Learning Disabilities

Learning Disabilities: From Identification to Intervention

Evidence based and comprehensive, this important work offers a new approach to understanding and intervening with students with learning disabilities. The authors–leading experts in neuropsychology and special education–present a unique model of learning disabilities that integrates the cognitive, neural, genetic, and contextual factors associated with these disorders. The volume addresses classification, assessment, and intervention for a range of disabilities involved in reading, mathematics, and written expression. With a focus on exploring the evolving scientific base of the field, as well as establishing effective educational practices, this book will serve as an essential text and an indispensable resource for school psychologists, neuropsychologists, special educators, and others who work with struggling learners.

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Students with Learning Disabilities or Emotional/Behavioral Disorders

Written to reflect the changing field of special education, this book presents current, practical information related to students with learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders. The authors use a systems perspective to describe the characteristics of and issues related to students with high incidence disabilities. This is the first book available to combine discussion of these two disabilities. Chapter topics cover the nature of and assumptions regarding learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders; developmental context; biological factors and temperament; cognitive, language, and social-emotional characteristics; family factors; school and classroom factors; cultural diversity and gender; screening to placement; supporting learning and behavior change; accommodating students in inclusive settings; adolescents and adults with learning disabilities or emotional/behavioral disorders; and prevention and early intervention of learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders. For special education teachers.

Students with Learning Disabilities or Emotional/Behavioral Disorders

Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: The Syndrome and the Model

NONVERBAL LEARNING DISABILITIES systematically identifies, describes, and explains the elements and dynamics of the nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD) syndrome–including its neuropsychological, academic, and socioemotional/adaptational aspects. In addition, this groundbreaking work explores the ramifications of the NLD syndrome for both the theoretical and applied aspects of the neuropsychology of learning disabilities in particular and for the field of child-clinical neuropsychology in general.

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