Turnabout Children: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities

Mary MacCracken

New American Library, 1987 - Education - 252 pages

Gifted writer and therapist Mary MacCracken offers a heartwarming chronicle of her private practice with learning-disabled children. A professor of learning disabilities calls it, "A classic"... and must reading for anyone who has a child with dyslexia or other disorders. The book won the l986 AmericanHealth Book Award.

Contents

• Meeting Myself: 11
• Joey: 22
• Eric: 59

About the author

Mary MacCracken was born Mary Burnham on June 6, 1926 in Englewood, New Jersey. She attended Wellesley College from 1943 to 1945 but left to get married. She entered the special education field in the late 1960s as a once-a-week volunteer at a private school in New Jersey. She volunteered for about seven years. During that time she received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree with a focus on learning disabilities from what is now William Paterson University. She had a private practice diagnosing and treating children with learning disabilities until she was in her 70s. She wrote several books during her lifetime including A Circle of Children, Lovey: A Very Special Child, City Kid, and Turnabout Children: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities. Two of her books, A Circle of Children and Lovey, were made into television movies. She died from complications of melanoma on July 23, 2014 at the age of 88.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Turnabout Children: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities; Volume 4877 of Signet book
• Author: Mary MacCracken
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: New American Library, 1987
• Original from: Pennsylvania State University
• Digitized: Oct 8, 2011
• ISBN: 0451148770, 9780451148773
• Length: 252 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Education / Special Education / General; Education / Special Education / Learning Disabilities; Medical / Audiology & Speech Pathology