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A special education : one family's journey through the maze of learning disabilities

Title
A special education : one family's journey through the maze of learning disabilities / Dana Buchman with Charlotte Farber.
Author
Buchman, Dana.
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press Lifelong, 2006.

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Additional Authors
Farber, Charlotte.
Description
xii, 196 pages; 22 cm
Summary
A personal memoir by a well-known fashion designer discusses her daughter's serious learning difficulties and how her marriage, professional career, and family life were changed as a result of her efforts to help her child.
Subject
  • Buchman, Dana
  • Farber, Charlotte
  • Parents of children with disabilities > United States > Biography
  • Learning disabled children > United States > Biography
  • Mothers and daughters > United States > Case studies
  • Learning disabilities
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Learning disabled children
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Parents of children with disabilities
  • Eltern
  • Lernbehinderung
  • Schüler
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies.
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 196).
Contents
Introduction -- The wonder year -- At first you crawl -- Testing, testing -- School daze -- Race for a cure -- Nature and nurture -- It's a family affair -- Stop the insanity -- Teen scene -- A different kind of gifted -- Afterword: Charlotte in her own words.
ISBN
  • 0738210331
  • 9780738210339
LCCN
  • 2005035779
  • 9780738210339
OCLC
  • ocm62679806
  • 62679806
  • SCSB-1382507
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library