Rethinking Learning Disabilities

Understanding Children Who Struggle in School

Deborah Paula Waber (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

241 Seiten

2011
Guilford Press (Verlag)
978-1-4625-0334-6 (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 Paula Waber, PhD, is Senior Associate in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. 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 related 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. She is also actively engaged in clinical training and mentoring young investigators.

I. 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: A Developmental Approach 6. Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience: Automatic and Effortful Processing II. 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 Research Center

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4625-0334-9 / 1462503349
ISBN-13	978-1-4625-0334-6 / 9781462503346
Zustand	Neuware