The ABCs of Learning Disabilities

2. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-12-372553-0
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

The ABCs of Learning Disabilities, Second Edition, discusses major research findings on learning disabilities in children, adolescents and adults in language, memory, social skills, self-regulation, reading, mathematics, and writing, with an additional chapter on assessment. This concise primer is intended for use as an undergraduate introductory text to the field. Written with an evenness of tone, breadth, and depth, the conveys an engaging style meant to encourage the beginning student to identify the "big picture� and to be interested in conceptual issues as well as research findings.

Zielgruppe

Psychology students studying learning disabilities and special education, as well as special educators, regular classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists, and other education and health care professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wong, Bernice

Graham, Lorraine

Hoskyn, Maureen

Berman, Jeanette

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Learning Disabilities: From Past to Present
2: Language and Learning Disabilities
3: Working Memory and Learning Disabilities
4: Social Dimensions of Learning Disabilities
5: Self-Regulation and Learning Disabilities
6: Assessment for Learning
7: Reading
8: Mathematics
9: Writing Instruction

Über Autor(innen)

Wong, Bernice
Bernice Wong is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Prior to retirement, her passion had been writing intervention research with students with and without learning disabilities. In retirement, her love for writing has transformed from academic writing to short stories about interesting events in her life.

Bernice Wong is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University where she developed a teaching lab to teach student teachers informal assessments and remedial tutoring of children and adolescents with learning disabilities. Her research area is writing interventions and in recent years, in collaboration with other teachers, she has been engaging in school-based writing research.