Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up: Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World 1st Edition

Great book and very informative about kids with processing issues. Highly recommend!

Good book for parents learning about their child’s potential learning deficiency. It walks you through the causes, common symptoms, how to seek assessment and then steps after diagnosis. I particularly enjoyed the chapter looking introspectively at my own leaning challenges as a child.

My 8 year old daughter has trouble focusing, moves at the pace of a very slow snail, and struggles with her homework. We had her evaluated for possible ADD (and other disorders), and her test results came back "normal." I felt kind of hopeless at that point, so I did some research online and found this book. It's been helpful for me in understanding her, and the stories of other kids mentioned in the book are comforting, but it didn't provide me with any solutions. That being said, I did find value in the book. When I am having a particularly rough day with her, I'll read parts of it, and I am reminded that we all see and process the world differently.

As the parent of a young child with slower processing, this book reads like the missing instruction manual that should have come with the baby. Our child is super intelligent and bright, but very likely struggles with slow processing as evident through the time it takes to complete simple tasks like getting ready, changing activities, completing work, etc. It's even apparent in some social interactions where sometimes it seems like they're on a different wavelength or just a beat off. This book explains thoroughly how this is not an issue of intelligence, lack of motivation, lack of care, etc. Slow processing is more of an inhibitor that prevents one from executing efficiently, even though the capability and intelligence is totally there (and maybe even above average!). This book puts it all into perspective to provide parents, teachers and other care givers with the state of mind needed to give these children what they need to excel. "You think I can, but I CAN'T". It's not just laziness, there is truth in that statement. Learn how the brain is wired differently, the struggles that may introduce, and how to develop empowering strategies. I wish everyone who interacted with our child read this book!

This book is excellent. On the WISC IV test my son scored off the charts high on Verbal Comprehension (99th percentile) and almost off the charts low on processing speed (12th percentile). He is smart but slow. It became obvious in 4th grade with timed math facts. That's when his 504 plan was set up. The term for his disability - processing speed deficit - never came up. Through observation and extrapolation we came up with virtually every academic accomodation outlined in this book. In the book the authors write telling a person with PSD to try harder does not help. They cannot overcome a challenge this way. After reading this book I was able to talk to my son about this. I could hear the relief in his voice!! He is trying. Trying harder wont help. Our goal is to find the things he can do (which sports for example - crew?). This book is filled with valuable insights and suggestions. However, the social section needs more ideas for how to help children with PSD in middle school when kids are very mean. I dont want my son to suffer an emotional toll and lose confidence in his abilities and faith in his gifts. Strategies for navigating the social scene with PSD would be helpful. A support group would too.

I have already devoured the Kindle version while I wait for the hard copy version to show up tomorrow (and then decide how many more copies I will order to give to my son's teachers). This book really nailed "IT" -- the elusive key to my son's troubles at school. Yes, he has dyslexia, but that doesn't really capture the precise nature of his struggles. This book did. He doesn't have ADD, yet he often ends up "zoning out" at school and this book explained why. He is super bright yet he often seems "lost" at school. This book explained why. He has friends and great social skills, yet he often gets left out of games at recess. Now I know why. I went back to look at our dyslexia evaluation and saw that while his reasoning skills are in the 80 to 90th percentile, his processing speed is in the 2nd percentile! This explains so much. Thank you for writing this book. I can't recommend it highly enough.

This book contains a lot of great information about kids with slow processing speeds. But it has almost no information about *gifted* kids with slow processing. The title is misleading.

Excellent book explaining what goes on in the brains of these kids. Explains the different kinds of diagnosticians who might be able to test your child and point you in the right direction. The book also talks about the long-range consequences of this learning difference (some outgrow it, some don't) and what can be done. For us, it meant pulling a child out of the brick-and-mortar environment where he was expected to take in information, process it, and produce results every 45 minutes, and go to an online learning program where he can have as much time as he needs to finish a lesson.