Learning Disabilities: Understanding the Problem and Managing the Challenges by Etta K. Brown

The diagnosis of learning disabilities in the United States is growing at the alarming rate of 10 to 20 percent every ten years. Veteran school psychologist Etta K. Brown responds to this trend by defining the term “learning disabilities” from an educational standpoint, and offers suggestions to prevent your child’s diagnosis from hampering his or her growth. She identifies barriers to learning that may be present in your child’s environment, and indicates how to remove them to provide your child with an atmosphere in which he or she will thrive.

This helpful reference book identifies “problem” behaviors exhibited by the child; how to accommodate them in the classroom; and what can be done at home to help.

Included are summaries of special education laws; the power granted to parents by those laws; how to use them to ensure that your child receives an appropriate education; and much, much more. Learning Disabilities: Understanding the Problem and Managing the Challenges offers strategies and solutions that will make an immediate difference in the lives of children in the 21st century.

About the Author

Etta Brown received her undergraduate degree from the Ohio State University with a major in Dental Hygiene Education and the Masters in Education degree from South Carolina State University with a major in Special Education. The Educational Specialist Degree was conferred at Kent State University with studies in School Administration, and a major in School Psychology.

Through her graduate programs, and internships, the author acquired skills with speech and language, visual-motor training, auditory training, and the teaching of reading and handwriting.

During twenty years of professional experience in the public schools in Ohio, Iowa and California she has worked as a special education teacher, a school social worker and as a school psychologist. At no time, in either of those positions was she able to use any of her knowledge to help children to learn.

Instead, while she didn't always agree, much was learned about what not to tell parents about their children. She also learned how school systems function, why they function the way that they do, why there were some things that it was not in the best interest of the school district for parents to know and why they should not be told.

Those were long, frustrating years watching children being placed in Special education because that was all that the School District had to offer. On the other hand were the frustrated parents who agonized over what to do about their child’s learning problems and the stigma of being placed in Special Education.

Having recently retired from public education and started a practice as a Licensed Educational Psychologist, the author is now free to discuss Special education and share information believed to be in the best interest of parents without being unprofessional or disloyal to employers.
She continues to reach out to parents and children through her writing. Her current book is a summary of all that she would have told parents during her career had she been permitted to do so.

Etta K. Brown
Licensed Educational Psychologist #2407
State of California

Title: Learning Disabilities: Understanding the Problem and Managing the Challenges

by Etta K. Brown

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