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Addressing Learning Disabilities and Difficulties

How to Reach and Teach Every Student

Help children with learning difficulties or learning disabilities excel in the general education classroom!

Including updates from NCLB and IDEA 2004, this revised edition of I Can Learn offers best practices and policies that enable students with learning disabilities and difficulties to not only participate but excel in the general education classroom. Readers will discover:

  • Characteristics of specific learning and performance difficulties and disabilities
  • Strategies to improve learning skills such as listening comprehension, mathematical reasoning, and reading word recognition
  • Strategies to enhance spelling, verbal and written expression, and appropriate social behavior skills
  • Information about the referral process and determination of eligibility for special services

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412925624
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2005
  • Page Count: 184
  • Publication date: November 09, 2005

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Help children with learning difficulties or learning disabilities excel in the general education classroom!

Help struggling students avert failure before it becomes chronic and destructive to their self-esteem and motivation! Drawing from the collective experience of professionals and parents who have successfully worked with students with learning disabilities and difficulties, and including the latest information from IDEA 2004 and NCLB, this revised edition of I Can Learn provides a wealth of best practices and policies specifically designed to help these students not only participate in but also excel in the general education classroom. Readers will discover:

  • Characteristics of specific learning and performance difficulties and disabilities
  • Strategies to improve learning skills such as listening comprehension, ability to pay attention, mathematical reasoning, and reading word recognition
  • Strategies to enhance spelling, verbal and written expression, test-taking, and appropriate social behavior
  • Information about the referral process, determination of eligibility for special services, and provision of services to students with specific learning disabilities
  • School practices that support the success of all students

This clear and concise reference offers educators and parents the support and tools they need to reduce special education referrals and help all students experience successful outcomes!


Key features

  • Distinguishes learning difficulties from learning disabilities
  • General screening strategies for specific learning disabilities (so students can be referred to specialist for further testing)
  • Specific strategies to improve learning skills such as listening comprehension, attention span, retention and retrieval of material, mathematical reasoning, reading comprehension and more
  • Numerous strategies to improve performance skills such as verbal expression, spelling, test taking and more
  • Classroom management strategies for the inclusive classroom
  • Overview of referral and evaluation procedures
  • Components of a successful individualized education program (IEP)
  • Discussion of program options, service delivery models, and strategies and programs for school sites (such as peer tutoring, service learning and collaborative staff development)
  • Glossary of Special Education terms
  • Agencies, Organizations and Websites for further research
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Gilbert Guerin

Gilbert Guerin, PhD, is on the staff of the San Jose State University Foundation where he directs teacher preparation and demonstration projects. Previously he held the position of professor of special education and department chair at San Jose State University. He has also held faculty positions in the schools of Education at the University of California at Berkeley, in Educationaly Psychology at California State University, Hayward and in Psychology at Dominican College, San Rafael, California. He was a school psychologist for more than 10 years and holds teaching credentials in elementary education, secondary education, and special education. He is the author of Informal Assessment in Education; Improving Instruction for Youth at Risk; and Critical Steps in Curriculum Reform and coauthored Bridges to Reading. He is the coauthor of recent articles titled "Confronting the Problem of Poor Literacy: Recognition and Action," "Plans, Predictions, and Frustrations in the Education of a Troubled Youth: Michael's Story-One of Many," and "Dropout Prevention: a Case for Enhanced Early Literacy Efforts." He is a mentor and trainer with the Monarch Project, University of Illinois at Chicago, and has provided similar services for the Alliance Project at Vanderbilt University. He has developed an online instructional resource site for high school teachers of students who are at-risk for school failure (found at http://alternativeed.sjsu.edu). He actively supports parent participation in the instructional decisions for children and youth and collaborates with Parent Helping Parents, a family resource center.

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Mary Male

Mary Male, PhD, is a professor of special education at San Jose State University, where she has taught for twenty-two years. She coordinates a federally funded Alternative Education Teacher Preparation Program. Previously, she was a general education classroom teacher in Grades 4, 5, and 6, and a junior high school resource specialist in special education. She has also been a program administrator and staff development consultant for the California Department of Education. She has helped school districts nationwide plan for inclusive classrooms and is an expert in using technology to create access to the general education curriculum. She is the author of Technology for Inclusion: Meeting the Special Needs of All Students (2003). Recent book chapters include "Computers and Cooperative Learning in Diverse Classrooms" in Cooperative Learning and Strategies for Inclusion by Joanne Putnam (1998) and "Tools for Reconceptualizing the Inclusive Classroom" in New Ways of Lookiing at Learning Disabilities edited by Lou Denti and Patricia Tefft-Cousin (2001). She has presented at conferences nationwide on strategic planning for comprehensive systems of personnel development, cooperative learning, technology and inclusion, and alternative education. She is an Apple Distinguished Educator. She is the parent of a student with disabilities. She is active in her community by serving as a Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) and is a mentor for students in the foster care system who have a dream of a higher education.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

1. Introduction

Some Background of Difficulties With Children’s Learning and Performance

Complexity of Learning and Performance Difficulties

Basic Assumptions

Approaches to Children’s Difficulties in Learning and Performance

Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Addressing Learning Disabilities and Difficulties

Parts I and II: Their Content and Purpose

Ways to Use This Handbook

Summary

Part I: Learning Difficulties and Teaching Strategies


2. Strategies to Improve Learning Skills

Listening Comprehension

Ability to Pay Attention

Organizational Skills

Retention and Retrieval of Material

Productivity

Mathematical Computations and Operations

Mathematical Reasoning and Problem Solving

Reading Word Recognition

Reading Comprehension

Summary

Intervention Plan

3. Strategies to Improve Performance Skills

Verbal Expression

Handwriting and Copying

Spelling

Written Expression

Test Taking

Appropriate Social Behavior

Summary

Intervention Plan

Part II: The Special Education Referral Process


4. Referral and Eligibility

Documentation of Adaptations

The Referral Process

The Evaluation Process

Parents’ Rights

Eligibility and Specific Learning Disabilities

Summary

5. The Individualized Education Program

Intent of the IEP

IEP Meeting

Content of the IEP Document

The Positive Behavioral Intervention Plan

Placement in Alternative Education Setting

Reviews and Reevaluations

Summary

6. Options for Service Delivery

Continuum of Program Options

Service Delivery Models

Strategies and Programs for School Sites

Summary

Afterword

Glossary

Resource A: Characteristics and Criteria for Identifying Students With Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Attentional Disorders, and Behavioral Problems

Resource B: Selected Internet Sites

Resource C: Agencies and Organizations

Selected References

Index

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