Louise Spear-Swerling

Off Track

When Poor Readers Become Learning Disabled

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book identifies the dangers of labeling children as reading or learning disabled, contending that a "reading disability" is not a unitary phenomenon. It presents a new theoretical model of reading disability that integrates a wide variety of findings across age and grade spans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 231mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780367317089
• ISBN-10: 0367317087
• Artikelnr.: 57732896

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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