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Perspectives on learning disabilities : biological, cognitive, contextual / edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Louise Spear-Swerling ; with a foreword by Keith E. Stanovich.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Learning disabilities.
- Learning disabled children--Education.
- Learning disabled children.
- Learning disabilities--Physiological aspects.
- Constructivism (Education).
- Context effects (Psychology) in children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; London, [England] : Routledge, 2018.
- Summary:
- This book discusses biological, cognitive, educational, sociological, and interactive to discuss the nature of learning disabilities, its origins, its diagnosis, and effective remediation. It emphasizes the development of ideas as the motor forces behind the economic policies.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART ONE Biological Approaches; 1. Genes, Environment, and Reading Disabilities; 2. The Biological Foundations of Developmental Dyslexia; 3. The Neuropsychology Basis of Learning Disabilities; PART TWO Cognitive Approaches; 4. Learning Disabilities in Perspective; 5. Phonologically Based Reading Disabilities: Toward a Coherent Theory of One Kind of Learning Disability; 6. Reading Disabilities and the Interventionist; 7. Learning Disabilities: The Roads We Have Traveled and the Path to the Future; 8. Developing Reading Fluency in Learning-Disabled Students
- PART THREE Contextual Approaches9. Learning Disabilities as Organizational Pathologies; 10. Learning Disability: Issues of Representation, Power, and the Medicalization of School Failure; 11. Can We Get There from Here? Learning Disabilities and Future Education Policy; PART FOUR Conclusions; 12. Epilogue: Toward an Emerging Consensus About Learning Disabilities; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-97801-4
- 1-4294-9164-7
- OCLC:
- 895432214
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