Literacy and learning

Among the most commonly reported characteristics of individuals with learning and behavioral disabilities are significant and persistent problems with literacy acquisition. Fortunately, applied research has revealed a number of methods for facilitating literacy learning among individuals with learni...

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Other Authors Scruggs, Thomas E., 1948-, Mastropieri, Margo A., 1951-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
SeriesAdvances in learning and behavioral disabilities ; v. 23.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849507776
ISSN0735-004X ;
DOI10.1108/S0735-004X(2010)23
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 319 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Response to intervention : treatment validity and implementation challenges in the primary and middle grades / Stephanie Al Otaiba, Mary Beth Calhoon, Jeanne Wanzek
  • The role of context in the assessment of 'unresponsiveness' within responsiveness-to-intervention : the 'relative slope-difference discrepancy model' (RSDDM) / Georgios D. Sideridis, Susana Padeliadu, Faye Antoniou
  • Literacy supports for adolescent struggling readers : taking action through comprehension instruction / Michael Faggella-Luby, Patricia Sampson Graner
  • Developmental dyslexia in a transparent orthography : a study of Spanish dyslexic children / Manuel Soriano, Ana Miranda
  • Reading comprehension : unanswered questions and reading instruction challenges / Solveig-Alma Halaas Lyster
  • A longitudinal study of the impact of effective beginning reading instruction for English learners : literacy, language, and learning disabilities / Ann W. Graves
  • Writing : underutilized for young children with disabilities? / M. Susan Burns, Julie K. Kidd, Tamara Genarro
  • Teaching students with LD to use reading comprehension strategies / Alison Gould Boardman, Janette K. Klingner, Amy L. Boelé, Elizabeth Swanson
  • Persuading students with emotional disabilities to write : a design study
  • Margo A. Mastropieri, Thomas E. Scruggs, Yojanna Cuenca-Sanchez, Nancy Irby, Sara Mills, Linda Mason, Richard Kubina
  • Components affecting expressive writing in typical and disabled writers / Cesare Cornoldi, Francesco Del Prete, Anna Gallani, Francesco Sella, Anna Maria Re
  • Dyslexia : a categorical falsehood without validity or utility / Simon Gibbs, Joe Elliott
  • The study of human exceptionality : how it informs our knowledge of learning and cognition / Margo A. Mastropieri, Thomas E. Scruggs.