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Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

By: Jim Ysseldyke, Bob Algozzine

The concise guide to successfully teaching students with learning disabilities!

This compact resource describes the characteristics associated with learning disabilities, and offers practical teaching strategies to increase students' success rate in and outside the classroom. Highlights include:

A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of learning disabilities
Cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics associated with learning disabilities
Strategies to improve the work habits and study skills of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD
Highly effective methods for improving students' performance in reading, writing, and mathematics
Key vocabulary terms

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412939027
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 120
Publication date: March 24, 2006

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The concise guide to successfully teaching students with learning disabilities!

What is to be done to help a student who does not have an obvious special education condition, but whose expected achievement on certain academic tasks falls short of his or her actual achievement-despite evidence-based instruction? Let Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities be your guide! This compact resource describes the characteristics associated with learning disabilities, and offers practical teaching strategies proven to increase the success rate of these students both in and outside the classroom.

Highlights include:

A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of the nature of learning disabilities and how they are best addressed
Cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics that are associated with learning disabilities
Strategies to improve the work habits and study skills of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD
Highly effective methods for improving the performance of students with learning disabilities in reading, writing, and mathematics
Key vocabulary terms

A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher: The 13-Book Collection
This collection equips educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring-and meeting-their fullest potential..

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Key features

Practical, accessible, research-based information and advice distilled from a highly-successful textbook
Numerous case studies
Practical, age-appropriate strategies for the classroom
Reflection/professional development exercises
Resources – books, articles, organizations
Linked to IDEA 2004

Author(s)

Jim Ysseldyke

Jim Ysseldyke, Ph.D., is Birkmaier Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, director of the School Psychology Program, and director of the Center for Reading Research at the University of Minnesota. Widely requested as a staff developer and conference speaker, Ysseldyke brings more than 30 years of research and teaching experience to educational professionals around the globe.

As the former director of the federally funded National Center on Educational Outcomes, Ysseldyke conducted research and provided technical support that helped to boost the academic performance of students with disabilities and improve school assessment techniques nationally. Today, he continues to work to improve the education of students with disabilities.

The author of more than 300 publications on special education and school psychology, Ysseldyke is best known for his textbooks on assessment, effective instruction, issues in special education, and other cutting-edge areas of education and school psychology. With A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher, Ysseldyke seeks to equip educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring—and meeting—all their potentials.

Bob Algozzine

Bob Algozzine is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina and project codirector of the U.S. Department of Education-supported Behavior and Reading Improvement Center. With 25 years of research experience and extensive firsthand knowledge of teaching students classified as seriously emotionally disturbed, Algozzine is a uniquely qualified staff developer, conference speaker, and teacher of behavior management and effective teaching courses. He is active in special education practice as a partner and collaborator with professionals in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and as an editor of several journals focused on special education. Algozzine has written more than 250 manuscripts on special education topics, including many books and textbooks on how to manage emotional and social behavior problems.

Table of Contents

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

1.What Are Learning Disabilities?

Criticism of the Definition

Criteria for Identification

2.How Common Are Learning Disabilities?

Rapid Growth in the Category

Explanations of the Category’s Growth

3.What Causes Learning Disabilities?

4.How Are Learning Disabilities Assessed?

What Is Unique About Learning Disability Assessments?

Trends in the Assessment Process

5.What Characteristics Are Associated With Learning Disabilities?

Cognitive

Academic

Physical

Behavioral

Communication

6.How Do Teachers Teach Students With Learning Disabilities?

Improving Basic Skills

Improving Classroom Behavior

Improving Social Relations

7.What Should Every Teacher Know About Learning Disabilities and ADHD?

Definitions of ADHD

Principles of Remediation

8.What Trends and Issues Influence How We Teach Students With Learning Disabilities?

A Changing Definition

Subtypes of Learning Disabilities

Definitions Vary by State

Transition Questions

9. Learning Disabilities in Perspective

10. What Have We Learned?

Key Points

Key Vocabulary

Self-Assessment II

Answer Key for Self-Assessments

On Your Own

Resources

Books

Journals & Articles

Organizations

References

Index

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