Learning Disabled category: 563 books
Improving Disabled Students' Learning
Experiences and Outcomes
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...
To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled
Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD, ADHD
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...
Taking on a Learning Disability
At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning
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...
by Sharon Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2015
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
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,...
The Short Bus
A Journey Beyond Normal
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...
by Lois Letchford
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
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;...
Mislabeled as Disabled
The Educational Abuse of Struggling Learners and How WE Can Fight It
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...
Supporting Children with Learning Difficulties
Holistic Solutions for Severe, Profound and Multiple Disabilities
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...
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)
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...
by Evan Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
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...
You Can't Read With Your Eyes Closed
How to Help our Most Challenging Readers Right From the Start - This is Daniel's Story -
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...
Management of Cerebal Palsy
A Transdisciplinary Approach
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...
Learning Tracks
Planning and Assessing Learning for Children with Severe and Complex Needs
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...