Comments on: 35 Best Children’s Books About Learning Disabilities

By: Melissa Taylor

Melissa Taylor — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:31:36 +0000

In reply to Leah M.. I'm so happy to hear this, Leah. Thanks for telling me. :)

By: Leah M.

Leah M. — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 22:25:34 +0000

Your blog has been a tremendous help for finding high quality books for my third graders. We used your recommendation, “Junkyard Wonders” by Patricia Polocco, to learn about learning differences and character traits. Thank you!

By: Melissa Taylor

Melissa Taylor — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:55:09 +0000

In reply to Sara.

yes — https://imaginationsoup.net/books-kids-characters-autism-spectrum/ for kids on the spectrum. There aren’t enough books about SPD yet but I am looking forward to a new book by Jamie Sumner called Tune It Out, out in September. I haven’t read it but I know the author and predict that the novel will be accurate and amazing.

By: Melissa Taylor

Melissa Taylor — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:52:12 +0000

In reply to Janet McLaughlin. Thank you for sharing about your novel, Janet.

By: Melissa Taylor

Melissa Taylor — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:51:50 +0000

In reply to Annabel Bowcher. thank you so much for sharing!

By: Annabel Bowcher

Annabel Bowcher — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 23:33:42 +0000

Hi Melissa,
Thank you so much for this list. I will definitely be sharing it to our Bacalen Books: The Story Weavers social media pages! I am a science communicator and mother of two children who have a learning difference known as perceptual dyslexia. My husband also has it and has managed the symptoms for more than 20 years with his specially tinted lenses. The Story Weavers of Bacalen is a middle grade book series co-authored and published with my two junior authors. This adventure series focuses on six children from across the world who need to keep their glasses on to save the world and its people. Our learning difference heroes have special gifts which enable them to speak to books, ride book return chutes around the world and complete a dangerous quest – to find six ancient story-threads that have been stolen from a star hidden deep within Earth. If their quest fails, then this story will be the last one the world will ever know!
During this time of Covid uncertainty each week we have been uploading a chapter of the first adventure. We hope that it will empower and support readers with learning differences and foster tolerance and acceptance in all readers.
Visit http://www.bacalenbooks.com.au/miss-paiges-resources to ride the book return chutes with our learning difference adventurers! There are codes and puzzles to solve in the stories and hints found in the teaching resources page.
Welcome to Bacalen (an anagram of balance – something we need a bit more in our lives at the moment!).

By: Melissa Taylor

Melissa Taylor — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:29:19 +0000

In reply to Janet McLaughlin.

Janet,
Ooooh, I’m so excited to read this book. Yes, please! Can you email me– melissa@imaginationsoup.net. xo

By: Janet McLaughlin

Janet McLaughlin — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:07:19 +0000

My MG novel, DIFFERENT, is about a young girl with Tourette Syndrome. This neurological disorder is vastly misunderstood. Most people, thanks to TV and movies, thinks it’s yelling out curse words at inappropriate times. That’s does happen, but it’s a small percentage of those dealing with TS. There are both physical and emotional/neurological conditions associated with TS, and it most definitely effects learning. The physical tics can cause a child to consistently lose their place while reading, doing math, or taking tests. The other conditions, such as OCD, can add hours to homework if the child feels the need to hand in a perfect paper, or get a zero in the test because the child is stuck on writing his or her name. That’s just a little of what goes on in the life of a child with TS. I would be happy to send you a copy of my novel if you would like to review it. You can read more about it on https://www.amazon.com/Different-Janet-McLaughlin/dp/0999577328/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Different+by+Janet+McLaughlin&qid=1566651876&s=books&sr=1-1 Thank you for shedding light on these difficult disorders.