New Book Empowers Parents to Liberate Their Child's Learning Patterns 

 "Priscilla L. Vail…has truly remarkable insights into how children learn and no one is more skilled in describing the practical approaches to nurture academic skill development in children."
-Mel Levine, M.D., best-selling author of A Mind at a Time 

(New York, NY--August 2002)-Kaplan Publishing is releasing a new book by National Parenting Publications Parenting Resources Honor Award and Parent's Choice Award-winning author Priscilla L. Vail, M.A.T., in time for back-to-school 2002. Her new book, Liberate Your Child's Learning Patterns (Kaplan Publishing, October 2002; $10.00) is written in the same practical, friendly, and engaging manner as her other acclaimed books. In her unique voice, she shows parents how to discover their child's learning patterns, create optimal learning settings at home, and help their child tap his own natural strengths to succeed at academic tasks.

The success of Dr. Mel Levine's book, A Mind at a Time, is indicative of the interest in learning patterns. In Liberate Your Child's Learning Patterns, Priscilla moves beyond labels, jargon, and buzz-words and offers parents practical, hands-on advice about strengthening and maximizing a child's learning patterns. The book provides an explanation of six key patterns of learning and a wealth of suggestions for enhancing these ways of learning to achieve maximum success. She also includes examples of children with each learning pattern struggling and succeeding in helpful, illustrative scenarios.

In her engaging and straightforward manner, Vail stresses that each person has more than one way of learning. She offers that, "Most of us have comfortable, dominant patterns of learning along with secondary approaches we also rely on." In Liberate Your Child's Learning Patterns the author poses the following questions for parents:

Does your child learn best through three-dimensional or two-dimensional materials?
Is your child predominantly a simultaneous or sequential processor?
Does your child learn best with multisensory teaching: visual, auditory, kinesthetic/tactile?

"In recognizing learning patterns, we see HOW different people learn, what personal energies they tap in the learning process, and the ways they absorb new information and internalize new concepts," Vail says. "You can help your child apply his own natural strengths to academic tasks and to the real life learning that brings joy and sparks interest."

About the author: Priscilla L. Vail, M.A.T., was a full-time teacher for over twenty-three years. Learning, learning issues and styles, emotional influences, language development, reading and writing, and the connection between minds and brains, are some of Priscilla's passions and areas of expertise. She won a Parent's Choice Award for non-fiction and a National Parenting Publications Award for the Homework Heroes series (with Drew and Cynthia Johnson, also from Kaplan Publishing). She is a member of the International Dyslexia Association, The President's Council, The American Association for Gifted Children, and the National Association of Independent Schools. Her educational articles appear frequently in professional journals and she consults in 80-100 schools a year.

Liberate Your Child's Learning Patterns is available wherever books are sold.

BOOK INFORMATION

Liberate Your Child's Learning Patterns
By Priscilla L. Vail, M.A.T.
Kaplan Publishing (Kaplan, Inc. and Simon & Schuster), October 2002
ISBN: 0-7432-3051-5 Price: $10.00

Also available from Priscilla L. Vail for Fall 2002: Seize the Meaning! Help Your Child Move from Learning to Read to Reading to Learn

Note to Editors: Review copies are available upon request. Please contact Lori DeGeorge at lori.degeorge@kaplan.simonandschuster.com or by phone at 212-698-1272.

Author Available for Interview for Education/Parenting Stories
To schedule an interview with Priscilla L. Vail, please contact Lori Duggan Gold at lori_duggangold@kaplan.com or at 212-492-5903.

About Kaplan Publishing: Kaplan Publishing is a joint venture between Kaplan, Inc. and Simon & Schuster. In 2001, Kaplan publishing introduced 65 new titles on test preparation, admissions, education, parent involvement, career development, and life skills. With Congress' passage of the President's "No Child Left Behind" education package, Kaplan Publishing is well positioned to meet the needs of parents and students seeking state-specific test preparation and parent involvement tools. Kaplan, Inc. is a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO.)

Press Contact:
Lori Duggan Gold
lori_duggangold@kaplan.com
212-492-5903 or 212-698-4669

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