Jane M. Healy's Books

Different Learners

Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child's Learning Problems

By: Jane M. Healy

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Different Learners

Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child's Learning Problems

By: Jane M. Healy

Explains a range of learning disorders, including ADHD, dyslexia, and Asperger's syndrome, and examines ways of identifying problems early and taking appropriate remedial action at home, at school, and in the community.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416556427

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9781416556428

Endangered Minds

Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

By: Jane M. Healy

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Endangered Minds

Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

By: Jane M. Healy

Is today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains? In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular culture compromise our children's ability to concentrate and to absorb and analyze information. Drawing on neuropsychological research and an analysis of current educational practices, Healy presents in clear, understandable language: -- How growing brains are physically shaped by experience -- Why television programs -- even supposedly educational shows like Sesame Street -- develop "habits of mind" that place children at a disadvantage in school -- Why increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder -- How parents and teachers can make a critical difference by making children good learners from the day they are born

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Simon and Schuster

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1439126704

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Different Learners

Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child's Learning Problems

By: Jane M. Healy

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Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child's Learning Problems

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Failure to Connect

How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds--For Better and Worse

By: Jane M. Healy

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Failure to Connect

How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds--For Better and Worse

By: Jane M. Healy

In this comprehensive, practical, and unsettling look at computers in children's lives, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., questions whether computers are really helping or harming children's development. Once a bedazzled enthusiast of educational computing but now a troubled skeptic, Dr. Healy examines the advantages and drawbacks of computer use for kids at home and school, exploring its effects on children's health, creativity, brain development, and social and emotional growth. Today, the Federal Government allocates scarce educational funding to wire every classroom to the Internet, software companies churn out "educational" computer programs even for preschoolers, and school administrators cut funding and space for books, the arts, and physical education to make room for new computer hardware. It is past the time to address these issues. Many parents and even some educators have been sold on the idea that computer literacy is as important as reading and math. Those who haven't hopped on the techno bandwagon are left wondering whether they are shortchanging their children's education or their students' futures. Few people stop to consider that computers, used incorrectly, may do far more harm than good. New technologies can be valuable educational tools when used in age-appropriate ways by properly trained teachers. But too often schools budget insufficiently for teacher training and technical support. Likewise, studies suggest that few parents know how to properly assist children's computer learning; much computer time at home may be wasted time, drawing children away from other developmentally important activities such as reading, hobbies, or creative play. Moreover, Dr. Healy finds that much so-called learning software is more "edutainment" than educational, teaching students more about impulsively pointing and clicking for some trivial goal than about how to think, to communicate, to imagine, or to solve problems. Some software, used without careful supervision, may also have the potential to interrupt a child's internal motivation to learn. Failure to Connect is the first book to link children's technology use to important new findings about stages of child development and brain maturation, which are clearly explained throughout. It illustrates, through dozens of concrete examples and guidelines, how computers can be used successfully with children of different age groups as supplements to classroom curricula, as research tools, or in family projects. Dr. Healy issues strong warnings, however, against too early computer use, recommending little or no exposure before age seven, when the brain is primed to take on more abstract challenges. She also lists resources for reliable reviews of child-oriented software, suggests questions parents should ask when their children are using computers in school, and discusses when and how to manage computer use at home. Finally, she offers a thoughtful look at the question of which skills today's children will really need for success in a technological future -- and how they may best acquire them. Based on years of research into learning and hundreds of hours of interviews and observations with school administrators, teachers, parents, and students, Failure to Connect is a timely and eye-opening examination of the central questions we must confront as technology increasingly influences the way we educate our children.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684865203

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9780684865201

Is Your Bed Still There when You Close the Door?

And Other Playful Ponderings : how to Have Intelligent and Creative Conversations with Your Kids

By: Jane M. Healy

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Is Your Bed Still There when You Close the Door?

