One to One with Bill Goodman:
Dr. Mel Levine
aired May 25 and 27, 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 disabled at all; their brains are just wired differently. He discusses the implications of that perspective for teaching all children on this edition of One to One.
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, 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 several programs for evaluating children and young adults with learning, developmental, and/or behavioral problems. He is a co-founder of All Kinds of Minds, an organization that analyzes learning differences.
The “Dr. Dolittle” references stem from Levine’s home life: He shares his farm near Chapel Hill, NC with 240 geese, 40 pheasants, 12 peacocks, 10 swans, and 16 donkeys.
