Rhoda Woods Cummings

This nonfiction guide for teens with learning differences covers everything from self-advocacy, finding and keeping a job, making and keeping friends, dating and personal growth, and living a healthy life style, to being a good citizen, setting career goals, and deciding whether or not to be sexually active. With short, easy to read sentences and excellent summaries at the end of each chapter, this book can have a positive effect on teens. In schools, it would be useful for counselors, special education teachers and non-special education teachers, and students and their parents to read so that they all have a better understanding of what it is like to learn differently in a fast paced society.… (meer)