In the mid-1960s, Frank Belgau was an elementary school teacher with a revolutionary idea: What if the children our education system had given up on—the ones the experts called “brain injured or retarded”—could actually learn to read?
Forty years later, Belgau’s remarkable insights into the nature and treatment of learning disabilities have fundamentally changed our understanding of the mind—and given thousands of young people the gift of literacy.
Written by his son, Eric, A Life in Balance documents Frank Belgau’s heroic attempts to uncover unconventional practices that would unlock their real potential. At its heart was one clear goal: Discovering what would create an immediate, observable improvement in reading. It’s a journey that culminates in the development of the Learning Breakthrough Program, Belgau’s cutting-edge (yet remarkably simple) therapeutic approach of precise movements and balance that dramatically improves our ability to learn, focus, and pay attention.
More than a treatise, A Life in Balance is an in-the-trenches look at the ceaseless research, powerful personalities, and supreme resistance Belgau encounters in this single-minded effort. And it’s a moving story of one man who, along with his wife Beverely, simply wouldn’t give up on the most vulnerable among us when others would.
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A Life in Balance
Discovery of a Learning Breakthrough
by Eric Belgau as told by Frank Belgau
A Life in Balance
Discovery of a Learning Breakthrough
by Eric Belgau as told by Frank Belgau
Published Feb 19, 2010
214 Pages
Genre: EDUCATION / Special Education / Learning Disabilities