Interventions in Learning Disabilities: A Handbook on Systematic Training Programs for Individuals with Learning Disabilities

✍ Scribed by Rachel Schiff, R. Malatesha Joshi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Series: Literacy Studies 13
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reviews systematic training programs that are designed to enhance the language, reading, literacy and cognitive skills of individuals with Learning Disabilities in various disciplines. Most titles on Learning Disabilities intervention often focus on the linguistic area of the disability, while there are many more areas of difficulty. Students with learning disabilities struggle with such as math, cognitive abilities, and organizational skills. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book encompasses a wide variety of remedial treatments and therapies developed by expert researchers and scholars in the Learning Disabilities area.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Critical Components of Phonemic Awareness Instruction and Intervention: Recommendations for Teacher Training and for Future Research....Pages 9-27
Word Reading Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties and Disabilities....Pages 29-45
A Cognitive and Linguistic Approach to Predicting and Remediating Word Reading Difficulties in Young Readers....Pages 47-66
The Efficiency of Metacognitive and Metalinguistic Awareness in Word Spelling Among Hebrew Speaking Children with SLI: An Intervention Study....Pages 67-89
Intervention and Assessment of Spelling Skills in LD Classrooms....Pages 91-103
Seizing the Sounds: Considering Phonological Awareness in the Context of Vocabulary Instruction....Pages 105-118
Effective Strategies for Developing Reading Comprehension....Pages 119-137
Using Advances in Cognitive Science to Improve Students Study Skills and Reading Comprehension....Pages 139-158
What Is Listening Comprehension and What Does It Take to Improve Listening Comprehension?....Pages 159-173
Best Practices in Writing Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities....Pages 175-190
Language and Literacy Interventions for ELs with LD: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back....Pages 191-205
A Research-Validated Program for Improving At-Risk Students’ Fraction Magnitude Understanding, Word-Problem Solving, and Explanations....Pages 207-225
Working Memory and Strategy Instruction in Children with Learning Disabilities....Pages 227-241
Training of Cognitive Control in Developmental Disorders: Pitfalls and Promises....Pages 243-254
New Directions in Preservice and Inservice Professional Development for Teaching Students with and Without Specific Learning Disabilities in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence....Pages 255-274

✦ Subjects

Literacy; Language and Literature; Language Education