And Other Playful Ponderings : how to Have Intelligent and Creative Conversations with Your Kids

By: Jane M. Healy

As engaging and entertaining as it is practical and stimulating, this book offers a fun and easy way to inspire creativity, build thinking skills, and establish effective and meaningful communication - "intelligent conversations"--Between adults and children.

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Doubleday Books

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0385417624

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9780385417624

Failure to Connect

How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds--For Better and Worse

By: Jane M. Healy

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How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds--For Better and Worse

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Simon and Schuster

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Your Child's Growing Mind

Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence

By: Jane Healy

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Your Child's Growing Mind

Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence

By: Jane Healy

The completely updated and expanded version of the 1987 classic hailed by parents and educators everywhere.

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Harmony

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0307788946

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Your Child's Growing Mind

Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence

By: Jane Healy

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Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence

By: Jane Healy

The completely updated and expanded version of the 1987 classic hailed by parents and educators everywhere.

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Harmony

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Enhancing Social Work Management

Theory and Best Practice from the UK and USA

By: Jane Aldgate

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Enhancing Social Work Management

Theory and Best Practice from the UK and USA

By: Jane Aldgate

This book looks at the nature of management in the human services sector and examines the prevailing issues affecting both the UK and USA. In this book, contributors present both the problems and opportunities associated with the growth of management in the social care sector. This will be essential reading for social workers.

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322

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843105152

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9781843105152

LB

The Little Brown Handbook

By: Jane E. Aaron

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The Little Brown Handbook

By: Jane E. Aaron

Concise and easy to use,LB Brief is the writing handbook that helps writers find what they need and then use what they find. Writing process, business writing, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, electronic research, documentation/citation style guides, avoiding plagiarism, ESL. Any student or professional interested in improving their writing.

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Addison-Wesley Longman

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0321207815

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9780321207814

Choosing Effective Support for People on the Autism Spectrum

A Guide Based on Academic Perspectives and Lived Experience

By: Matthew Bennett,Emma Goodall,Jane Nugent

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Choosing Effective Support for People on the Autism Spectrum

A Guide Based on Academic Perspectives and Lived Experience

By: Matthew Bennett,Emma Goodall,Jane Nugent

This book is essential for anyone interested in learning about the therapeutic potential of orthodox and state-of-the-art supports for autistics. Using research evidence, supports are rated using a Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Tin category system. ‘Gold’ is extremely promising and use with confidence, whereas ‘Tin’ is extremely unsafe and potentially life threatening. This book, however, is more complex than just presenting literature reviews about supports for autistics and then rating the efficacy of the support. In addition to this, the insights and experiences of autistics about the autism supports examined are presented. Such testimonials provide an insider perspective from those who ultimately stand to benefit or suffer after receiving a support – namely autistics themselves.

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Routledge

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1000297713

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9781000297713

Parents on Board Parent's Guide

Helping Your Child Succeed in School (A Guide for Parents of 4 to 14 Year Olds)

By: Michael H. Popkin,Bettie B. Youngs,Jane M. Healy

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Parents on Board Parent's Guide

Helping Your Child Succeed in School (A Guide for Parents of 4 to 14 Year Olds)

By: Michael H. Popkin,Bettie B. Youngs,Jane M. Healy

Supportive and creative ways to help your child learn.

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1880283158

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9781880283158

Endangered Minds

Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

By: Jane M. Healy

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Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I

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Book's by Jane M. Healy

Different Learners

Different Learners

Endangered Minds

Endangered Minds

Different Learners

Different Learners

Failure to Connect

Failure to Connect

Is Your Bed Still There when You Close the Door?

Is Your Bed Still There when You Close the Door?

Failure to Connect

Failure to Connect

Your Child's Growing Mind

Your Child's Growing Mind

Your Child's Growing Mind

Your Child's Growing Mind

Enhancing Social Work Management

Enhancing Social Work Management

LB

LB

Choosing Effective Support for People on the Autism Spectrum

Choosing Effective Support for People on the Autism Spectrum

Parents on Board Parent's Guide

Parents on Board Parent's Guide

Endangered Minds

Endangered Minds

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