Rethinking Learning Disabilities

Understanding Children Who Struggle in School

Deborah Paula Waber (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

241 Seiten

2010
Guilford Publications (Verlag)
978-1-60623-565-2 (ISBN)

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Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it. Leading researcher and clinician Deborah Waber offers an alternative to the prevailing view of learning disability as a problem contained within the child. Instead, she shows how learning difficulties are best understood as a function of the developmental interaction between the child and the world. Integrating findings from education, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, she offers a novel approach with direct practical implications. Detailed real-world case studies illustrate how this approach can promote positive outcomes for children who struggle in school.

Deborah P. Waber, PhD, is Senior Associate in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA. Her research includes innovative work on the development of children with learning and attention disorders and large-scale studies of the typical development of schoolchildren. Dr. Waber has published peer-reviewed studies on topics including neuropsychological effects of therapy in childhood cancer patients and outcomes in children with neurogenetic disorders, prematurity, and early malnutrition. In addition to her research work, she has a clinical practice as Senior Neuropsychologist in the Learning Disabilities Program in the Department of Neurology at Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is also actively engaged in clinical training and mentoring young investigators

Part 1. The Developmental Approach to Learning Disabilities. 1. The Dilemma: What Is a Learning Disability? 2. A Learning Disability Is a Developmental Problem. 3. A Developmental Science Perspective on Learning Disabilities. 4. A Lifespan Perspective on Learning Disabilities. 5. Identifying Learning Disabilities: Insights from a Developmental Approach. 6. Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience: Automatic and Effortful Processing. Part 2. Diagnosing the Child-World Interaction. 7. Identical Twins. 8. An Adequate Achiever with Learning Problems. 9. Beyond a "Reading Problem." 10. Learning-Disabled Children Grown Up. 11. A Developmental Strategy for Resolving the Dilemma. Appendix: Publications of the Children's Hospital Boston Learning Disabilities Program.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.4.2010
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-60623-565-6 / 1606235656
ISBN-13	978-1-60623-565-2 / 9781606235652
Zustand	Neuware