Help and hope for parents of children with learning differences. Every child can succeed in school and life, but some children need more help than others. For over 40 years, internationally acclaimed reading specialist and student advocate Dr. Victoria E. Waller has helped children who have trouble reading, who can’t sit still in class, who don’t feel like they can participate - children whom teachers have all but given up on. In Yes! Your Child Can, Dr. Waller shares with parents, teachers, and therapists her proven techniques to create success for children with learning differences and draw out the singular genius within your child. In compassionate, nontechnical, easy-to-understand language, Yes! Your Child Can gives step-by-step guidance on how to help your child achieve in school and build lifelong intellectual confidence. Drawing on the latest science and her own wide-ranging experience, Dr. Waller explains why it’s important to pay attention to your first gut feeling that your child may need extra help and shows how to navigate testing, medication, and choosing a team to help your child. Most importantly, Yes! Your Child Can shows you how to use your child’s natural strengths and passions to build their academic, social, and personal confidence. Dr. Waller empowers parents to let their children follow their own interests, whether that’s learning about sharks, reading to the dog, or building with Legos and writing about their creations. With Dr. Waller’s help, learning can be motivating and fun. Dr. Waller’s techniques are smart, caring, and effective with any child, no matter their current or past educational difficulties. Respectful, compassionate, and offering real help, Yes! Your Child Can is the first book every parent of a child with learning differences should read. AUTHOR: Victoria E. Waller, Ed.D. holds a B.S in Education from Wayne State University, an M.Ed., as a certified reading specialist, and an Ed.D.focusing on reading and learning differences from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Waller has been awarded the University ofCincinnati’s Distinguished Alumna College of Education Award, was one of three finalists for the L.A. Music Center’s Bravo Award forOutstanding Teaching, and was named the Local Hero in the L.A. Times for her Printer Pal Program, connecting students with nursing homeoccupants. She was the creator of the Disney Busy Bags for Travel on Planes and Cars for Disney/Hyperion Books and has created backpacksand toys for M&M Mars, Inc. She was a founding member of the L.A. Children’s Museum, was a veteran speaker for the International Reading Association for 25 years and is the focus of Eve Bunting’s internationally-acclaimed-and Caldecott Medal award-winning middle grade novel, Sixth Grade Sleepover. Waller’s articles on creative reading and writing projects for children have been widely viewed on U.C.L.A.‘s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior website, and the award-winning Grandparentslink.com. Dr. Waller and her husband, Marshall, live in Los Angeles, California. SELLING POINTS: . Proven, easy-to-implement strategies for parents whose kids need extra help in school. Creative approaches to reaching those kids who are smart but just don’t connect with school or subjects. . Real-life stories and solutions from Dr. Waller’s decades of success with unconventional students, many of whom have gone from dead-end diagnoses to prestigious universities and successful careers. It just took someone who knew how to listen, and how to spark the child’s interest. . Guides parents and kids step-by through figuring out what’s going on, working with a diagnosis, getting the right support, and helping any kid discover the joy of learning. . Practical advice parents can put to immediate use to improve their children’s lives. . Combines scientific research on learning with plain-talk on what it all means for the often confused or worried parent. . How to work with teachers, therapists, and doctors; understanding why medication is recommended for some children, and how to evaluate medical options with the real facts. 26 line art illustrations
