Taking on a learning disability : at the crossroads of special education and adolescent literacy learning

In the United States, approximately 2.5 million students are diagnosed as having a learning disability and the majority of those children are placed in special education because of an inability to read as expected. As a result of this diagnosis, these children may be placed in special education clas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author McCloskey, Erin (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., 2012.
Subjects
Reading disability > United States > Case studies.
Learning disabled children > United States > Case studies.
elektronické knihy
Case studies.
Education > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Educational strategies and policy.
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615100
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-788-6
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 160 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Perspectives and methods: Learning disabilities and adolescent literacy learning
  • Chapter 2. A case history of samson and his family
  • Chapter 3. Doing school and having it done to you
  • Chapter 4. An old disability improves and a new one is constructed
  • Chapter 5. An apprenticeship approach to adolescent literacy learning
  • Chapter 6. On graduation day.

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