Off Track

When Poor Readers Become ""Learning Disabled""

Louise Spear-Swerling (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

356 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31708-9 (ISBN)

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This book identifies the dangers of labeling children as reading or learning disabled, contending that a "reading disability" is not a unitary phenomenon. It presents a new theoretical model of reading disability that integrates a wide variety of findings across age and grade spans.

The identification of poor readers as ?learning disabled? can be the first of many steps toward consigning students to a lifetime of reading failure. The very label that is meant to help children often becomes a burden that works against effective learning throughout their schooling.In this book, the authors identify the dangers of labeling childre

Louise Spear-Swerling is associate professor of special education at Southern Connecticut State University. Robert J. Sternberg is IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University.

What Ails the Field of Learning Disabilities -- The History of LD: Variations on a Theme -- What Is Reading Disability? -- The Road to Proficient Reading -- Roads to Reading Disability -- Issues in the Education of Children with Reading Disability -- Educational Practices for Children with Reading Disability -- Possible Causes of Reading Disability -- Abilities, Disabilities, and Reading Disability: How Are They Related? -- Early Intervention and Prevention -- Toward Another Way of Thinking About Reading Difficulties

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	0-367-31708-7 / 0367317087
ISBN-13	978-0-367-31708-9 / 9780367317089
Zustand	Neuware