Reviews for The Special Educator's Book of Lists

The average rating for The Special Educator's Book of Lists based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-04-30 00:00:00 Joseph Marinella This is definitely not a book one would read word for word, but it serves its purpose well. I was reading as both a special educator and a parent of a child who receives special education, so I had to pick and choose what I needed. The book is well organized and packs a wealth of information into one handy volume. All of this could be found online in individual searches, but this is a good resource for specifics.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-31 00:00:00 Nicolas Quilter I read this book while on the waiting list to take my developmentally disabled baby to Glenn Doman's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. A chiropractor had previously told us to read his Teach Your Baby to Read, which prompted me to contact the Institutes and then apply. We were on the Institutes' Intensive Program for four years, from 1986 to 1990, during which time my immobile son became a walker and made other impressive gains, and I later wrote about the experience in a memoir (published in 2011). For someone who has the driving motivation to find answers for a beloved child's poorly understood problems, Doman's book offers perhaps the first glimmer of hope. His account tells how he and the other founders of the Institutes arrived at their philosophy, and while some of what he says was out of date even when I read it, it all sounds very common-sensical. Given the sad fact that generally no other resources are offering anything approaching hope, the appeal of this sort of thing is undeniable. My view of the Institutes itself is more complicated than my view of this book (for details, please listen to an interview I gave here), but the book deserves its enduring place in the literature.