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Learning Outside The Lines: Two Ivy League Students With Learning Disabilities And Adhd Give You The Tools F by [Jonathan Mooney, Dave Cole, Edward M. Hallowell]

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Learning Outside The Lines: Two Ivy League Students With Learning Disabilities And Adhd Give You The Tools F Kindle Edition

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Learning with YOUR purpose in mind -- not your parents', not your teacher's, not your school's
Every day, your school, your teachers, and even your peers draw lines to
measure and standardize intelligence. They decide what criteria make one person smart and another person stupid. They decide who will succeed and who will just get by. Perhaps you find yourself outside the norm, because you learn differently -- but, unlike your classmates, you have no system in place that consistently supports your ability and desire to learn. Simply put, you are considered lazy and stupid. You are expected to fail.
Learning Outside the Lines is written by two such "academic failures" -- that is, two academic failures who graduated from Brown University at the top of their class. Jonathan Mooney and David Cole teach you how to take control of your education and find true success -- and they offer all the reasons why you should persevere. Witty, bold, and disarmingly honest, Learning Outside the Lines takes you on a journey toward personal empowerment and profound educational change, proving once again that rules sometimes need to be broken.

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Jonathan Mooney is a dyslexic student who did not learn to read until he was twelve years old. After attending Loyola Marymount University for one year, he transferred to Brown University, where he graduated with an honors degree in English. Mooney is also the recipient of the distinguished Truman Fellowship for graduate study in the field of learning disabilities and special education. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Provides students with plenty of tools to further each reader's personal idea of success.

-- "Amazon.com, editorial review" --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN : B0031OQ0R4
Publisher : Touchstone; 1st edition (1 July 2014)
Language : English
File size : 1259 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 288 pages

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- 153 in Special Education Textbooks
- 158 in Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities

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Dimaheux

Changed my student - professional life!!

Reviewed in Canada on 17 January 2011

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I ordered this book, along with many others, for a project I am working on with adhd students. I was suposed to skip to the pertinent parts... but I stared reading and never put it down! I too was recently diagnosed with adhd (at 28), I am a grad student and I always managed to get good enough grades...but I struggled with directives (what do you mean I have to respect a certain number of pages?), I would get lost in my subject when I wrote papers, performance anxiety to start writting, last minute adrenaline rush was the only was to concentrate... this book just spoke to me directly! I was always told I was really smart BUT... I'm the kid who shows up for a statistics exam without a calculator!! And when I was told I was going to be part of this program to help kids with adhd get organised and study more effectively (ME???) I figured there had to be a book or two out there. This book is funny, engaging, honest... and soo helpfull I think it will save my academic career!! No exageration! (Pardon my spelling, I'm french! ;)) It's filled with concrete trick and doesn't pretend to hold THE recipe for success, just here are a few thing that have worked for us, try out a few and keep what works for you! Thank you to the authers! Parents... read this book and you will understand what you child feels like when it's time to sit down and work! I know it has helped me as a student and it will help many others!

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Hermy909 II

Useful Information but Misleading Premise

Reviewed in the United States on 15 October 2015

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The premise of this book is very misleading. I’m honestly not sure how this happened. It seems that the authors are very empathetic to the needs of LD/ADHD students, yet, there is nothing in this book that will actually help those students.

Learning Outside the Lines provides information on some basic study skills which would be very useful for those students that have never learned to study. Where I went to high school most-all of these were taught to us alongside the same tactics the authors deride (“Just study harder,” etc.). These are the same sorts of things you’ll be able to find doing a simple Google search for: “How to study well” (or) “how to become a good student,” things like: learning to compartmentalize assignments for greater manageability and maximizing information retention from textbook readings. The authors do make a point of allowing readers options to “individualize” their studying and education and to ‘take what works for you, burn the rest’ but will any of this actually specifically help someone with LD/ADHD? No.

What this book does contain is solid but there’s nothing in this book that doesn’t apply equally well to non-LD/ADHD people. The personal accounts, yes. The actual information, tips and guides, no. It seems to, almost, take for granted that the reader has, somehow, overcome their disability (and past/emotional relationship to school) and is now, in college, ready to begin as if they were never LD/ADHD and merely need to learn “how” to study. There’s not one bit of information on how the ADHD students who, according to the epilogue, could hardly even stand still into their 20s, managed to actually do the reading (skimming, it seems this book so frequently advises), the outlining, the research and the classroom participation required to follow this advice in the first place. There’s hardly any explanation for how a dyslexic student who couldn’t write until junior high became an Ivy League honors English Major, and much less any sort of “process” that could help others with different disorders follow in his footsteps. It’s as if in their climbing the ladder of education, now trying to help others up, they’ve forgotten the bottom rungs exist.

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Susan Kruger, M.Ed.-SOAR Study Skills

Great Resource for ALL College Students! (Not Just for ADHD/LD)

Reviewed in the United States on 10 April 2013

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The most valuable element of this book is simply the theme of "empowerment" that is woven into every story and chapter. Jonathan and David tell their stories, in a raw and honest fashion. They point out problems with the general education system that leave struggling students to believe that THEY are the problem. Of course, Jonathan and David dispel many of these myths.

They include a pretty thorough description of effective study techniques. My only wish is that there was a "cheat sheet" summarizing a list of all of the strategies for specific learning situations. You have to weed through a lot of story-telling and description to find the strategies. Don't get me wrong, the stories and explanations are VERY important. It's just a bit challenging to find the Action Plan. Nonetheless, this is a great resource.

I found many useful tips, but I mostly appreciated the author's perspectives, often captured in interesting sound bites:

- Referring to study skills as "Power Tools"
- Explaining how to "unpack the lecture" in order to take good notes
- They are frank, but they are real: "Most study skills presented by teachers operate under the assumption that all teachers can lecture well."
- They are practical, endorsing what they call "Pragmatic personal learning."
- They emphasize efficiency: "Cover-to-cover reading is NOT the way to go..."

I am an expert in this field, and I am a big fan of this book! (By the way, it's GREAT for ALL students, not just students with ADHD/LD.)

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DaniKay

This Book Saved My Life

Reviewed in the United States on 6 May 2012

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Last December I was a college student with ADHD without hyper activity (formerly known as ADD) convinced that I would be expelled from school due to my grades. Try as I might I have never done well at school- no matter how hard I try I seem to come up short. I literally was considering the unthinkable to avoid the embarrassment of failing out of college and to end all the pain. A wonderful professor saw my struggle, sat me down and let me cry. Afterwards, she handed me this book to read over winter break. It was as if the authors had seen my life from inside my head. This book was exactly what I needed to revive me and give me the courage to face my challenges. As it turns out I didn't even need to worry about my grades but my worry had blown things out of proportion With Learning Outside the Lines in hand I came back to campus in January with a new outlook on my life.

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