Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: A Common-Sense Guide for Parents and Professionals

by Maggie Mamen

Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disabilities By Maggie Mamen

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2007

Reviews

[Manybooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

For me, the most usable part of Maggie Mamen’s Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: A Common-Sense Guide for Parents and Professionals has been her detailed and also with a total “aha” moment for me division of NLD into four main subtypes (perceptual, social, written/expressive and attentional). For most if not all of the other books I have read on nonverbal learning issues usually just lump the above groups together as one single all encompassing unit, and I thus often have come away from my reading experiences with a distinct feeling of perhaps only being very partially NLD at best (which Maggie Mamen with her NLD sub-genres has shown not to at all be the case, that I indeed am afflicted with non verbal learning issues, but that my problems are almost entirely perceptual and spatial and perhaps just a tiny bit social).

And while the remainder of Understanding Verbal Learning Disabilities: A Common-Sense Guide for Parents and Professionals also presents necessary and important details on how to manage NLD especially with regard to affected students and how to make their educational experiences less frustrating and more successful (with Maggie Mamen also appreciatively pointing out that many of her suggestions could and perhaps even should equally be used to make especially primary education less unorganized and more back to the so-called basics), for me, the author’s how-to suggestions, while interesting and always reasonable have equally not felt in any way as being something all that novel, whereas Maggie Mamen’s detailed descriptions of NLD as being divided into specific groups have not only been something that I have not previously read in tomes on nonverbal learning disabilities, but this has also truly made me personally understand that my own NLD is mostly of one particular type and that not having the other sub-genres still and definitely makes my perception and spatial issues a nonverbal learning disability.

Four stars for Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: A Common-Sense Guide for Parents and Professionals, and yes, the only reason why I am not ranking this book with five stars is that personally, I have found Maggie Mamen’s detailed bibliography just a trifle too academic and psychological research oriented, that in my opinion and in addition, there should also be books on nonverbal learning disabilities included that have been penned either by the parents of NLD children or by NLD afflicted individuals themselves.

[Montgomery Webster · Rating 1 out of 5]

Took very little away from this book, which is apparently about children with Nonverbal Learning Disorder. Not at all recommended for adults looking for more information.
The only thing that I learned from it was how it framed disorders in relation to one another. For example, a child's struggle with NLD can cause Depresssion, Anxiety, &c. Very interesting...