基本説明
Provides a balanced focus on the conceptual and practical aspects of learning disabilities.
Full Description
Learning about Learning Disabilities, Fourth Edition continues to provide equal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities. The Fourth Edition of this popular title presents 80% new material, keeping the chapters up to date in this fast-moving field. With new contributors, and 11 new chapters, coverage is both comprehensive and thorough, encompassing the classification and identification of learning disabilities, learning disabilities in reading, writing, math, and social studies, interventions, and the issues germane to different age ranges of the learning disabled: children, adolescents, and adults.Readers will find Learning About Learning Disabilities, Fourth Edition suitable for use as a reference source for researchers or as a graduate level text.
Reviews of previous editions:
"This text provides a balanced focus on both the conceptual and practical aspects of learning disabilities. Its research coverage is more comprehensive and of greater depth than any other LD textbook, and it is distinctive in its treatment of such important areas as consultation skills and service delivery."-CHILD ASSESSMENT NEWS"... provides a broad overview of some important issues in relation to the education and development of pupils with learning disabilities... Wong has succeeded in providing detailed descriptions and comments within a book which covers a broad range of topics. Without exception the chapters are clearly written and accessible, and many provide the reader with challenging ideas and practical suggestions."-BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
Contents
1. Classification and identification of Learning Disabilities
Jack M. fletcher
2. Learning Disabilities and Memory
H. Lee Swason and Danielle Stomel
3. Brain and Behavioral Response to Intervention for Specific Reading, Writing and math Disabilities: What Works for Whom?
Virginia W. Berninger and Michael Dunn
4. Social Relationships: The 4th R
Judith Wiener and Victoria Timmermanis
5. Self-Regulation Among Students with LD and ADHD
Robert R. Reid, Karen R. Harris, Steven Graham and Marcia Rock
6. Reading Interventions for Students in Early Primary Grades
Sylvia Linan-thompson and Jeremy Miciak
7. Highlights in Reading Comprehension Intervention Research for Students with learning Disabilities
Linda H. Mason and Jessica L. Hagaman
8. Instructional Interventions for Students with Mathematics Learning Disabilities
Margo A. Mastropieri, Thomas E. Scruggs, Clara Hauth, and Dannette Allen-Bronaugh
9. Writing Instruction
Charles A. MacArthur, Zoi Philippakos, Steve Graham, and Karen Harris
10. Assessment and Interventions for English Language Learners with Learning Disabilities
Esther Geva and Katherine Herbert
11. Improving Outcomes for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities
Patricia Sampson Graner and Donald D. Deshler
12. Effective Instruction for History and the Social Studies: What Works for Students with Learning Disabilities
Susan De La Paz
13. Navigating the Postsecondary Landscape
John G. Freeman, Allyson Harrison and Ena Holtermann with Ingrid Jackson and Todd Cunningham
14. Special Education Curriculum in an Era of High Standards
John Woodward
15. Included, but Underserved: Rediscovering Special Education for Students with Learning Disabilities
Jean B. Crockett, Elizabeth A. Filippi and Cheryl L. Morgan
