Learning about Learning Disabilities

Name: Learning about Learning Disabilities
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ISBN: 9780127625324

ISBN-10: 0127625321

ISBN-13: 9780127625324

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Bernice Y. L. Wong

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In 1991, Academic Press published Bernice Wong's Learning About Learning Disabilitiesto great success. The Second Edition will keep up the momentum on this popular title, and bring the chapters up-to-date inthis fast moving field. This is the first text 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. Nineteen chapters cover all aspects of learning disabilities, including assessment, attention disorders, memory, language, vision, socialization, reading, writing, and math. The book also offers chapters on learning disabilities in…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date: 4/30/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 754
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English



Contributors


Preface


Acknowledgments


To the Student


Conceptual, Historical, and Research Aspects of Learning Disabilities


Learning Disabilities: An Historical and Conceptual Overview


Assessment in Learning Disabilities with a Focus on Curriculum-Based Measurement


Attention Disorders


Learning Disabilities and Memory


Language Problems: A Key to Early Reading Problems


Visual Processes in Learning Disabilities


Social Competence of Students with Learning Disabilities


Metacognition and Learning Disabilities


Assessment and Instructional Aspects of Learning Disabilities


Early Reading and Instruction


Fostering Reading Competence in Students with Learning Disabilities


Reading, Spelling, and Writing Disabilities in the Middle Grades


Writing Instruction


Instructional Interventions for Students with Mathematics Learning Disabilities


Social Competence of Students with Learning Disabilities: Interventions and Issues


Classrooms for Students with Learning Disabilities: Realities, Dilemmas, and Recommendations for Service Delivery


A Life Span Approach to Understanding Learning Disabilities


Specific Reading and Writing Disabilities in Young Children: Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention


Adolescents with Learning Disabilities


Strategic Instruction for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities


Adults with Learning Disabilities


Author Index


Subject Index