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About the Author |
| Dr. Mel Levine is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he is responsible for conducting research and training programs in the field of developmental disabilities. He is the founder and cochair of the board of All Kinds of Minds, a nonprofit institute for the understanding of differences in learning. He also directs a series of clinical programs for the evaluation of children and young adults with problematic learning, development, and/or behavioral adjustment, and is currently conducting Schools Attuned, a national program designed to give classroom teachers and other school personnel the knowledge and skills to meet the diverse needs of all students at their schools.
Dr. Levine served for 14 years as Chief of the Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital in Boston, at which time he was Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. A Rhodes scholar and graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Levine has written numerous books for adults and children and has appeared on the Today Show and Oprah.
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Summary
Written for parents and teachers, Educational Care is based on the view that education should be a system of care that provides for the specific needs of individual students. With brief case studies as illustrations, the book identifies and describes common behaviors or phenomena that can appear in students at different ages and interfere with their learning. These include problems with attention, remembering, understanding, production, skill acquisition, and adaptation in school. Dr. Levine explains ways to help children understand their individual learning styles and offers clear descriptions of different methods of assessment and strategies to improve learning.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface to the second Edition
Chapter 1: Education as Care
Chapter 2: Phenomena Related to Weak Attention Controls
Chapter 3: Phenomena Related to Reduced Remembering
Chapter 4: Phenomena Related to Chronic Misunderstanding
Chapter 5: Phenomena Related to Deficient Output
Chapter 6: Phenomena Related to Delayed Skill Acquisition
Chapter 7: Phenomena Related to Poor Adaptation
Chapter 8: The Provision of Educational Care: Assessment and Management
Chapter 9: Implications and Applications
Appendixes
Suggested Readings
Index
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