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For Educators: Teaching Strategies
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, Social/Emotional Development: Underachievement
||Empowering Underachievers: New Strategies to Guide Kids (8-18) to Personal Excellence
||Spevak, P. & Karinch, M.
||New Horizon Press
||Peter A. Spevak and Maryann Karinch provide techniques on constructively engaging and empowering your child by giving him/her choices instead of ultimatums. The theory behind the techniques: understanding the underachiever’s behavior on an emotional level.
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