Learning Disabled category: 563 books

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Improving Disabled Students' Learning

Experiences and Outcomes

by Mary Fuller, Jan Georgeson, Mick Healey
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support? This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation...
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To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled

Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD, ADHD

by Susan Baum, Steven Owen, Robin Schader
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017

To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled is one of the most popular resources available on identifying and meeting the needs of twice-exceptional students. This updated third edition provides a comprehensive look at the complex world of students with remarkable gifts, talents, and interests, who simultaneously...
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Taking on a Learning Disability

At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning

by Erin McCloskey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

In the United States, approximately 2.5 million students are diagnosed as having a learning disability and the majority of those children are placed in special education because of an inability to read as expected. As a result of this diagnosis, these children may be placed in special education classrooms...
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by Sharon Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2015

This book is written for parents, teachers, administrators, psychologists, and those who have or know someone with a learning disability. My husband and I became heavily involved with the subject of learning disabilities although we were in denial for quite some time, not wanting to believe our children...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

Learning about Learning Disabilities, 4e continues to provideequal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities. The Fourth Edition of this popular title presents 80% new material, keeping the chapters up to date in this fast-moving field. With new contributors,...
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The Short Bus

A Journey Beyond Normal

by Jonathan Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007

A young man once called unteachable journeys across America to investigate the lives of those, like himself, who are forced to create new ways of living in order to survive Labeled "dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled with attention and behavior problems," Jonathan Mooney was...
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by Lois Letchford
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

"HE'S THE WORST CHILD I'VE SEEN IN 20 YEARS OF TEACHING." When Lois Letchford learns her son has been diagnosed with a low IQ at the end of grade one, she refuses to give up on his future. Testing showed Nicholas had no spatial awareness, limited concentration, and could only read ten words;...
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Mislabeled as Disabled

The Educational Abuse of Struggling Learners and How WE Can Fight It

by Kalman R. Hettleman
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019

This book, described by reviewers as “shocking” and “a masterpiece,” exposes the tragic tale of the millions of schoolchildren who are never taught basic skills in reading, writing, and math. With heart-wrenching stories of individual children from his own experience as an advocate and ground-breaking...
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Supporting Children with Learning Difficulties

Holistic Solutions for Severe, Profound and Multiple Disabilities

by Christine Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011

How do you teach history to a child who can't remember what she had for dinner? What difference will it make to a child's counting skills if you place the objects in a line, rather than dropped randomly on the table? Will breaking down a task into smaller steps help a young person learn how to dress...
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Train the Brain to Hear

Understanding and Treating Auditory Processing Disorder, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyspraxia, Short Term Memory, Executive Function, Comprehension, and ADD/ADHD (Second Edition)

by Jennifer L. Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

Train the Brain to Hear was written by a parent and teacher for parents and teachers. The book provides explanations of the learning disabilities dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyslexia and auditory processing disorder as well as the common areas that are affected by learning disabilities including...
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by Evan Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019

We've all heard the saying… "Work Smarter, and Not Just Harder". Accelerate your learning speed by being both the teacher and the student. Imagine how much more you can accomplish if you are able to be your own teacher. Instead of adapting to other people's way of teaching, you...
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You Can't Read With Your Eyes Closed

How to Help our Most Challenging Readers Right From the Start - This is Daniel's Story -

by Jennifer Watson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

Children who struggle to learn to read need specific instruction in the visual appearance of words and letters and their sounds.They also need to learn how to use these phonics skills when reading and writing real books and real stories.More than just phonics instruction, this book has many examples...
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Management of Cerebal Palsy

A Transdisciplinary Approach

by Kate Tebbett, Poonam Natarajan, Rajul Padmanabhan
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006

Children with a debilitating condition like cerebral palsy receive treatment from a variety of specialised therapists at once. This book documents and builds on the experiences of a team of special educators in south India, who have been experimenting with a new strategy for working with children...
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Learning Tracks

Planning and Assessing Learning for Children with Severe and Complex Needs

by Lindy Furby, Jilly Catlow
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Learning Tracks is an assessment tool to support the planning and assessment of learning for children and young people with severe and complex learning disabilities (SCLD). It was designed by Lindy Furby and Jilly Catlow while teaching at St Crispin’s School for children and young people with severe...
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