Reading - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965025209 ISBN 13: 9780965025201

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This non-fictional account of Tony Petri, learning disabled but gifted teenager, is written in compelling docudrama form to help the reader understand:

*the controlled rage that is a hidden byproduct of school failure;
*the frustration of the help-seeking process;
*the powerlessness of everyone involved in that process--students, families, teachers, and helping professionals;
*the ultimate hope for reversal of both the failure and the rage.

By reconstructing Tony's life and each affront to his sensitivies and self-worth, we see another kind of failure--not of the boy but of the school and professional systems--failure to listen to what was really happening for Tony, and failure to really communicate with each other.

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Dorothy Fink Ungerleider, an educational therapist in Encino, California, is founding President, Advisory Board Chair, and Fellow of the national Association of Educational Therapists. She pioneered the movement to standardize the profession, is a columnist for the journal, The Educational Therapist. She is past president of the Multidisciplinary Academy of Clinical Education and contributed to it's document, Strategies for Public School Reform, served on the committee (LEARN) to restructure the Los Angeles Unified Schools, lectured at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges to juvenile court judges and probation officers on the link between learning disabilities and juvenile delinquency, and spearheaded a community service project bringing pro bono remedial and advocacy services to unserved delinquent gang and high risk youth at several Los Angeles agencies. She continues to provide those direct services at New Directions for Youth, focussing on literacy and mathematics remediation. Dorothy Ungerleider received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Special Education of Emotionally Disturbed Youth, and her graduate degree from California State University in Learning and Reading Disorders.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Erscheinungsdatum: 1800
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0965025209
• ISBN 13: 9780965025201
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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