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The Pretenders: Gifted
People Who Have Difficulty Learning by Barbara P. Guyer
(Editor), Sally E.
Shaywitz
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- Hardcover: 191 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 9.50 x 6.50
- Publisher: High Tide Press;
(March 1, 2002)
- ISBN: 0965374416
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Book
Description
An estimated 25 million Americans struggle
with learning disabilities. The Pretenders tells the
stories of eight adults who have achieved success in their
careers and in their daily lives by overcoming the incredible
obstacles created by learning disabilities such as dyslexia
and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
These profiles
of intelligent, determined adults who have grown up unable to
learn as easily as their peers are inspirational, engaging,
and informative. The shame and heartache they experienced
through having learning differences that no one understood
will move and enlighten you.
The
Pretenders is a unique book in that it addresses the
question of what happens to these people once they've grown
up.
From the
Foreword by Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., Yale University School of
Medicine
The Pretenders comes at a
particularly opportune time, a time when the very possibility
of a reading disability in highly gifted individuals is often
questioned and frequently misunderstood.
What Dr. Guyer
has accomplished in this simple, graceful, and highly
accessible volume is to make the notion of reading disability
and its consequences for the individual, for his or her
family, for educators and for society, come to life.
The reader
will be deeply moved, as I was, after meeting and reading
about these diverse individuals.
From
the Foreword by Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., Yale University
School of Medicine
The Pretenders comes at a
particularly opportune time, a time when the very possibility
of a reading disability in highly gifted individuals is often
questioned and frequently misunderstood.
What
Dr. Guyer has accomplished in this simple, graceful, and
highly accessible volume is to make the notion of reading
disability and its consequences for the individual, for his or
her family, for educators and for society, come to life.
The
reader will be deeply moved, as I was, after meeting and
reading about these diverse individuals.
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