Learning About Learning Disabilities

✍ Scribed by Bernice Y. L. Wong

Publisher: Elsevier Inc, Academic Press
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 635
Edition: First Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is the first textbook to give equal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities. Topical coverage is both comprehensive and thorough, and the information presented is up-to-date.

Provides a balanced focus on both the conceptual and practical aspects of learning disabilities (LD)The research covered is far more comprehensive and of greater depth than any other LD textbookThe work is distinctive in its treatment of such important areas as consultation skills and service delivery

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Contributors, Pages xiii-xv
Preface, Pages xvii-xviii, Bernice Y.L. Wong
To the Student, Pages xix-xx
CHAPTER 1 - Learning Disabilities: Historical and Conceptual Issues, Pages 3-37, Joseph K. Torgesen
CHAPTER 2 - Decision Making and Curriculum-Based Assessment, Pages 39-58, Bob Algozzine
CHAPTER 3 - Attention Disorders, Pages 59-101, Richard Conte
CHAPTER 4 - Learning Disabilities and Memory, Pages 103-127, H. Lee Swanson, John B. Cooney
CHAPTER 5 - Language Problems: A Key to Early Reading Problems, Pages 129-162, Virginia Mann
CHAPTER 6 - Visual Processes in Learning Disabilities, Pages 163-193, Dale M. Willows
CHAPTER 7 - Social Problems and Learning Disabilities, Pages 195-229, Tanis Bryan
CHAPTER 8 - The Relevance of Metacognition to Learning Disabilities, Pages 231-258, Bernice Y.L. Wong
CHAPTER 9 - Early Reading and Instruction, Pages 261-281, Lynn M. Gelzheiser, Diana Brewster Clark
CHAPTER 10 - Reading Comprehension Failure in Children, Pages 283-307, Ruth Garner, Patricia A. Alexander, Victoria Chou Hare
CHAPTER 11 - Writing Instruction, Pages 309-343, Steve Graham, Karen R. Harris, Charles MacArthur, Shirley Schwartz
CHAPTER 12 - Mathematics, Pages 345-374, Deborah D. Smith, Diane P. Rivera
CHAPTER 13 - Neuropsychology and Learning Disabilities, Pages 375-406, G. Reid Lyon, Robert E. Newby, Donna Recht, JoAnne Caldwell
CHAPTER 14 - Social Skills Enhancement in Students with Learning Disabilities, Pages 407-440, Sharon Vaughn
CHAPTER 15 - Collaborative Consultation, Pages 441-463, Suzanne M. Robinson
CHAPTER 16 - Issues in Service Delivery for Students with Learning Disabilities, Pages 465-481, James M. Kauffman, Stanley C. Trent
CHAPTER 17 - Learning Disabilities from a Developmental Perspective: Early Identification and Prediction, Pages 485-503, Barbara K. Keogh, Sue Sears
CHAPTER 18 - Adolescents with Learning Disabilities, Pages 505-561, Edwin S. Ellis, Patricia Friend
CHAPTER 19 - The Learning-Disabled Adult, Pages 563-594, Pamela B. Adelman, Susan A. Vogel
Author Index, Pages 595-616
Subject Index, Pages 617-643

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