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Other Reviews
"CREATIVE BRAINS: Gifted, Talented, Dyslexic" produced by the Southwest Branch of the International Dyslexia Association.
Reviewed by Dorothy Ungerleider
Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults by James T. Webb, Ph.D., Edward R. Amend, Psy.D., Nadia Webb, Psy.D., Jean Goerss, M.D., M.P.H., Paul Beljan, Psy.D., and F. Richard Olenchak, Ph.D., reviewed by Sandra Mosk, M.Ed., BCET, FAET
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon reviewed by Jeri I. Burzin, M.Ed.
When the Brain Can’t Hear: Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder by Teri James Bellis, Ph.D., reviewed by Susan Grama
Understanding Women with AD/HD edited by Kathleen G. Nadeau, PhD, and Patricia O. Quinn, M.D., reviewed by Cynthia Landes
Different Minds, Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits by Deirdre V. Lovecky, and Jessica Kingsley, reviewed by Vicki Zale Berghoff
The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood’s Most Misunderstood Disorder by Papolos Demitri, M.D., and Janice Papolos, reviewed by Pamela McGranahan, Ed.D.
DVD REVIEW: "CREATIVE BRAINS: Gifted, Talented, Dyslexic"
"CREATIVE BRAINS: Gifted, Talented, Dyslexic" produced by the Southwest Branch of the International Dyslexia Association.
Reviewed by Dorothy Ungerleider
The Southwest Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) has created a DVD that at last allows us to hear FROM those creative dyslexic adults rather than just ABOUT them. Told in their own words, the ten stories have a unique impact because we see their pain and passion at the same time that we can view, graphically, what they have produced, created, and become. The viewer can not only see their accomplishments but hear of the paths that took them there. And like so many of the students that we work with daily, the lesson of uniqueness, of "no two stories and no two solutions the same" is there in living color. The film was produced by one of AET's own members, Lois Rothschild, and I can't help but think that her educational therapy training and vision influenced the direction and message of this film.
This film is important for educational therapists. At last, we have a vehicle for showing, not just telling, our clients what is possible for them. They can see and hear from "fellow sufferers" how pain and discouragement was replaced by accomplishment for the film's subjects:
- The architect's father didn't believe he'd amount to anything-but his temperament told him to prove his father wrong. You'll be awed by the way he finally did that, including work on stabilizing the Leaning Tower of Pisa!
- The CEO of a corporate real estate firm in New York tells us all the ways dyslexia is a perfect asset for business, and the totally original way she tells it, you'll be convinced. She tearfully acknowledges the one teacher who "actually saw beauty in a story I wrote."
- The world-renowned sculptor, a stammerer as a youth, learned to keep his mouth shut, even when he joined the Marines, but the consequences of that compensation brought a different kind of anguish. Like so many we see, he never learned that dyslexia was his problem until he was an adult.
- The others are: a trial lawyer who testifies to the outcomes of beyond-hard work, a corporate identity executive who designed the containers for Pepsi, Hi Ho Crackers, and Chef Boyardee spaghetti, an award-winning chef who explained the impact of his training at Gow School, a native American who became a fashion designer by reacting to her social studies book that called Indians "savages", two equestriennes who channeled their problem into horsemanship, and the author of In the Mind's Eye and Thinking Like Einstein.
For more information, go to the Southwest IDA web site (www.southwestida.com).
Dorothy Ungerleider, M.A., BCET, FAET, is the founding president of AET. Among her many accomplishments, she is the author of two books, Reading, Writing, and Rage and Psychoeducational Perspectives. She conducts a private educational therapy practice in Encino, California.