Learning Disabled category: 563 books
Bridging the Gap
Raising A Child With Nonverbal Learning Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
“A special-needs guide that comes to the rescue” (Carol Stock Kranowitz, author of The Out-of-Sync Child) of those who struggle with an increasingly common condition.
Millions of children suffer from Nonverbal Learning Disorder, a neurological deficit that prevents them from understanding...
by Ellen Notbohm, Veronica Zysk
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Winner of an iParenting Media Award and Finalist in the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards! Ellen Notbohm’s first book, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew was a shot heard throughout the worldwide autism community. Now, for the teacher in all of us comes Ten Things Your Student...
Dyslexia in the Early Years
A Practical Guide to Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Packed full of activities, real-life case studies, tasks and suggestions, this informative book will equip teachers with the kind of practical knowledge needed to teach young children with dyslexia effectively.
Tackling the subject in a clear and realistic way, the author encourages teachers...
Educating Children with Fragile X Syndrome
A Multi-Professional View
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
What is Fragile X? The most common inherited cause of learning difficulties, affecting a child's ability to tackle key areas such as literacy and numeracy, and causing behaviour problems and social anxiety.
What can teachers do to help children with Fragile X become more effective learners?...
by Philomena Ott
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Readers will find this practical and comprehensive guide to spelling invaluable. Day-to-day advice on how to help those with difficulties is underpinned by information on the development of the English language and its spelling rules with explanations of common language problems. Chapters cover:
spelling...
Handbook of Language and Literacy, Second Edition
Development and Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
An acclaimed reference that fills a significant gap in the literature, this volume examines the linkages between spoken and written language development, both typical and atypical. Leading authorities address the impact of specific language-related processes on K-12 literacy learning, with attention...
by Pam Epler, Rorie Ross
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Educators today are challenged with the task of designing curricula and standards for students of varying abilities. While technology and innovation steadily improve classroom learning, teachers and administrators continue to struggle in developing the best methodologies and practices for students with...
Advances in Reading Intervention
Research to Practice to Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Effective early reading intervention depends on research and practice that leads to positive changes in classroom practice and better student reading outcomes. This important volume promotes the valuable “research to practice to research” loop, bringing top experts and practitioners together to...
by Paul Madaule
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Foreword by Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain That Changes Itself and The Brain's Way of Healing. In When Listening Comes Alive, Paul Madaule re-awakens a skill that we all have - a skill that can improve communication, creativity and learning ability, allowing a fuller and more energetic life....
Finding You Finding Me
Using Intensive Interaction to get in touch with people whose severe learning disabilities are combined with autistic spectrum disorder
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Phoebe Caldwell's remarkable new book makes accessible for the first time the complex, intricate inner and sensory worlds of people whose learning disabilities are combined with autistic spectrum disorder and, often, difficult-to-manage behaviour. Based on many years of working with such people, many...
Dyslexia and Inclusion
Classroom approaches for assessment, teaching and learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Now fully updated, Dyslexia and Inclusion aims to equip all teachers with the necessary knowledge of dyslexia in order to for it to be effectively understood and dealt with in the classroom.
The book is based around Reid’s five signposts for successful inclusion - acknowledging differences,...
Life Learning Is for Everyone
The True Story of How South Carolina Came to Be a Leader in Providing Opportunities for Postsecondary Education to Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Anyone interested in disability, in education, in helping broaden the horizon of opportunities for young people exiting special education will be the wiser for having read this book. Readable, fast-paced, well written, and instructivethis book provides fascinating and important insight into the brilliant...
Living With Dyslexia
The social and emotional consequences of specific learning difficulties/disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book reinforces the need for understanding and support for children
with dyslexia from parents and teachers, but also the importance of the
children's own understanding of their strengths and weaknesses in order
to fulfil their potential. It should be recommended reading for all
those involved...
Strategies for Learning
Empowering Students for Success, Grades 9-12
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
These explicit, reiterative strategies improve motivation, help struggling students "learn how to learn," and provide them with an effective skill set for all content areas.