry Silver, M.D. Published by McGraw-Hill .
 

Books by Dr. Mel Levine:

• Educational Care : Written for parents and teachers, this book outlines the many phenomenon that can interfere with learning and offers specific suggestions for interventions at home and in school.

 
• All Kinds of Minds: Written for children ages 7 through 11 to help them understand how they learn and that they may have different strengths and weaknesses in learning.

 
• Keeping a Head in School: Written to help children 11 and up to understand and appreciate their own distinct learning profiles.

The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Integration Dysfunction by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A. Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group, a member of Penguin Putnam, Inc.

For more information on sensory integration dysfunction, visit the Sensory Integration International website.

Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. A guide for parents whose child is more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, energetic. Before buying the book, you can read Deborah Shafritz's article on Raising Spirited Children, in which nine temperamental characteristics of "spirited" children are discussed--intensity (strong emotional reactions), persistence, sensitivity, perceptiveness, poor adaptability to transitions or changes in schedules/routines, irregularity of sleeping/eating/bowel habits, activity level, negative first reaction to new people/places/experiences, and mood. 

There's also an online discussion forum for parents of Spirited Kids at ParentsPlace.Com 
 

The Explosive Child : A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, 'Chronically Inflexible' Children  by Ross W. Greene, Ph.D. 

LD Online Book Store  Recommended books are grouped by disability. Links to publishers' websites are also included.
 

International Dyslexia Society Bookstore  This is THE place to look for books on reading disabilities in both children and adults. 
 
 

A.D.D. Warehouse: The 50 + page catalog can be requested online. The print catalog features books, games, and videotapes about learning disabilities other than attention deficit disorder. The book selections include stories about learning disabled children, which are written for children.
My daughter Caitlin (at age 7 1/2) was able to read and recommends the following selections:

• The Don't Give Up Kid by Jeanne Gehret, M.A. 

 
• Trouble With School, by Kathryn Boesel Dunn and Allison Boesel Dunn. A warning to Parents: The child in this story is held back in school, a concept that is probably alarming to all children, but even more so, I think, to a child who is having trouble in school.