Perspectives on learning disabilities : biological, cognitive, contextual /
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Keith II. Stanovich.
- Genes, environment, and reading disabilities / Richard K. Olson.
- The biological foundations of developmental dyslexia / Elena L. Grigorenko.
- The neuropsychological basis of learning disabilities / George W. Hynd, Amanda B. Clinton, and Jennifer R. Heimenz.
- Learning disabilities in perspective / Richard K. Wagner and Tamara Garon.
- Phonologically based reading disabilities: toward a coherent theory of one kind of learning disability / Joseph K. Torgesen.
- Reading disabilities and the interventionist / Michael G. Pressley .
- Learning disabilities: The roads we have traveled and the path to the future / Linda S. Siegel.
- Developing reading fluency in learning-disabled students / S. Jay Santuels.
- Learning disabilities as organizational pathologies / Thomas M. Skrtic.
- Learning disability: issues of representation, power, and the medicalization of school failure / Carol A. Christensen.
- Can we get there from here? Learning, disabilities and future education policy / Louis Spear-Swerling.
- Epilogue: Toward an emerging consensus about learning disabilities / Robert J. Sternberg.