Ms Bela Raja, a counsellor and special educator, offers insights to parents, family members and teachers on managing the many stress-filled aspects of the disability. She brings together cross-disciplinary ideas and techniques and offers pragmatic strategies for parents and teachers to help children cope with their learning problems and grow up into confident young adults. Ms Raja has beautifully brought out all the major aspects of learning difficulties and explained each of them in a clear and succinct fashion, providing strategies that can be implemented by the lay person. This extremely hands-on manual is presented in an extremely easy to read format, with large print and a lot of spacing for visual relief. Ms Bela Raja is a counsellor & special educator, who has developed resource centres and trained teaching personnel in the identification and management of children with learning difficulties. Her mission is to empower parents, thus enabling them to meet the special needs of their children.