For Release: April 30, 2007
Dr. Mel Levine, once described by an educational journal as a cross between Dr. Spock and Dr. Dolittle, believes that children with learning disabilities are not really disab led; their brain is just wired differently. Levine is Bill Goodman's guest on the next edition of One to One , airing Friday, May 25 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET2 and Sunday, May 27 at 2/1 p.m. CT on KET1.A professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School in Chapel Hill and the director of the university's Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning, Dr. Levine is the author of A Mind at a Time , The Myth of Laziness and Ready or Not, Here Life Comes . Over the past 30 years he has pioneered programs for the evaluation of children and young adults with learning, development and/or behavioral problems and is a co-founder of All Kinds of Minds, an organization that analyzes learning differences.
Dr. Levine lives near Chapel Hill, N.C., on a farm that he shares with 240 geese, 40 pheasants, 12 peacocks, 10 swans and 16 donkeys.
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