Learning Disabilities: Characteristics, Identification, and Teaching Strategies - Couverture rigide

Bender, William N.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0205129218 ISBN 13 : 9780205129218

Editeur : Prentice Hall, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Bender William N

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

The best classroom practices.
The latest research.
The issues for debate.

Learning Disabilities makes the connection between the characteristics of students with learning disabilities and the classroom tested instructional strategies that work in class. With up-to-date content, this practical guide offers insight into practical educational concerns from a teacher's perspective, while covering the relevant scholarship to best prepare your students for working with these students.

About the Book:

• NEW! Recommendations from the Commission for Excellence in Special Education are included, preparing your students for the transformation of the field of LD.
• NEW! Focus on the latest in brain compatible research and instructional practices.
• NEW! Contains research-based reading strategies, as emphasized in the No Child Left Behind Legislation!
• NEW! Emphasis on multiple intelligences instructional options for students with learning disabilities.
• Teaching Tips sections in every chapter reveal practical strategies on how to teach students with learning disabilities.
• Uses actual assessment and referral reports to present the characteristics of students with disabilities (Ch. 5 & Appendix).
• Provides practical guidelines for identification of the particular components that college-bound students with learning disabilities and their parents should look for in selection of an appropriate college program (Ch. 13).

“...elements of the text ...are EXTREMELY beneficial to the university students as learning tools.”
Dr. Coleen E. Klein, University of Central Florida

“(Learning Disabilities) provides learners with sufficient opportunities to interact with the text and apply their learning...The questions and activities at the end of each chapter encourage students to reflect upon or think critically about the context.”
Daqi Lee, State University of New York at Oneonta

Présentation de l'éditeur

Learning Disabilities focuses on both the characteristics of students with learning disabilities as well as classroom tested instructional strategies.

By utilizing the author's 20+ years of experience of working with children and adolescents who have learning disabilities, this text presents the latest research and information for every major developmental area. Accurate in content dealing with characteristics associated with learning disabilities, this practical guide also offers insight into educational concerns from a teacher's perspective, as well as the relevant scholarship.

This edition continues to offer detailed coverage of the best educational ideas, the latest scholarship, and the issues still open to debate in the dynamic, challenging, and demanding field of learning disabilities. Building on the success of previous editions, the fourth edition now also addresses the hot topic of Brain Compatible Instruction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0205129218
• ISBN 13: 9780205129218
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 900