Full Description
Intervention Research in Learning Disabilities is based on proceedings of the Symposium on Intervention Research sponsored by the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) of the Council for Exceptional Children and held at Purdue University, November 14-16, 1988. It presents a wide range of critical issues and insights, both theoretical and practical, related to research with learning disabled individuals. The book is divided into four broad sections: issues in intervention research, academic interventions, social and behavioral interventions, and postsecondary interventions. It considers both present and future directions of such research. Topics explored include variance and verities in learning disability interventions, instruction derived from the strategy deficit model, enhancement of academic performance with mnemonic instruction, the content enhancement model for promoting content acquisition, interactive teaching and learning, social skills training (and an alternative approach to social skills training), the use of schema in research on the problem solving of learning disabled adolescents, and intervention effectiveness at the postsecondary level.
Contents
I Issues in Intervention Research.- 1 Variances and Verities in Learning Disability Interventions.- 2 Instruction Derived from the Strategy Deficit Model: Overview of Principles and Procedures.- Commentary Foundations of Intervention Research.- II Academic Interventions.- 3 Strategy Instruction Is Often Insufficient: Addressing the Interdependency of Executive and Attributional Processes.- 4 Enhancing Academic Performance with Mnemonic Instruction.- 5 Content Enhancement: A Model for Promoting the Acquisition of Content by Individuals with Learning Disabilities.- 6 Interactive Teaching and Learning: Instructional Practices for Teaching Content and Strategic Knowledge.- 7 Unraveling the Mysteries of Writing Through Strategy Instruction.- Commentary Signposts to Future Directions in Learning Disabilities Intervention Research.- III Social and Behavioral Interventions.- 8 Self-Recording of Attending to Task: Treatment Components and Generalization of Effects.- 9 Social Skills Training with Learning Disabled Children and Adolescents: The State of the Art.- 10 Why Social Skills Training Doesn't Work: An Alternative Model.- 11 The Use of Schema in Research on the Problem Solving of Learning Disabled Adolescents.- Commentary The Effectiveness of Social and Behavioral Interventions.- IV Postsecondary Interventions.- 12 Intervention Effectiveness at the Postsecondary Level for the Learning Disabled.
