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Educational Care, 2nd Edition
by Melvin D. Levine, M.D., F.A.A.P.
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Educational Care: A System for Understanding and Helping Children with Learning Differences at Home and in School, 2nd Edition is written for parents and teachers. This invaluable resource is based on the premise that education should be a system of care that provides for the needs of individual students. The book identifies and describes 26 common behaviors or phenomena that can appear in students at different ages and interfere with learning. Brief case studies illustrate each phenomenon. The phenomena are grouped according to the following 6 themes: weak attention controls, reduced remembering, chronic misunderstanding, deficient output, delayed skill acquisition, and poor adaptation in school.

Following the analysis of each phenomenon are lists of specific suggestions for parents and teachers about how to help students who are having difficulty with that particular area. These lists provide ideas about how to help a child demystify his or her learning challenge by naming, explaining, and discussing it. The book concludes with clear descriptions of different methods, levels and kinds of assessment along with an overview of ways to manage children’s learning problems, including bypass strategies and medical treatments. The appendixes contain a variety of interview forms that can be used with children.

Newly revised in 2001, the 2nd Edition of Educational Care includes the following additions:
• a wealth of new management inserts for both home and school
• a discussion of the eight neurodevelopmental constructs that help parents and teachers to better understand the source of a child’s learning differences
• new charts and diagrams to visually represent important concepts
• updates to terminology throughout
• updates to the medical table
• a new resource list of books and curricula for struggling readers
• a list of “intervention templates” providing concrete examples of how to address specific points of academic breakdown
• a new resource list for parents, students, and educators including online resources, national organizations devoted to learning differences, books, journals, video- and audiotapes, and other resources

	Educational Care	Developmental Variation
Main Audience	teachers and parents	professionals, including but not limited to teachers
Focus	hands-on solutions	causes and descriptions of differences
Assessment	tests included in book for parents, teachers	lists common assessment tools, both standardized and informal, but none included in book
General	practical applications for teachers and parents presented in an informative and comprehensive but nonthreatening way	clinical/technical information for professionals who can then discuss the information with teachers and parents and help them to apply it