Essential Skills for Struggling Learners

Erik von Hahn, M.D .Dr .Erik von Hahn has worked with children with diverse disabilities for more than 20 years . He has extensive consultative relationships with schools , especially in Massachusetts , and earlier in his career in New Hampshire . He has developed a deep understanding of children with disabilities , as seen through the lens of the school professionals who serve them . In addition to his consultative practice with schools , Dr . von Hahn maintains a clinical practice in a teaching hospital . He uses his experience working with schools to help families in the clinic communicate successfully with their child’s school team . As part of his academic duties, Dr . von Hahn has substantial teaching duties with Tufts University School of Medicine . He provides training and supervision of future Developmental-Behavioral Pediatricians , future general pediatricians , and future allied health care professionals in social work , speech pathology , and psychology . Finally , Dr . von Hahn provides regular continuing education services to both educators and local general pediatricians in their practice . Successful service to children with disabilities occurs when adults can work successfully with one another . All of Dr . von Hahn’s clinical and teaching encounters emphasize service to children with disabilities through collaboration among home , school , and clinic . Sheldon H. Horowitz, Ed.D. Dr . Sheldon H .Horowitz is a Senior Advisor at the National Center for Learning Disabilities . Prior to his arrival at NCLD , he directed hospital-based evaluation and treatment programs in outpatient psychiatry and in developmental and behavioral pediatrics , as well as having taught at the primary , secondary, , and college levels , and served as a consultant to school districts throughout the New York City metropolitan region . He has published in the areas of fetal alcohol effects in children , language -based learning disabilities, and disorders of hyperactivity and attention and has contributed content and expertise to several web sites in the area of learning disabilities . Dr . Horowitz is a regular presenter at professional conferences and is frequently cited in the popular press on topics including parenting children with learning disabilities and other special needs , attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder ,assessment and evaluation , evidence-based interventions , parent advocacy and special education policy reform , post -secondary transition , and LD throughout the life span . Caroline Linse, Ed. D. Dr .Caroline Linse is a Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University, Belfast, where she teaches in the School of Social Sciences Education and Social Work . She teaches in the TESOL ( Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages ) program and works directly with current and future teachers who must address cultural and linguistic diversity as a core element of the instruction that they deliver . She has worked in a variety of countries with learners and teachers from different cultural and linguistic traditions .

A Note on the Chapter Appendices
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Introduction

SECTION I NEUROLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 1 Vision Skills
Chapter 2 Hearing Skills
Chapter 3 Motor Skills

SECTION II DEVELOPMENTAL FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 4 Formal Language Skills
Chapter 5 Pragmatic Language Skills
Chapter 6 Social Skills
Chapter 7 Executive Skills
Chapter 8 Affect and Self -Regulation Skills

SECTION III EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 9 Reading Skills
Chapter 10 Writing Skills
Chapter 11 Math Skills

Appendix A Implementing the Frameworks: Suggestions for Professionals
Appendix B Implementing the Frameworks: Suggestions for Team Leaders