Natural Health Natural Medicine or Its So Much Work to Be Your Friend

Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health

Author: Andrew Weil

The bible of natural medicine" (Larry Dossey, M.D.), Natural Health, Natural Medicine is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates Dr. Weil's theories of preventive health maintenance and alternative healing into one extremely useful and readable reference, featuring general diet and nutrition information as well as simple recipes, answers to readers' most pressing questions, a catalogue of home remedies, invaluable resources, and hundreds of practical tips.
This new edition includes up-to-the-minute scientific findings and has been expanded to provide trustworthy advice about low-carb diets, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, reflux disease, autism, type 2 diabetes, erectile dysfunction, the flu, and much more.

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It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success

Author: Richard Lavoi

ADHD • Anxiety • Nonverbal • Communication • Disorders • Visual/Spatial • Disorders • Executive Functioning Difficulties

As any parent, teacher, coach, or caregiver of a learning disabled child knows, every learning disability has a social component. The ADD child constantly interrupts and doesn't follow directions. The child with visual-spatial issues loses his belongings. The child with a nonverbal communication disorder fails to gesture when she talks. These children are socially out of step with their peers, and often they are ridiculed or ostracized for their differences. A successful social life is immeasurably important to a child's happiness, health, and development, but until now, no book has provided practical, expert advice on helping learning disabled children achieve social success.

For more than thirty years, Richard Lavoie has lived with and taught learning disabled children. His bestselling videos and sellout lectures and workshops have made him one of the most respected experts in the field. Rick's pioneering techniques and practical strategies can help children ages six to seventeen

• Overcome shyness and low self-esteem
• Use appropriate body language to convey emotion
• Focus attention and avoid disruptive behavior
• Enjoy playdates and making friends
• Employ strategies for counteracting bullying and harassment
• Master the Hidden Curriculum and polish the apple with teachers

It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend answers the most intense need of parents, teachers, and caregivers of learning disabled children -- or anyone whoknows a child who needs a friend.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Getting in Good Dr. Mel Levine Preface Rob and Michele Reiner Introduction: "The Other Sixteen Hours"

Part One: Why Do They Do the Things They Do? The Impact of Learning Disorders on the Development of Social Skills

One: Children with Learning Disorders Are Wired Differently: It's All in Their Heads

Two: Anxiety: A Cause and Consequence of Social Isolation

Three: Language Difficulties: Getting and Giving the Message

Four: Paralinguistics: Words Carry the Message, Body Language Carries the Emotion

Five: Attention Deficit Disorder: The Social Lives of the Unhappy Wanderers

Part Two: Social Skills on the Homefront: Dealing with Parents, Siblings, and Other Strangers

Six: Enhancing Organizational Skills: Bringing Order and Structure to the Disorganized Child

Seven: Siblings and Other Strangers

Eight: Playdates: The Social Coin of the Realm

Part: Three Social Skills at School: Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and Relationships

Nine: Bullies, Victims, and Spectators: Strategies to Prevent Teasing, Intimidation, and Harassment in School

Ten: Mastering the Hidden Curriculum of School: The Unwritten, Unspoken Rules

Eleven: Teacher-Pleasing Behaviors: Polishing the Apple

Part Four: Social Skills in the Community: No Kid Is an Island

Twelve: Appropriate Social Skills in Public Places

Thirteen: Meeting, Making, and Keeping Friends

Conclusion Appendix Index