A Mind at a Time

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"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, many children struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the way they are being taught.

In his #1 New York Times bestseller A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and those who care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns, explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure.

Consistent progress can result when we understand that not every child can do equally well in every type of learning and begin to pay more attention to individual learning patterns -- and individual minds -- so that we can maximize children's success and gratification in life. In A Mind at a Time Dr. Levine shows us how.

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This is a wonderful book that emphasizes the need to look at the individual needs of students.

A "new" copy retailed for $ 15 @ BORDERS by The Water Tower on Michigan Avenue in Chicago but was out of stock there. Ourselves & our dear children & friends. LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS had it "used" in stock for $ 1. I bought it for my partner in these tasks. I may have more to say after I read A MIND IN TIME. Because MEL LEVINE's work on the 8 neurodevelopmental mind systems seems to put an important focus on a vital view. There is much we can do NOW to make our lives & our children's lives much happier & healthier.

Because it appears he's also worked up some practical strategies.From my experience & study I do believe that we ARE what we think, among other considerations. I will read it next. So HOW do we think, how do we LEARN to think, how do we THINK about all this. HAPPY VALLEY.

A MIND IN TIME came highly recommended for people like (all of) us who face certain uncertain challenges. Let us ALL be encouraged, with good reason. Even knowing that this is very difficult work & that we sometimes (often) do NOT get the results we may want or need & in fact suffer immensely. I expect it will be a very valuable read.We got A MIND IN TIME from LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS, an excellent AMAZON partner. LONDON & all who labor in these fields. LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS is an unusually effective & highly economical resource for booklovers. She read it & found it very helpful. LIGHTHOUSE BOOKS's copy was in even better condition than described.

There is much we can learn.A salute to MR. A million thumbs up to all who struggle here. Just as good as "new." Shipping was several days quicker than promised or expected. That's where they live.

Book is in good, promised condition. My only complaint is that it got here later than I thought it would.

I've read the professional reviews and they are interesting, but as a parent they are glossy and shiny but don't ring with the truth I found in this book. And in all honesty, some teachers should not be teachers. I am my child's best advocate. Because finally someone understood just what my child FELT. Having a child with "special needs" has no easy cure and will always be a source of anxiety for me. I was also enraged because here was a learned professional espousing what I always knew in my heart to be true but the education system in our rural community was so hopelessly out of date, change of this scope is decades if not centuries away. The first time I read a Mel Levine book I cried. With luck and perseverence, I MAY be able to influence my child's teachers, but I can not change this system in his lifetime.What I can do, is change how I talk to my child, how I reinforce their learning in the home, and more importantly how I talk to him about his frustrations in his classroom.

But, what this book did give me was a new vocabulary. It opened my eyes to the fact that many teachers are rigid and many simply do not have the resources in the existing structure of the school system to meet the needs of, not only my child, but as many as half the children in their classroom. After reading this book, I was better armed with tools and ideas for addressing my child's educational needs, and my informed input was better received by his educators. But Mel Levine's books (I've read four of them) help arm me for the on-going fight for his rights as a student.

He has spent a great deal of time working with experts in many disciplines in order to understand how children learn and how to help them if they are struggling.He has broken learning into several areas of input, processing, storage, retrieval and output. Dr. Mel Levine has worked for a long time with children so that they could grow up feeling responsible, successful and with good self esteem. Parents and educators can use this information to understand where a child may be having problems and then use ideas from his book to help turn things around for the child/student.What the book does let us know is that learning is not easy but more like rocket science, in that it is a combination of innate abilities and deficits of the child, and the abilities of the adults to work with the abilities and help remediate the deficits through a combination of interventions and accommodations. There is also no quick turn around, since the educational demands change over time with new areas of difficulty recognized with the increased demands.