Handbook of Learning Disabilities

Herausgeber: Swanson, H Lee; Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this comprehensive handbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the nature and classification of learning disabilities (LD), their causes, and how individuals with these difficulties can be identified and helped to succeed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• 2 New edition
• Seitenzahl: 716
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1434g
• ISBN-13: 9781462508495
• ISBN-10: 1462508499
• Artikelnr.: 36207070

Autorenporträt

H. Lee Swanson, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology/Special Education and holds an endowed chair at the University of California, Riverside. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Learning Disabilities and was the founding editor of Learning and Individual Differences. Widely published, Dr. Swanson has received research awards from the American Educational Research Association, the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, and the Council for Learning Disabilities. His primary research interests are in the areas of intelligence, memory, mathematics, reading, and dynamic assessment as they apply to children with LD. Karen R. Harris, EdD, is the Mary Emily Warner Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University; she shares this professorship with Steve Graham. Dr. Harris has worked in the field of education for over 35 years as a teacher, teacher educator, and researcher. She is the former editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology and is an associate editor of the American Psychological Association's open-access online journal Archives of Scientific Psychology. Her research focuses on theoretically based interventions for the development of academic and self-regulation abilities among students who are at risk for or have severe learning challenges, including LD and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Harris and Steve Graham are coeditors of the Guilford series What Works for Special-Needs Learners. Steve Graham, EdD, is the Warner Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. He is also Research Professor in the Learning Science Institute at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. Dr. Graham is editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology. He has coedited several books, including Handbook of Writing Research, Second Edition; Handbook of Learning Disabilities, Second Edition; and Best Practices in Writing Instruction, Second Edition; and is the coauthor of three influential Carnegie Corporation reports: Writing Next, Writing to Read, and Informing Writing. Dr. Graham has received numerous awards, including the Career Research Award from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), the Kauffman-Hallahan Distinguished Researcher Award from the CEC Division of Research, the Samuel A. Kirk Award from the CEC Division of Learning Disabilities, the Distinguished Researcher Award from the special education interest group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the Wiederholt Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Council of Learning Disabilities. He is a fellow of the AERA and the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Foundations and Current Perspectives
1. Overview of Foundations, Causes, Instruction, and Methodology in the
Field of Learning Disabilities, H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris, and Steve
Graham
2. A Brief History of the Field of Learning Disabilities, Daniel P.
Hallahan, Paige C. Pullen, and Devery Ward
3. Classification and Definition of Learning Disabilities: A Hybrid Model,
Jack M. Fletcher, Karla K. Stuebing, Robin D. Morris, and G. Reid Lyon
4. Learning Disabilities and the Law, Cynthia M. Herr and Barbara D.
Bateman
5. Linguistically Diverse Students' Reading Difficulties: Implications for
Models of Learning Disabilities Identification and Effective Instruction,
Nonie K. Lesaux and Julie Russ Harris
6. Adults with Learning Disabilities: Factors Contributing to Persistence,
Noel Gregg
7. From FAPE to FEPE: Toward an Excellent Public Education for Children and
Youth with Learning Disabilities, Deborah L. Speece, Kimberly Palombo, and
Jamey Burho
8. The State of the Science in Learning Disabilities: Research Impact on
the Field from 2001 to 2011, G. Reid Lyon and Beverly Weiser
II. Causes and Behavioral Manifestations
9. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Executive Function, and
Reading Comprehension: Different but Related, Martha B. Denckla, Laura A.
Barquero, Esther R. Lindström, Sabrina L. Benedict, Lindsay M. Wilson, and
Laurie E. Cutting
10. Rapid Automatized Naming and Reading: A Review, George K. Georgiou and
Rauno Parrila
11. Basic Cognitive Processes and Reading Disabilities, Linda S. Siegel and
Silvia Mazabel
12. Memory Difficulties in Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities,
H. Lee Swanson and Xinhua Zheng
13. Learning Disabilities in Mathematics: Recent Advances, David C. Geary
14. Language Processes: Characterization and Prevention of
Language-Learning Disabilities, Mary Beth Schmitt, Laura M. Justice, and
Jill M. Pentimonti
15. Social Cognition of Children and Adolescents with Learning
Disabilities: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Perspectives, Michal Al-Yagon
and Malka Margalit
16. Behavioral Genetics, Learning Abilities, and Disabilities, Stephen A.
Petrill
17. Diagnosing and Treating Specific Learning Disabilities in Reference to
the Brain's Working Memory System, Virginia W. Berninger and H. Lee Swanson
III. Domain-Specific Instruction/Intervention Research
18. Word Identification Difficulties in Children and Adolescents with
Reading Disabilities: Intervention Research Findings, Maureen W. Lovett,
Roderick W. Barron, and Jan C. Frijters
19. Developing a New Intervention to Teach Text Structure at the Elementary
Level, Joanna P. Williams and Lisa S. Pao
20. Reading Comprehension for Adolescents with Significant Reading
Problems, Sharon Vaughn, Elizabeth Swanson, and Michael Solis
21. Instructional Intervention for Students with Mathematics Learning
Disabilities, Lynn S. Fuchs, Douglas Fuchs, Robin F. Schumacher, and Pamela
M. Seethaler
22. The Writing of Students with Learning Disabilities, Meta-Analysis of
SRSD Writing Intervention Studies, and Future Directions: Redux, Steve
Graham, Karen R. Harris, and Debra McKeown
23. Classroom Spelling Interventions for Students with Learning
Disabilities, T. F. McLaughlin, Kimberly P. Weber, and K. Mark Derby
24. Science and Social Studies, Thomas E. Scruggs and Margo A. Mastropieri
25. History Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities, Cynthia M.
Okolo and Ralph P. Ferretti
IV. General Instructional Models
26. Direct Instruction as Eo nomine and Contronym: Why the Right Words and
the Details Matter, Edward J. Kame'enui, Hank Fien, and Jaan Korgesaar
27. Cooperative Learning for Students with Learning Disabilities: Advice
and Caution Derived from the Evidence, Rollanda E. O'Connor and Joseph R.
Jenkins
28. Data-Based Individualization as a Means of Providing Intensive
Instruction to Students with Serious Learning Disorders, Douglas Fuchs,
Kristen L. McMaster, Lynn S. Fuchs, and Stephanie Al Otaiba
29. The Sociocultural Model as a Framework in Instructional Intervention
Research, Carol Sue Englert and Troy Mariage
30. Technology Applications for Improving Literacy: A Review of Research,
Charles A. MacArthur
V. Measurement and Methodology
31. Design for Learning Disabilities Experimental and Quasi-Experimental
Research, Victor L. Willson and William H. Rupley
32. Single-Case Design Intervention Research: Applications in the Learning
Disabilities Field, Thomas R. Kratochwill, Margaret R. Altschaefl, Brittany
J. Bice, and Jacqueline M. Kawa
33. Meta-Analysis of Research on Children with Learning Disabilities, H.
Lee Swanson
34. Making a Hidden Disability Visible: What Has Been Learned from
Neurobiological Studies of Dyslexia, Sally E. Shaywitz and Bennett A.
Shaywitz
35. "Taking a Handful of World": Qualitative Research in Learning
Disabilities, Brooke Moore, Janette Klingner, and Beth Harry