Interventions in Learning Disabilities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Rachel Schiff, R. Malatesha Joshi

   Pages 1-8

3. Critical Components of Phonemic Awareness Instruction and Intervention: Recommendations for Teacher Training and for Future Research

   • Stephanie Al Otaiba, Jill Allor, Krystal L. Werfel, Nathan Clemens

   Pages 9-27

4. Word Reading Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties and Disabilities

   • Carolyn A. Denton, Keri M. Madsen

   Pages 29-45

5. A Cognitive and Linguistic Approach to Predicting and Remediating Word Reading Difficulties in Young Readers

   • Shelley Shaul, Tami Katzir, Liron Primor, Orly Lipka

   Pages 47-66

6. The Efficiency of Metacognitive and Metalinguistic Awareness in Word Spelling Among Hebrew Speaking Children with SLI: An Intervention Study

   • Rachel Schiff, Ayelet Sasson, Yoci Nuri, Elisheva Ben-Artzi

   Pages 67-89

7. Intervention and Assessment of Spelling Skills in LD Classrooms

   • R. Malatesha Joshi

   Pages 91-103

8. Seizing the Sounds: Considering Phonological Awareness in the Context of Vocabulary Instruction

   • Carolyn H. Strom, Susan B. Neuman

   Pages 105-118

9. Effective Strategies for Developing Reading Comprehension

   • Meenakshi Gajria, Asha K. Jitendra

   Pages 119-137

10. Using Advances in Cognitive Science to Improve Students Study Skills and Reading Comprehension

    • Tenaha O’Reilly, John Sabatini

    Pages 139-158

11. What Is Listening Comprehension and What Does It Take to Improve Listening Comprehension?

    • Young-Suk Grace Kim, Heather Pilcher

    Pages 159-173

12. Best Practices in Writing Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities

    • Amy Gillespie Rouse, Steve Graham

    Pages 175-190

13. Language and Literacy Interventions for ELs with LD: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

    • Sylvia Linan-Thompson, Hermelinda Cavazos, Laura McFarland, Julie Martinez

    Pages 191-205

14. A Research-Validated Program for Improving At-Risk Students’ Fraction Magnitude Understanding, Word-Problem Solving, and Explanations

    • Amelia S. Malone, Lynn S. Fuchs, Douglas Fuchs

    Pages 207-225

15. Working Memory and Strategy Instruction in Children with Learning Disabilities

    • H. Lee Swanson

    Pages 227-241

16. Training of Cognitive Control in Developmental Disorders: Pitfalls and Promises

    • Lilach Shalev, Natalie Kataev, Carmel Mevorach

    Pages 243-254

17. New Directions in Preservice and Inservice Professional Development for Teaching Students with and Without Specific Learning Disabilities in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence

    • Virginia W. Berninger, R. Malatesha Joshi

    Pages 255-274

This book reviews systematic training programs that are designed to enhance the language, reading, literacy and cognitive skills of individuals with Learning Disabilities in various disciplines. Most titles on Learning Disabilities intervention often focus on the linguistic area of the disability, while there are many more areas of difficulty. Students with learning disabilities struggle with such as math, cognitive abilities, and organizational skills. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book encompasses a wide variety of remedial treatments and therapies developed by expert researchers and scholars in the Learning Disabilities area.

• Learning disabilities
• Language disorders
• Word reading interventions
• Young readers
• Metacognitive and Metalinguistic awareness in word spelling
• Developing reading comprehension
• Language and literacy interventions for ELs with LD
• literary diction

• School of Education, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, Ramat Gan, Israel

  Rachel Schiff

• College of Education & Human Development, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  R. Malatesha Joshi

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