Raising NLD Superstars: What Families with Nonverbal Learning Disorders Need to Know about Nurturing Confident, Competent Kids

by Marcia Brown Rubinstien

Book Overview

Raising NLD Superstars is essential reading for all those who come in to contact with children with non-verbal learning disorders (NLD). Instead of insisting upon the one size fits all model of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843107708
• ISBN13: 9781843107705
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Enlightening!

This book is jam packed with information about NLD. It's a page turner for those of you who need this very important information about your NLD child. Marcia has delved into areas of this difficult disability with a vengence, and has come up with some wonderfully positive solutions. I learned so much about NLD, that I highly recommend it to anyone that needs to learn more about the problems and solutions for a child with this frustrating disability.

Raising NLD Superstars

A must-read if you have a child who doesn't seem quite normal. Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD) is still not understood by many health-care and educational individuals and which, if not addressed, can have a crippling effect on your child's development. Marcia Rubinstien helps you to understand this affliction and deal with it in the everyday world around you. If your child was an early talker but seemed to start stumbling as his or her education progressed, has difficulty with fine-motor skills, fidgits a lot, takes forever on homework, can't seem to hurry or get organized, you need to consider that the cause might be NLD. Mrs. Rubinstien explains NLD in lay terms with clarity and humor, and offers solutions for both child and family.

I wish I had read this when my son was younger.

This book is incredible for parents of NLD kids. Particularly if you are not sure, this book helps to identify these kids. Early identification can save both you and the child so much heartache. It also will help you to be much more proactive for your child in the school systems. Written with a large dose of humor, the book is so accurate a large box of tissues may be in order as you revisit those situations that have been painful in the past. The book helps to validate and explain what before was a mystery. It gives practical ideas to make life with the NLD kid more enjoyable for all. And very fast reading as well.

Finally a book we can all relate to...

Finally -- a book my husband and I could relate too. There is a whole chapter designated to "hurrying" and how it is almost impossible to hurry your NLD child. This is one book that really put it all into perspective for us and one I could actually get my husband to read.

Excellent, Informative, and Fun to Read

This book is not only informative, it's also fun and easy to read. If you have a child with any sort of learning disability, you will instantly identify with the pride and exasperation Marcia Brown Rubenstien portrays, as she takes you through the neuroscience and just about every possible scenario you'll address as a parent of a child with NLD--from home to school to restaurants to medical appointments, etc etc etc. Her descriptions of the children as well as the adults they interact with are on the mark and equally informative, and the key points that end each chapter are useful and, often, priceless.