cover image The Mislabeled Child: How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success

The Mislabeled Child: How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success

Brock Eide, Fernette Eide, . . Hyperion, $24.95 (510pp) ISBN 978-1-4013-0225-2

This husband-and-wife team (both doctors run the Eide Neurolearning Clinic in Edmonds, Wash.) offer this informative but clinical aid to labeling and dealing with various "brain-based learning challenges." Each of the 11 chapters focuses on "a single type of learning system and the challenges that affect it"—"Overlooking the Obvious: Visual Problems in Children"; "Getting It All Together: Attention Problems in Children"; "Making the Right Connections: Autism and Autism-like Disorders." After discussing the brain processes that underlie each learning system, the Eides offer steps that can be taken to help children whose processes fall into each category. In-depth case histories might have put a human face on a book that is supposed to be aimed at parents and teachers as well as educated child-care professionals, but as it stands, the college –textbook–like tone renders it most suitable as a solid reference tool. (Aug.)