Educational Alternatives for Students with Learning Disabilities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Oral Language

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Preschool Language Intervention in the Classroom: Rationale and Organizational Structure

      • Diane Paul-Brown

      Pages 3-42

   3. Linguistic Transitions in Children and Adolescents with Language Learning Disabilities: Characteristics and Training

      • Elisabeth H. Wiig

      Pages 43-63

3. Academic Skills Instruction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Beginning Reading Instruction for Reading Disabled and At-Risk Students

      • Diana Brewster Clark

      Pages 67-90

   3. Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Written Language for Learning Disabled Students

      • Steve Graham, Karen B. Harris

      Pages 91-115

   4. Effective Interventions: Using Both Hemispheres in Math

      • Joyce Steeves

      Pages 117-138

4. On the Cutting Edge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. In the Spirit of Strategies Instruction: Cognitive and Metacognitive Aspects of the Strategies Intervention Model

      • B. Keith Lenz

      Pages 141-158

   3. Using Computers to Assist in Reading Instruction for Children with Learning Disabilities

      • Joseph K. Torgesen, Neal M. Horen

      Pages 159-181

   4. Social Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities: Towards a Broader Perspective

      • Sharon Vaughn, Ruth McIntosh, Nina Zaragoza

      Pages 183-198

   5. The Gifted/Learning Disabled: An Oxymoron?

      • Ruth B. Spodak

      Pages 199-215

5. Back Matter

   Pages 217-228

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Educational Alternatives for Students with Learning Disabilities responds to the pressing need to provide teachers of learning-disabled students with practical knowledge regarding state-of-the-art intervention strat- egies. This book provides examples of validated alternative educational practices which avoid the pitfalls and stigmatizing effects on students of older models of intervention. The new practices aim to maximize teaching effectiveness and to assist the learning disabled in achieving their potential. The intervention strategies described in this book have the power to enhance the efforts of all concerned.

• At-Risk Students
• ETA
• children
• computer
• education
• intervention
• knowledge
• language
• learning
• learning disabilities
• linguistics
• organization
• organizations
• state
• teaching

• Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA

  Susan A. Vogel

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