Handbook of learning disabilities /

Handbook of learning disabilities / edited by H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham. - New York : Guilford Press, c2003. - xvii, 587 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Overview of foundations, causes, instruction, and methodology in the field of learning disabilities / Brief history of the field of learning disabilities / Classification and definition of learning disabilities : an integrative perspective / Jack M. Fletcher, Robin D. Morris, G. Reid Lyon -- Learning disabilities and the law / Learning disability as a discipline / English-language learners with learning disabilities / Searching for the most effective service delivery model for students with learning disabilities / Attention : relationships between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities / RAN's contribution to understanding reading disabilities / Basic cognitive processes and reading disabilities / Memory difficulties in children and adults with learning disabilities / Learning disabilities in arithmetic : problem-solving differences and cognitive deficits / Language processes : keys to reading disability / Self-concept and students with learning disabilities / Neurological correlates of reading disabilities / Genetic influences on reading and writing disabilities / Effective remediation of word identification and decoding difficulties in school-age children with reading disabilities / Teaching text structure to improve reading comprehension / Enhancing the mathematical problem solving of students with mathematics disabilities / Students with learning disabilities and the process of writing : a meta-analysis of SRSD studies / Preventing written expression disabilities through early and continuing assessment and intervention for handwriting and/or spelling problems : research into practice / Science and social studies / Cognitive strategies instruction research in learning disabilities / Direct instruction / Cooperative learning for students with learning disabilities : evidence from experiments, observations, and interviews / Identifying children at risk for reading failure : curriculum-based measurement and the dual-discrepancy approach / Sociocultural model in special education interventions : apprenticing students in higher-order thinking / Exploratory and confirmatory methods in learning disabilities research / Designs for applied educational research / Methods of cluster analysis and the study of learning disabilities / Neurobiological indices of dyslexia / H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham -- Daniel P. Hallahan, Devery R. Mock -- Cynthia M. Herr, Barbara D. Bateman -- Kenneth A. Kavale, Steven R. Forness -- Russell Gersten, Scott Baker -- Naomi Zigmond -- Laurie E. Cutting, Martha Bridge Denckla -- Patricia Greig Bowers, Galit Ishaik -- Linda S. Siegel -- H. Lee Swanson, Leilani Saez -- David C. Geary -- Virginia A. Mann -- Batya Elbaum, Sharon Vaughn -- Carlin J. Miller, Juliana Sanchez, George W. Hynd -- Jennifer B. Thomson, Wendy H. Raskind -- Maureen W. Lovett, Roderick W. Barron, Nancy J. Benson -- Joanna P. Williams -- Lynn S. Fuchs, Douglas Fuchs -- Steve Graham, Karen R. Harris -- Virginia W. Berninger, Dagmar Amtmann -- Thomas E. Scruggs, Margo A. Mastropieri -- Bernice Y. L. Wong ... [et al.] -- Gary Adams, Douglas Carnine -- Joseph R. Jenkins, Rollanda E. O'Connor -- Douglas Fuchs ... [et al.] -- Carol Sue Englert, Troy Mariage -- Robert D. Abbott, Dagmar Amtmann, Jeff Munson -- Jean B. Schumaker, Donald D. Deshler -- Deborah L. Speece -- Sally E. Shaywitz, Bennett A. Shaywitz.

1572308516 (hard)

2002015272


Learning disabilities--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Learning disabled children--Education--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.


Handbooks.

LC 4704 / .H364 2003