Product Description

A Windy Day with Annie is an early reader. A Windy Day is fun to read, and helps promote understanding for children with Attention Deficits and Asperger's. As a counseling tool, A Windy Day provides the opportunity to discuss a child's feelings about Annie and her daydreaming. Frequently, a young reader will indicate that Annie is "bad" because she doesn't pay attention. Discussing Annie's daydreaming and inattentiveness as a "difference in her brain," instead of being "bad," can help facilitate awareness and empathy in others and self-acceptance in those of us with ADD and AS.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1450736 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 108 pages

Review
Annie Books are fun to read, provide useful information, allow for empathetic understanding, for those of you, who don't get to understand it from the inside, and those of us, who don't know, that those of you, don't understand it from the inside! We think that everyone feels this way, so we wonder what is wrong with us, and why can't we just be normal... --author's note

It's like Junie B meets attention deficit disorder! Fantastic! --Stacey Con, ESL Teacher

The Annie Books are a must read for any parent, teacher, or student with the challenges of Attention Deficit Disorders. --Janie Caton, Ed.S., School Psychologist

About the Author
Michelle is a school psychologist and medical technologist, who volunteers as a parent advocate, and provides professional development to parents and educators, regarding Individuals with Disabilites Education Act (IDEA), Improving Learning for Children with Disabilities (ILCD), Hidden Disabilites, and Response to Intervention (RTI). She is a proud veteran of the Air Force and previous school board member. Michelle has Asperger's Syndrome, Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder, and learning disabilities. She is a doctoral candidate in Education Leadership. Illustrator: Josh is a junior in high school, and is incredibly gifted in art and music. Josh has many other wonderful attributes, and he also has the joy of Asperger's Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder (he firmly believes that having one less letter in his disorder makes him LESS disabled than his mom), and learning disabilities. Josh enjoys music, very much, he enjoys LESS much, illustrating for his mother. He, however, being the dutiful son, perseveres!

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