Off Track
When Poor Readers Become ""Learning Disabled""
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2019
Book
Hardback
356 pages
978-0-367-31708-9 (ISBN)
Description
The identification of poor readers as ?learning disabled? can be the first of many steps toward consigning students to a lifetime of reading failure. The very label that is meant to help children often becomes a burden that works against effective learning throughout their schooling.In this book, the authors identify the dangers of labeling childre
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
664 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-31708-9 (9780367317089)
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Person
Louise Spear-Swerling is associate professor of special education at Southern Connecticut State University. Robert J. Sternberg is IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University.
Content
What Ails the Field of Learning Disabilities -- The History of LD: Variations on a Theme -- What Is Reading Disability? -- The Road to Proficient Reading -- Roads to Reading Disability -- Issues in the Education of Children with Reading Disability -- Educational Practices for Children with Reading Disability -- Possible Causes of Reading Disability -- Abilities, Disabilities, and Reading Disability: How Are They Related? -- Early Intervention and Prevention -- Toward Another Way of Thinking About Reading Difficulties