Books for Learning Challenges
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A Real Boy
USD $17.50 Add to cartA Real Boy is a powerfully inspiring story, made all the more so, in my opinion, by the fact that so much that Christina Adams id for her son echoes so much of what Waldorf education has been (read more)
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A Thought Is Just a Thought — TEMP
USD $10.00 Read morePowerfully illustrated, A Thought Is Just a Thought is the compelling and sympathetic story of Jenny, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It describes Jenny’s visits with her mother to a doctor. He notices that Jenny is (read more)
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An A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales
USD $28.00 Read moreGoodness, I sure wish I had had this book when my children were small! As a young Waldorf Mom, I wanted to know how to help my son learn to be more patient or more grateful. I heard about "healing (read more)
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Charlotte and the Quiet Place
USD $16.95 Add to cartCharlotte likes quiet. But wherever Charlotte goes, she is surrounded by noise, noise, noise— her yipping dog, Otto; the squeaky, creaky swings; the warbling, wailing sirens. Even in the library, children yammer and yell. Where can Charlotte find a quiet (read more)
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Madeline Finn and the Library Dog: Hardcover
USD $17.95 Add to cartMadeline Finn DOES NOT like to read. Not books. Not magazines. Not even the menu on the ice cream truck. But Madeline Finn DOES want a gold star from her teacher. Stars are for good readers. Stars are for understanding (read more)
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Think Fast: The ADD Experience
USD $12.95 Add to cartPresents a selection of writings, dialogues, anecdotes, experiences, and personal advice on Attention Deficit Disorder that address such topics as medication and therapeutic options, the problems of women and children with ADD, and more.
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Being Human
USD $18.95 Add to cartKarl König's point of view is that "disabilities" are exaggerated forms of ways we all use to cope with life. He presents the outline of a comprehensive child anthropology for diagnosis in the areas of motor disturbances, sensory disturbances, (read more)
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Children with Special Needs
USD $14.95 Add to cartThis is the best "first book" on curative education we have seen, and we are genuinely glad to be able to offer it to you. This is a concise and fully illustrated introduction to Rudolf Steiner's ideas on the education (read more)
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Come Unto These Yellow Sands
USD $27.95 Add to cartThis book is one of those real gems that was available when my own children were young (I still have my well-worn copy), then went out of print and now is available again. I feel enormous gratitude to the publisher (read more)
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Dyslexia: Learning Disorder or Creative Gift?
USD $30.00 Add to cartPeople with dyslexia struggle with standard methods of learning to read and write, which are not tailored to their multi-dimensional, visual ways of thinking. However, these same people are often highly imaginative, intuitive and creative. I especially like that (read more)
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Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour
USD $30.00 Add to cartSusan Perrow has developed the art of pedagogical stories to a luminescent degree. In her beautiful book she offers dozens of stories, some her own, some traditional and retold by her. Each story carries with it the seed of healing (read more)
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Inside an Autistic World
USD $24.00 Add to cartMany individuals with autism are highly intelligent and gifted, but some are effectively imprisoned in their bodies and unable to communicate verbally. However, developments in technology have enabled autistic people to transmit their thoughts directly. In this true account, three (read more)
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Knots on a Counting Rope
USD $7.99 Add to cartIt has been hard for me to find books about children with disabilities that fit into the Waldorf curriculum. So imagine my joy upon finding this one that is written in such a beautiful way and can be used in (read more)
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Learning Difficulties
USD $23.95 Add to cartA wonderful book and one for which I have been hoping for many, many years. Learning Difficulties gathers together nearly 300 pages of the best insights, deepest experiences and most successful approaches to learning difficulties by over 30 teachers expert (read more)
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Left Hand Writing Skills Book 1
USD $12.95 Add to cartGiven that only 10% of the population is left-handed, it comes as no secret or surprise that we as teachers and parents are often unprepared for the task of teaching a left-handed child how to write in a way that (read more)
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Left Hand Writing Skills Book 2
USD $12.95 Read moreIn Book 2, Pencil Pete and his gang take the left-handed child through a further series of essential exercises - all designed to give them the best possible start in learning to write. This second book focuses on the flow of (read more)
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Helping Children on Their Way
USD $55.00 Read moreTeachers and parents know that each child is a tiny miracle, a complex puzzle needing to be solved. This book is packed with insights from experienced teachers in Waldorf schools describing methods that a teacher can employ to help an (read more)
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Steiner Education and Social Issues
USD $24.00 Add to cartIs the philosophy we use to educate our children responsible, at least partially, for the attitudes and general tone of our societies. A recent UNICEF report on wealthy countries saw the United States and the United Kingdom ranked lowest in (read more)
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Take Time
USD $29.95 Add to cartTo my mind no therapist or remedial teacher should be without this edition by their side. ( Dr. Béve Hornsby PhD, MSc, MEd, MSCT Consultant Speech Therapist and Clinical Psychologist From the Foreword )
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The Extra Lesson
USD $33.50 Add to cartAudrey McAllen's treasured resource has been revised and expanded -- the result is a work of depth and insight which is even more practical and valuable than before. This edition of The Extra Lesson gives careful and (read more)
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The Gift of Dyslexia
USD $16.95 Add to cartLike other dyslexics, Ronald Davis was gifted with an unusual talent for creativity and imagination . . . yet, he grew up wondering why he couldn't function right in school, where teachers labeled him "retarded." After numerous failures and setbacks, he eventually became (read more)
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The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Revised Edition
USD $17.00 Read moreThe author who has written one of the best-loved and genuinely helpful books for parents whose children have sensory processing disorder (The Out-of-Sync Child) has followed it up with this companion volume, which (read more)
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Thinking in Pictures
USD $16.95 Add to cartPrepare for an incredible journey into the workings of the human mind - both normal and abnormal. Temple Grandin, a Ph.D. animal researcher who is also autistic, has gifted us all with an intimate "insiders account" of autism. You (read more)