Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher
James E. Ysseldyke - University of Minnesota, USA
Bob Algozzine - University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities
March 2006 | 120 pages | Corwin
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The concise guide to successfully teaching students with learning disabilities!

What is to be done to help a student who does not have an obvious special education condition, but whose expected achievement on certain academic tasks falls short of his or her actual achievement-despite evidence-based instruction? Let Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities be your guide! This compact resource describes the characteristics associated with learning disabilities, and offers practical teaching strategies proven to increase the success rate of these students both in and outside the classroom.

Highlights include:

  • A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of the nature of learning disabilities and how they are best addressed
  • Cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics that are associated with learning disabilities
  • Strategies to improve the work habits and study skills of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD
  • Highly effective methods for improving the performance of students with learning disabilities in reading, writing, and mathematics
  • Key vocabulary terms

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Contents

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

Introduction to Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

1.What Are Learning Disabilities?

  • Criticism of the Definition
  • Criteria for Identification

2.How Common Are Learning Disabilities?

  • Rapid Growth in the Category
  • Explanations of the Category’s Growth

3.What Causes Learning Disabilities?

3.What Causes Learning Disabilities?

4.How Are Learning Disabilities Assessed?

  • What Is Unique About Learning Disability Assessments?
  • Trends in the Assessment Process

5.What Characteristics Are Associated With Learning Disabilities?

  • Cognitive
  • Academic
  • Physical
  • Behavioral
  • Communication

6.How Do Teachers Teach Students With Learning Disabilities?

  • Improving Basic Skills
  • Improving Classroom Behavior
  • Improving Social Relations

7.What Should Every Teacher Know About Learning Disabilities and ADHD?

  • Definitions of ADHD
  • Principles of Remediation

8.What Trends and Issues Influence How We Teach Students With Learning Disabilities?

  • A Changing Definition
  • Subtypes of Learning Disabilities
  • Definitions Vary by State
  • Transition Questions

9. Learning Disabilities in Perspective

9. Learning Disabilities in Perspective

10. What Have We Learned?

  • Key Points
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Self-Assessment II
  • Answer Key for Self-Assessments
  • On Your Own

Resources

  • Books
  • Journals & Articles
  • Organizations

References

References

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

The concise guide to successfully teaching students with learning disabilities!

What is to be done to help a student who does not have an obvious special education condition, but whose expected achievement on certain academic tasks falls short of his or her actual achievement-despite evidence-based instruction? Let Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities be your guide! This compact resource describes the characteristics associated with learning disabilities, and offers practical teaching strategies proven to increase the success rate of these students both in and outside the classroom.

Highlights include:

  • A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of the nature of learning disabilities and how they are best addressed
  • Cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics that are associated with learning disabilities
  • Strategies to improve the work habits and study skills of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD
  • Highly effective methods for improving the performance of students with learning disabilities in reading, writing, and mathematics
  • Key vocabulary terms

A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher: The 13-Book Collection 
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Contents

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

Introduction to Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

1.What Are Learning Disabilities?

  • Criticism of the Definition
  • Criteria for Identification

2.How Common Are Learning Disabilities?

  • Rapid Growth in the Category
  • Explanations of the Category’s Growth

3.What Causes Learning Disabilities?

3.What Causes Learning Disabilities?

4.How Are Learning Disabilities Assessed?

  • What Is Unique About Learning Disability Assessments?
  • Trends in the Assessment Process

5.What Characteristics Are Associated With Learning Disabilities?

  • Cognitive
  • Academic
  • Physical
  • Behavioral
  • Communication

6.How Do Teachers Teach Students With Learning Disabilities?

  • Improving Basic Skills
  • Improving Classroom Behavior
  • Improving Social Relations

7.What Should Every Teacher Know About Learning Disabilities and ADHD?

  • Definitions of ADHD
  • Principles of Remediation

8.What Trends and Issues Influence How We Teach Students With Learning Disabilities?

  • A Changing Definition
  • Subtypes of Learning Disabilities
  • Definitions Vary by State
  • Transition Questions

9. Learning Disabilities in Perspective

9. Learning Disabilities in Perspective

10. What Have We Learned?

  • Key Points
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Self-Assessment II
  • Answer Key for Self-Assessments
  • On Your Own

Resources

  • Books
  • Journals & Articles
  • Organizations

References

References

Index

Index

Additional materials

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Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher


March 2006 | 120 pages | Corwin

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The concise guide to successfully teaching students with learning disabilities!

What is to be done to help a student who does not have an obvious special education condition, but whose expected achievement on certain academic tasks falls short of his or her actual achievement-despite evidence-based instruction? Let Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities be your guide! This compact resource describes the characteristics associated with learning disabilities, and offers practical teaching strategies proven to increase the success rate of these students both in and outside the classroom.

Highlights include:

  • A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of the nature of learning disabilities and how they are best addressed
  • Cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics that are associated with learning disabilities
  • Strategies to improve the work habits and study skills of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD
  • Highly effective methods for improving the performance of students with learning disabilities in reading, writing, and mathematics
  • Key vocabulary terms

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Table Of Contents:

  • About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Authors
  • Self-Assessment I
  • Introduction to Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities
  • 1.What Are Learning Disabilities?
  • Criticism of the Definition
  • Criteria for Identification
  • 2.How Common Are Learning Disabilities?
  • Rapid Growth in the Category
  • Explanations of the Category’s Growth
  • 3.What Causes Learning Disabilities?
  • 4.How Are Learning Disabilities Assessed?
  • What Is Unique About Learning Disability Assessments?
  • Trends in the Assessment Process
  • 5.What Characteristics Are Associated With Learning Disabilities?
  • Cognitive
  • Academic
  • Physical
  • Behavioral
  • Communication
  • 6.How Do Teachers Teach Students With Learning Disabilities?
  • Improving Basic Skills
  • Improving Classroom Behavior
  • Improving Social Relations
  • 7.What Should Every Teacher Know About Learning Disabilities and ADHD?
  • Definitions of ADHD
  • Principles of Remediation
  • 8.What Trends and Issues Influence How We Teach Students With Learning Disabilities?
  • A Changing Definition
  • Subtypes of Learning Disabilities
  • Definitions Vary by State
  • Transition Questions
  • 9. Learning Disabilities in Perspective
  • 10. What Have We Learned?
  • Key Points
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Self-Assessment II
  • Answer Key for Self-Assessments
  • On Your Own
  • Resources
  • Books
  • Journals & Articles
  • Organizations
  • References
  • Index

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