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Rethinking Learning Disabilities: Understanding Children Who Struggle in School
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Waber, Deborah P. – Guilford Publications, 2010
Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it. Leading researcher and clinician Deborah Waber offers an alternative to the prevailing view of learning disability as a problem contained within the child. Instead, she shows how learning difficulties are best…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Learning Problems, Twins, Learning Disabilities
Making It Work: Embedding a Supported Employment Approach in Vocational Education and Training for People with Learning Difficulties
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Jacobsen, Yola – National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 2010
The "Making it Work" book is for practitioners and managers working with people with learning difficulties in FE colleges, adult and community learning services, work-based learning and voluntary sector organisations. This book was produced as a result of a two-year project funded by the Department of Health. It provides information…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities, Guides, Supported Employment
Handbook of Reading Interventions
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O'Connor, Rollanda E., Ed.; Vadasy, Patricia F., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2011
Comprehensive, authoritative, and designed for practical utility, this handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how current research on all aspects of literacy translates into innovative classroom practices. Chapters include clear…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Reading Comprehension, Learning Problems
Guide to Learning Disabilities for the ESL Classroom.
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Root, Christine – TESL-EJ, 1994
Discusses the possibility that many English-as-a-Second-Language learners who are viewed as poor language learners are in fact struggling because they have a learning disability. This article is a basic primer on learning disabilities. It describes classroom behaviors associated with several common learning problems, and the results of research…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Disability Identification, Dyslexia
An Interview with G. N. Getman.
Academic Therapy, 1979
The interview with G. N. Getman, a developmental optometrist specializing in learning problems and disabilities, focuses on vision's impact on learning, the role of the vision specialist in the remediation of learning problems and disabilities, early screening programs, and visual training programs. (DLS)
Descriptors: Eyes, Identification, Interviews, Learning Disabilities
A Teacher's Notebook: Alternatives for Children with Learning Problems.
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Clarke, Cynthia A.; And Others – 1975
This notebook for teachers is the result of (1) a workshop held to discuss ways of working with children who do not respond in traditional ways to learning, despite their high IQ's and apparent abilities, and (2) a questionnaire which was sent to various schools inside and outside the United States designed to elicit specific information on what…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Therapy
Teaching Word Recognition: Effective Strategies for Students with Learning Difficulties. What Works for Special-Needs Learners Series
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O'Connor, Rollanda E. – Guilford Publications, 2006
Most struggling readers, including those with reading disabilities, have difficulties recognizing printed words. This unique, lucidly written book synthesizes the research on how children learn to read words skillfully and translates it into step-by-step strategies for the classroom. The author demonstrates how to plan and implement a coordinated…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Reading Difficulties, Learning Problems, Word Recognition