Learning About Learning Disabilities
Edited by- Bernice Wong, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
- Deborah Butler, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Learning about Learning Disabilities, 4e 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
Audience
Researchers in learning disabilities.
Hardbound, 464 Pages
Published: August 2012
Imprint: Academic Press
ISBN: 978-0-12-388409-1
Reviews
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Praise for the Previous Edition: "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
Chapter 1 - Classification and identification of Learning Disabilities
Jack M. fletcher
Chapter 2 - Learning Disabilities and MemoryH. Lee Swason and Danielle Stomel
Chapter 3 - Brain and Behavioral Response to Intervention for Specific Reading, Writing and math Disabilities: What Works for Whom?
Virginia W. Berninger and Michael Dunn
Chapter 4 - Social Relationships: The 4th RJudith Wiener and Victoria Timmermanis
Chapter 5 - Self-Regulation Among Students with LD and ADHD
Robert R. Reid, Karen R. Harris, Steven Graham and Marcia Rock
Chapter 6 - Reading Interventions for Students in Early Primary GradesSylvia Linan-thompson and Jeremy Miciak
Chapter 7 - Highlights in Reading Comprehension Intervention Research for Students with learning Disabilities
Linda H. Mason and Jessica L. Hagaman
Chapter 8 - Instructional Interventions for Students with Mathematics Learning DisabilitiesMargo A. Mastropieri, Thomas E. Scruggs, Clara Hauth, and Dannette Allen-Bronaugh
Chapter 9 - Writing Instruction
Charles A. MacArthur, Zoi Philippakos, Steve Graham, and Karen Harris
Chapter 10 - Assessment and Interventions for English Language Learners with Learning DisabilitiesEsther Geva and Katherine Herbert
Chapter 11 - Improving Outcomes for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities
Patricia Sampson Graner and Donald D. Deshler
Chapter 12 - Effective Instruction for History and the Social Studies: What Works for Students with Learning DisabilitiesSusan De La Paz
Chapter 13 - Navigating the Postsecondary Landscape
John G. Freeman, Allyson Harrison and Ena Holtermann with Ingrid Jackson and Todd Cunningham
Chapter 14 - Special Education Curriculum in an Era of High StandardsJohn Woodward
Chapter 15 - Included, but Underserved: Rediscovering Special Education for Students with Learning Disabilities
Jean B. Crockett, Elizabeth A. Filippi and Cheryl L. Morgan
