The ABCs of Learning Disabilities

A concise, introductory textbook to the field of learning disabilities.

Bernice Wong (Edited by), Lorraine Graham (Edited by), Maureen Hoskyn (Edited by), Jeanette Berman (Edited by)

9780123725530, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 31 March 2008

296 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.54 kg

Review of the first edition:
"The breadth of pertinent information packed into the 237 pages of text of this book is most impressive. The wide scope of essential material is presented succinctly and in a very readable and engaging style. The author did a tremendous job of selecting from current and relevant literature across different areas and summarizing the material into a very cohesive whole... The book is an excellent potential text for any undergraduate or beginning graduate class on learning disabilities. This book would also be valuable for special educators, regular classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists, and other education and health care professionals...It is rare to see a book that covers both the research and the practical applications components of a field so well." --Contemporary Psychology

The ABCs of Learning Disabilities, Second Edition, discusses major research findings on learning disabilities in children, adolescents and adults in language, memory, social skills, self-regulation, reading, mathematics, and writing, with an additional chapter on assessment. This concise primer is intended for use as an undergraduate introductory text to the field. Written with an evenness of tone, breadth, and depth, the conveys an engaging style meant to encourage the beginning student to identify the “big picture? and to be interested in conceptual issues as well as research findings.

1: Learning Disabilities: From Past to Present
2: Language and Learning Disabilities
3: Working Memory and Learning Disabilities
4: Social Dimensions of Learning Disabilities
5: Self-Regulation and Learning Disabilities
6: Assessment for Learning
7: Reading
8: Mathematics
9: Writing Instruction

Subject Areas: Teaching of students with specific learning difficulties / needs [JNSG], Educational psychology [JNC], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Child & developmental psychology [JMC]