AVAILABLE MONOGRAPHS

The Community School Professional Monograph Series features articles describing current topics involving the education, management and socialization of the learning disabled/ADD child and adolescent.

Additional monographs are added to the series periodically and are available to the public. To be added to our mailing list, please click HERE e-mail Beth BaRoss.

A summary of the monographs, which are currently available, follows:

Monograph #1
How to Design a School by Rita Rowan, Executive Director, Community School
Described is Community School's unique approach to education: a therapeutic and remedial environment combined with exposure in the classroom to a wide range of intellectual and stimulating activities.

Monograph #2
Twenty-Five Years...The Community School Program by Rita Rowan, Executive Director, Community School
Discussion of how a variety of classroom models, commitment to individualizing educational approaches and strong motivational techniques have succeeded for so many Community School students.

Monograph #3
Educating the Bright Child with Learning Disabilities by Beatrice Lieben, Ph.D., - Founder, Community School
The bright, learning disabled child is discussed along with ways in which Community School is able to teach "to the strength" of each of its students.

Monograph #4
Defining a "Therapeutic Milieu" by Rita Rowan, Executive Director, Community School
Community School's comprehensive counseling program is described, including a review of the organization and structure of the program and of how good teaching is used as a therapeutic methodology.

Monograph #5
College and the Learning Disabled Student by Toby Braunstein, Director of Education, Community High School
An in-depth look at the three components that Community High School counselors consider when guiding students through the college admission process:
1. The Criteria for Success
2. Post High School
3. Student Preparation

Monograph #6
Learning Disabilities in the Exceptionally Bright Child by Rita Rowan, Executive Director, Community School
Explores the unique profile of certain "at risk" students whose subtle learning disabilities are masked by exceptionally high intelligence.

Monograph #7
Who's afraid of the "H" Word?: Educating the Hyperactive Child by Rita Rowan, Executive Director, Community School
Provides concrete examples of how good management techniques, outside medical and clinical intervention, and insightful, skilled, caring and courageous teachers can provide ADHD children with a happy, productive school experience.

Monograph #8
It's All "Right": The Challenge of Educating the Right Brain Child by Yvette Kaufman, Teacher and Learning Consultant, Community School
Describes a common problem which many learning disabled students encounter, when as right-brained learners they are better at processing visual images and non-verbal concepts than left-brained verbal information.

Monograph #9
Language Training at Community High School: It's Never Too Late by Toby Braunstein, Director of Education, Community High School
Demonstrates how Community High School helps students cope with severe deficits in reading through the use of a solid language training program which includes a multi-sensory, phonetic reading program; instruction in word identification, spelling and writing; and the Orton Gillingham Method, which integrates reading and writing for the student with dyslexia.next page >>