| Description |
xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Keith E. Stanovich. -- Genes, environment, and reading disabilities / Richard K. Olson. -- The biological foundations of developmental dyslexia / Elena L. Grigorenko. -- The neuropsychological basis of learning disabilities / George W. Hynd, Amanda B. Clinton, and Jennifer R. Heimenz. -- Learning disabilities in perspective / Richard K. Wagner and Tamara Garon. -- Phonologically based reading disabilities: toward a coherent theory of one kind of learning disability / Joseph K. Torgesen. -- Reading disabilities and the interventionist / Michael G. Pressley . -- Learning disabilities: The roads we have traveled and the path to the future / Linda S. Siegel. -- Developing reading fluency in learning-disabled students / S. Jay Santuels. -- Learning disabilities as organizational pathologies / Thomas M. Skrtic. -- Learning disability: issues of representation, power, and the medicalization of school failure / Carol A. Christensen. -- Can we get there from here? Learning, disabilities and future education policy / Louis Spear-Swerling. -- Epilogue: Toward an emerging consensus about learning disabilities / Robert J. Sternberg. |
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Learning disabilities.
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Learning disabilities. |
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Learning disabled children -- Education.
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Learning disabled children -- Education. |
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Learning disabled children. |
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Learning disabilities -- Physiological aspects.
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Learning disabilities -- Physiological aspects. |
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Constructivism (Education)
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Constructivism (Education) |
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Context effects (Psychology) in children.
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Context effects (Psychology) in children. |
| Added Author |
Sternberg, Robert J.
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Spear-Swerling, Louise.
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| ISBN |
0813331757 hardcover alkaline paper |
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