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Summary: Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
Review: After 4 years of reading depressing books about what to expect from my ADHD child, finally I feel like someone has given me the key to unlocking his wonderful potential. As a homeschooling parent this book is a special blessing! The first day I read it I tried writing out the word collaborate and followed the instructions to have him visualize it. (This is a 9 year old child who is a full grade level behind in spelling) He not only spelled it, he immediately spelled it backwards without missing a letter. I cried! This book will be an immense help in choosing curriculum for him, and I would highly recommend it as a must to parents of ADD/ADHD labeled children.
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Summary: If only the whole world could understand this....
Review: First of all, THANK GOD for Jeffrey Freed.... and all others who care to look into such matter with a great level of tolerance and understanding. I borrowed this book from a library and I will definitely buy a copy. Now I know that I'm not alone. The huge problem is to convince the majority of us to understand and accept the message that this book has in store. This world has definitely been left-brained and where I come from, it's no exception. Although I have thrived on being a right-brainer my whole life, I believe that only few of us have achieved a great deal by using our "right-brain" ability to our benefit. Again, it's another form of discrimination. Even our brains are coloured. It's not about a learning disability. It's really about teaching disability. This I strongly agree.
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Summary: A relieved mom
Review: I am so relieved to finally "see the light" at the end of my child's tunnel. He'd been struggling in 1st grade, especially with any written assignment. Finishing tasks has always been a challenge for him. It always seems like he isn't listening to me or his teacher, but now I realize I just needed to change my way of "talking" to him.
Tears of relief came to me as I read this book. My relationship with my child has greatly improved, as homework is no longer a struggle.
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Summary: It changed our world
Review: I devoured this book because it revealed to me the whys of my kids (and myself): why they behave the way they do in school and at home, why they are taking interest in activities such as gymnastics and music, etc. I am recommending this book to all of my friends who have kids like ours and who are struggling in the private school setting in NYC. I thank the authors for their dedication to help right-brained people realize their potential. It's really refressing
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Summary: Good Advice, but...
Review: I found many good ideas in this book, and I'll use them while tutoring children here in Mexico, but certain of the authors' views are either self-serving or putting a brave face on what he must realize is a very bad situation. The author states in various places that right-brained children are problem-solvers whose holistic ways of looking at things will lead us into the future. Perhaps so, but what problems will they choose to solve? The author himself describes these children as hypersensitive, overly competitive, impulsive self-gratifiers with poor social skills. Now that they're with us, it's our duty to help them as best we can, but it sounds to me as though the most likely future they will lead us into (especially if they're not helped) is social disintegration.
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Summary: A Guide for all teachers.
Review: I thought my child was learning disabled. This book proved that she is merely a right-brained visual learner. She is also ADHD and gifted. I couldn't understand why she had so much trouble with phonics and spelling. I've teased her that she has a teflon brain because some things just don't stick. Every week I help her with spelling using the visual method described in the book. She often makes A's depending on how much she practices. It's the only method that works for her. I also used the shortened version of teaching her long division and it worked like a miracle. Her teacher read the book and started making comments that she could add in her head much better than some of the others. This comment and other similar ones tremendously boosted her self-esteem. I am a teacher of gifted students also. This helped me understand many of my students that I thought were borderline ADHD. One parent was certain her child was dyslexic. After screening the child for dyslexia I finally proved to her that he is just right-brained. She was a little annoyed with me for teaching him how to spell backwards because now he spells much better backwards! She must think I put a real "spell" on him! I can't thank Dr. Freed enough for finally explaining why my so called "gifted" child couldn't spell simple words. He also made the connection of gifted and ADHD that I felt existed but couldn't prove or explain. I now understand the difference between gifted, ADHD, dyslexic, and right-brained children. I would like a sequel to the book because I've referred to it for other math problems but there was none. This book should be a requirement for ALL teachers!
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS A MUST, for understanding ADD, and Dyslexia
Review: Jeffrey Freed's book was so good that I had to contact the author and thank him. His book helped me to understand how gifted some of our so-called "Learning Disabled" children really are.The part that really got my attention was his assertion that "Right-Brained people, almost without exception, make the best speed readers (see p. 119)." You see, I am a speed reading teacher. After reading his book, I took special effort to note how Right-Brain dominant children did in my speed reading classes (this was fairly easy, since he has questionaires on pages 48 to 50 that help identify Right-Brain dominance). The differences between the Right-Brained and Left-Brained children in my classes was amazing. Based on my experience, Mr. Freed is right on target. Right-Brained people really do make the best speed readers. Jeffrey Freed's discovery was so important that when I updated my own book (Speed Reading 4 Kids) in 2000, I needed to add a new chapter explaining these differences. I often recommend this book to parents of ADD, ADHD and Dyslexic children so they can understand their children's different learning needs.
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Summary: He was blind, but now he sees!
Review: My precious middle son struggled through Kindergarten, first, second and third grade before struggling through the fourth grade twice. He's now in fifth grade and struggling again - in everything except math & science. He enjoys math & science and excels in these subjects. Because he attends a loving, nuturing, Christian school, he's never been labeled ADD or ADHD or anything like that. But I've been to so many parent teacher conferences where I'm told, "he's just not getting it". We've hired a professional tutor, I've spent literally 4-6 hours a night helping him with homework and still he brings home poor grades. One day as I picked him up after school he joyfully proclaimed "Mom, I'm right brained and that pretty unusual since I'm right handed. I'm pretty special!" What magic words! I was telling a friend of mine who is going after her masters in education. She lent me this book to read. I had tears in my eyes as a read the introduction - I said that's my child, that's my child! I gave him the test with the colored circles and was amazed that he could, after looking at them only 20 seconds, tell me the sequence of the colors not only frontwards - but backwards as well. Not only that, but hours later when we were telling Dad, he still could tell the colors in sequence frontwards & backwards without another look. Not only that, the next day, he was able to correctly tell me the colors - frontwards and backwards! He said "See Mom, I can remember things!" For the first time in his life, my child is excited about reading, spelling and penmanship! I'm so grateful for the book. It should definitely be required reading for all educators and administrators in American school systems. I agree that more and more children are right brained as our world becomes more and more visual. Right brained children are the actually leading the pack, they are what will one day soon be the norm. This is an excellent book for anyone who needs or wants to be on the leading edge of education.
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Summary: THE "Must-Have" Book on ADD!
Review: My son was recently diagnosed with ADD. As I researched the topic, I found this book to be the most encouraging, informational, helpful, and applicable. Not only is it a great resource for parents, it is also wonderful for teachers or anyone who works with ADD kids. This is the only book you need!
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Summary: THE "Must-Have" Book on ADD!
Review: My son was recently diagnosed with ADD. As I researched the topic, I found this book to be the most encouraging, informational, helpful, and applicable. Not only is it a great resource for parents, it is also wonderful for teachers or anyone who works with ADD kids. This is the only book you need!
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