Reviews for For the Children: Redefining Success in School and Success in Life

The average rating for For the Children: Redefining Success in School and Success in Life based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-08-26 00:00:00 Steve Kemp GREAT for understanding my sweet Devon. I listened to a gifted conference by the authors and a 2E (twice exceptional, meaning gifted with learning issues) conference by them and finally have confirmation that indeed Devon does have dyslexia, because he is gifted and can read at a high level and has great comprehension, it is called stealth dyslexia. It doesn't appear as dyslexia, but he has pretty much all the signs of stealth dyslexia and I have always thought he did. So this book is a really interesting read. I think it is a must read if you have a unique learner in your home. One who you are worried about I guess. If you aren't worried, then you don't need to read.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-07 00:00:00 Nicholas Krist This is probably the best book I've ever read about LD. Seriously, this book is better than 80% of the conversations I had with experts about my child -- and how sad is that? That said, the book is hard. Before you read this book, your child should have a diagnosis of some sort, and you should understand that diagnosis a bit. Appendix A of Fine Until Kindergarten gives a good overview of every LD diagnosis. In order to really understand this book, I actually wrote the contents of each chapter onto file cards and taped them onto a bulletin board. Yes, there's that much information in this book. My biggest frustration is that, although the book goes down to about five levels of sections, the table of contents only goes to two levels, so I kept getting confused. Seriously, adding two more levels to the TOC would fix things. The Eides are brilliant, and they tell you in-depth information about every aspect of your child's challenges. Plus, this is the only book I've ever read that does a good job of explaining working memory and working memory challenges. Highly recommended, but make sure that you have context first.