The ABCs of Learning Disabilities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123725534 ISBN 13: 9780123725530

Publisher: Academic Press, 2008

Synopsis

The ABCs of Learning Disabilities, Second Edition, discusses major research findings on learning disabilities in children, adolescents and adults in language, memory, social skills, self-regulation, reading, mathematics, and writing, with an additional chapter on assessment. This concise primer is intended for use as an undergraduate introductory text to the field. Written with an evenness of tone, breadth, and depth, the conveys an engaging style meant to encourage the beginning student to identify the “big picture” and to be interested in conceptual issues as well as research findings.

• Undergraduate level text
• 90% new material
• Concise introduction to field
• Covers current concepts like removing the IQ-performance discrepancy formula in diagnosing learning disabilities
• New chapter on self-regulation and learning disabilities
• Whole school approach to social skills intervention

About this title

About the Author

Bernice Wong is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Prior to retirement, her passion had been writing intervention research with students with and without learning disabilities. In retirement, her love for writing has transformed from academic writing to short stories about interesting events in her life.

From the Back Cover

The ABCs of Learning Disabilities, second edition, discusses major research findings on learning disabilities in children, adolescents and adults in language, memory, social skills, self-regulation, reading, mathematics, and writing, with an additional chapter on assessment. This concise primer is intended for use as an undergraduate introductory text to the field. Authored for evenness of tone, breadth, and depth, the book is written in an engaging style meant to encourage the beginning student to identify the big picture? and to be interested in conceptual issues as well as research findings.

Key Features:
Undergraduate level text
90% new material
Concise introduction to field
Covers current concepts like removing the IQ-performance discrepancy formula in diagnosing learning disabilities
New chapter on self-regulation and learning disabilities
Whole school approach to social skills intervention.

Review of the 1st edition:

"The breadth of pertinent information packed into the 237 pages of text of this book is most impressive. The wide scope of essential material is presented succinctly and in a very readable and engaging style. The author did a tremendous job of selecting from current and relevant literature across different areas and summarizing the material into a very cohesive whole... The book is an excellent potential text for any undergraduate or beginning graduate class on learning disabilities. This book would also be valuable for special educators, regular classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists, and other education and health care professionals...It is rare to see a book that covers both the research and the practical applications components of a field so well."
--Contemporary Psychology--

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0123725534
• ISBN 13: 9780123725530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Wong Bernice, Graham Lorraine, Hoskyn Maureen, Berman Jeanette