Different learners: identifying, preventing, and treating your child's learning problems

Foreword and Acknowledgments

Part 1. Brain Crisis: Problems and Possibilities

1. Too Many Dyssed Kids

2. What's the Problem? Diagnostic Dilemmas

3. What Should We Call This? Understanding Learning Disorders

Part 2. Your Unique Child

4. Brain Differences and Learning Differences

5. Rewiring Children's Brains: How the Brain Builds Itself and How We Can Help

6. How Your Child's Brain Works: "Brain Juice," Emotion, Motivation, Attention, and Medicating Children's Minds

7. Genes, Learning, and the Environment: Biology Isn't Always Destiny

8. Who's Intelligent?: Learning Styles and One-of-a-Kind Brains

Part 3. Childhood in the Twenty-first Century: Pathway to Problems or Gateway to Success?

9. Stress: The Great Dys-abler

10. Brain-Cleaning 101: Banish Brain Disruptors

11. Brain-Cleaning 102: Tackling Lifestyle Factors

12. Successful Environments for Successful Children

Appendix A. Terms of Dysfunction: Learning Problems, Seen and Unseen

Appendix B. A Few Thoughts About When to Worry

Appendix C. A Primer on Getting Professional Help for Your Child

Appendix D. Reference List

Notes

Bibliography

Index