Perspectives on learning disabilities : biological, cognitive, contextual /: biological, cognitive, contextual. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Louise Spear-Swerling.
• Editors: Sternberg, Robert J; Spear-Swerling, Louise
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Subjects: 371.9; Learning disabilities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429978012; 0429978014
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