Learning about learning disabilities /

Bernice Wong's Learning about Learning Disabilities was the first text to give equal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities. Chapters summarizing research on learning disabilities include coverage of ADHD, memory, language processing, social co...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Wong, Bernice Y. L. (Editor); Butler, Deborah L. (Editor)
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: [Place of publication not identified] :
Publication Dates: 2012.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Forth edition.
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123884091
Summary: Bernice Wong's Learning about Learning Disabilities was the first text to give equal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities. Chapters summarizing research on learning disabilities include coverage of ADHD, memory, language processing, social competence, self-regulation, and brain structures as they apply to learning disabilities. Chapters focusing on instructional aspects of learning disabilities include coverage of teaching literacy, reading comprehension, writing, and mathematics.
Item Description: Title from publisher's Web site; (ScienceDirect, viewed on Aug. 9, 2012).
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (447 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780123884091
0123884098
0123884144
9780123884145
Index Number: LC4704
CLC: G764
Contents: Classification and identification of learning disabilities / Jack M. Fletcher -- Learning disabilities and memory / H. Lee Swanson, and Danielle Stomel -- Brain and behavioral response to intervention for specific reading, writing, and math disabilities : what works for whom? / Virginia W. Berninger and Michael Dunn -- Social relationships : the 4th R / Judith Wiener and Victoria Timmermanis -- Self-regulation among students with LD and ADHD / Robert R. Reid [and others] -- Reading interventions for students in early primary grades / Sylvia Linan-Thompson, and Jeremy Miciak -- Highlights in reading comprehension intervention research for students with learning disabilities / Lina H. Mason, and Jessica L. Hagaman -- Instructional interventions for students with mathematics learning disabilities / Margo A. Mastropieri [and others] -- Writing instruction / Charles A. MacArthur [and others] -- Assessment and interventions for English language learners with learning disabilities / Esther Geva, and Katherine Herbert -- Improving outcomes for adolescents with learning disabilities / Patricia Sampson Graner, and Donald D. Deshler -- Effective instruction for history and the social studies : what works for students with learning disabilities / Susan De La Paz -- Navigating the postsecondary landscape / John G. Freeman [and others] -- Special education curriculum in an era of high standards / John Woodward -- Included, but underserved : rediscovering special education for students with learning disabilities / Jean B. Crockett, Elizabeth A. Filippi, and Cheryl L. Morgan.