The Pocket Learner: Special Needs Education

The Ultimate Toolkit for Every Parent and Caregiver of A Child or Adult with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

By: Andrea Campbell

Narrated by: Bonnie Trost

The Pocket Learner is an educational system that the author developed to help her child with special educational needs. The system became an international multi-award-winning innovation, and has been extended to families across the globe to help their children build vocabulary, learn to read, and count. The author realized that several factors needed to be in place for her child to thrive in contemporary society.

First, she had to learn the hard way, battling every step of the way to access resources, therapies, and care support for her child. In addition, she had to find ways to engage her child in the home. This led her to develop the Special Education Advancement Toolkit: an inspirational, educational model and guide for parents of children struggling in their early years, or who have been diagnosed with special educational needs. It incorporates The Pocket Learner as the main resource in the toolkit.

The structure is built on six principles represented by the acronyms hope, faith, gentle(ness), joy, love, and peace. The framework revolves around the child: the star, fruit of the womb endowed with innate abilities and gifts. The toolkit covers the range of roles, responsibilities, and activities that families and other relevant parties must implement.

The program consists of six P's:

• Perception: The journey into HOPE technique.
• Preparation: The accelerated FAITH roadmap.
• Participation: The GENTLE approach solution.
• Progress: The JOY generator toolkit.
• Patience: The LOVE game strategy.
• Potential: The PEACE promotion formula.

Zig Ziglar said, “When you put faith, hope, and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.” When you add gentleness, joy, and peace, you raise a balanced, confident child armed with the mindset, skills, and competencies to take their appropriate place in society.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Andrea Campbell (P)2023 Andrea Campbell

A potent resource for parents and caregivers of children with special educational needs!

This book gave me a lot of ideas and resources to offer the parents of children with special learning needs that I work with. It’s a lot of information that is easy to digest and its empowering to the parents who feel like there are still many more options and ways to receive help.

Great Guide

This audiobook has really made parenting become so much easier since I have an outline of what to expect from someone who has already been in my current situation. This book was such a gamechanger.

Great insight!

fantastic book! My sister is studying children development and have shared briefly all the intricacies of special needs educations. I find this book so insightful and found it very neat with all the specifics. Would recommend this book for anyone who wants dip into learning this topic more.

Valuable and Creative Guide and Resource!

As an educator, I was delighted to find this book and found it to be a valuable, relatable guide. I know from experience with parents and caregivers that navigating the care of a special needs child can be a scary and overwhelming journey. This book provides abundant practical suggestions and guidance. It is written with deep love and care for the diverse experiences of all humans. Each section has an acronym to guide the main actions and considerations making them easy to remember. For example, Chapter 6 is called Potential: The PEACE promotion formula - each letter in PEACE stands for a part of the toolkit. I plan to recommend this book to parents and caregivers. I especially enjoyed the chapter highlighting famous people who have disabilities; children with special needs can be inspired by these stories and enjoy them together with their families and caregivers. The narration is excellent.

Must have reference on audio too!

The pocket Learner gives parents and Caregivers tools to use for learning and social situations of their special needs child or even adult.

The beauty is this can be used in the real world or at home which is where most parents are often dealing with ways to give a gentle, loving and fun way to learn and thrive that can include others in the home as well.