Beschreibung:
Louise Spear-swerling
This book identifies the dangers of labeling children as reading or learning disabled, contending that a "reading disability" is not a unitary phenomenon. It presents a new theoretical model of reading disability that integrates a wide variety of findings across age and grade spans.
Preface -- What Ails the Field of Learning Disabilities -- The History of LD: Variations on a Theme -- What Is Reading Disability? -- The Road to Proficient Reading -- Roads to Reading Disability -- Issues in the Education of Children with Reading Disability -- Educational Practices for Children with Reading Disability -- Possible Causes of Reading Disability -- Abilities, Disabilities, and Reading Disability: How Are They Related? -- Early Intervention and Prevention -- Toward Another Way of Thinking About Reading Difficulties