Different Learners

Jane Healy spent decades as an educational psychologist watching children struggle in school, and Different Learners distills that experience into a comprehensive guide for parents who are worried but don't know where to start. She covers identification, prevention, and treatment across multiple learning disorder types, grounds it in accessible neuroscience on brain development, and offers a practical home-and-school intervention program. Her argument that fast-paced modern culture and screen overload may be contributing to rising learning difficulties is increasingly well-supported. The honest caveats: some technical neuroscience sections are dense for general-reader parents, and research published since 2010 has refined some specifics. Still, for a parent watching a child struggle and needing a research-grounded map through the options, this remains one of the most comprehensive single-volume resources available.