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Rethinking Learning Disabilities

Understanding Children Who Struggle in School
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Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it. Leading researcher and clinician Deborah Waber offers an alternative to the prevailing view of learning disability as a problem contained within the child. Instead, she shows how learning difficulties are best understood as a function of the developmental interaction between the child and the world. Integrating findings from education, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, she offers a novel approach with direct practical implications. Detailed real-world case studies illustrate how this approach can promote positive outcomes for children who struggle in school.
I. The Developmental Approach to Learning Disabilities 1. The Dilemma: What Is a Learning Disability?2. A Learning Disability Is a Developmental Problem3. A Developmental Science Perspective on Learning Disabilities4. A Lifespan Perspective on Learning Disabilities5. Identifying Learning Disabilities: A Developmental Approach6. Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience: Automatic and Effortful ProcessingII. Diagnosing the Child-World Interaction 7. Identical Twins8. An Adequate Achiever with Learning Problems9. Beyond a "Reading Problem"10. Learning-Disabled Children Grown Up11. A Developmental Strategy for Resolving the DilemmaAppendix. Publications of the Children's Hospital Boston Learning Disabilities Research Center
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