Helpful Resources for Professionals

Books

 

Melvin D. Levine, M.D., F.A.A.P.

Developmental Variation and Learning Disorders

Educational Care    

A Mind At A Time

Sharon Begley

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves (New York, 2007)

Robert  Brooks, Ph.D.  and Sam Goldstein, Ph.D.

Raising Resilient Children (New York, 2001)

Craig Pohlman,  Ph.D.

Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling Learners (San Francisco, 2007)

Articles

 

Simos PG, Fletcher JM, Bergman E, et al.
Dyslexia-specific brain activation profile becomes normal following successful remedial training.
Neurology 2002; 58:1208-1213

Kirchhoff BA and Buckner RL.
Functional-Anatomic Correlates of Individual Differences in Memory. Neuron 2006; 51:263-274.

Shaywitz SE, Shaywitz BA, Fulbright RK, et al.
Neural Systems for Compensation and Persistence: Young Adult Outcomes of Childhood Reading Disability.  Biol Psychiatry, 54: 25 (2003)

Powell K. How does the teenage brain work? Nature 2006; 442:865-867.

American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health. The New Morbidity Revisited: A Renewed Commitment to the Psychosocial Aspects of Pediatric Care. Pediatrics 2001 108: 1227-1230.

Other Resources

 

Education Resource Information Center  - ERIC

An internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present.

Note: Although we have listed resources primarily designed for clinicians and teachers, many of the resources on our Family Resources page will also be of interest to professionals.


 
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