Perspectives on Learning Disabilities : Biological, Cognitive, Contextual
Perspectives on Learning Disabilities : Biological, Cognitive, Contextual
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Author(s): Sternberg, Robert
ISBN No.: 9780813331768
Pages: 312
Year: 200009
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 71.29
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

Foreword -- Preface -- Biological Approaches -- Genes, Environment, and Reading Disabilities -- The Biological Foundations of Developmental Dyslexia -- The Neuropsychological Basis of Learning Disabilities -- Cognitive Approaches -- Learning Disabilities in Perspective -- Phonologically Based Reading Disabilities: Toward a Coherent Theory of One Kind of Learning Disability -- Reading Disabilities and the Interventionist -- Learning Disabilities: The Roads We Have Traveled and the Path to the Future -- Developing Reading Fluency in Learning-Disabled Students -- Contextual Approaches -- Learning Disabilities as Organizational Pathologies -- Learning Disability: Issues of Representation, Power, and the Medicalization of School Failure -- Can We Get There from Here? Learning Disabilities and Future Education Policy -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Toward an Emerging Consensus About Learning Disabilities.


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