| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-272) and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Who Are Special Needs Students? -- Can Brain Research Help? -- Understanding the Effects of Poverty -- What Is in This Book? -- A Note About Effect Size -- A Word of Caution -- 1. The Brain and Learning -- Some Exterior Parts of the Brain -- Lobes of the Brain -- Motor Cortex and Somatosensory Cortex -- Cerebellum -- Some Interior Parts of the Brain -- Brainstem -- Limbic System -- Cerebrum -- Brain Cells -- Learning and Retention -- A Look at Memory Systems -- Implications for Students With Learning Disabilities -- Rehearsal -- Learning Motor Skills -- How Different Are the Brains of Today's Students? -- The Search for Novelty -- Have Schools Changed to Deal With This Different Brain? -- Difficulties With Sleep -- Sleep Deprivation -- Effects on Memory -- Sleep Disorders -- 2. When Learning Difficulties Arise -- Research Examines Learning Difficulties -- Possible Causes of Learning Difficulties -- Gender Differences -- What Forms of Instruction Are Most Effective? -- Misconceptions About Learning Difficulties -- Gifted Children With Learning Difficulties -- Response to Intervention -- Key Elements of Response to Intervention -- Helping Students Become Strategic Learners -- What Is Learning? -- Learning Difficulties of Students -- What Are Learning Strategies? -- How Important Is Self-Esteem? -- Strategies to Consider -- 3. Attention Disorders -- Research Findings -- What Is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)? -- What Causes ADHD? -- Is ADHD Inherited? -- Other Possible Causes -- Is ADHD on the Increase? -- Is It Possible to Have ADHD-like Behavior and Not Have ADHD? -- The Future of ADHD Research and Treatment -- What Educators Need to Consider -- Strategies to Consider -- 4. Speech Difficulties -- Learning Spoken Language -- Is Language Prewired in the Brain? -- Speech and Language Patterns by Age -- Putting the Language Components Together -- Problems in Learning Spoken Language -- Speech and Language Problems With Children and Adolescents -- Language Deficits and Learning a Second Language -- The Future of Speech-Language Disorders Research -- What Educators Need to Consider -- Strategies to Consider -- 5. Reading Disabilities -- Learning to Read -- Is Reading a Natural Ability? -- Spoken Language and Reading -- Three Phases of Learning to Read -- Decoding and Comprehension -- Difficulties in Learning to Read -- Social and Cultural Causes of Reading Problems -- Physical Causes of Reading Problems -- Is Dyslexia Present in Readers of Other Languages? -- Detecting Reading Problems -- Spoken Language Difficulties -- Early Indicators of Reading Problems -- What Educators Need to Consider -- Remember the Strengths of Struggling Readers -- What Teachers Should Know About Teaching Reading -- What Beginning Readers Need to Learn -- Some Effective Reading Intervention Programs -- Assistive Technology for Students With Dyslexia -- Dyslexia May Impart Other Cognitive Strengths -- Strategies to Consider -- 6. Writing Disabilities -- Is This Chapter Even Relevant? -- Learning to Write -- Difficulties in Writing -- Environmental Causes -- Neurological Causes -- Dysgraphia -- What Educators Need to Consider -- Characteristics of Good Writing -- Helping Students With Dysgraphia -- Strategies to Consider -- 7. Mathematical Disabilities -- Learning to Calculate -- Numerical Reasoning and Language -- Gender Differences in Mathematics -- Difficulties in Mathematics -- Dyscalculia -- The Future of Research in Mathematics Disorders -- What Educators Need to Consider -- Determining the Source of the Problem -- Diagnostic Tools for Assessing Learning Difficulties in Mathematics -- Other Considerations -- Strategies to Consider -- 8. Emotional and Behavioral Disorders -- Emotions, Behavior, and Learning -- Pathways of Emotional Signals -- Different Brain Areas for Different Emotions -- First Survival and Emotions, Then the Textbook -- Emotional and Behavioral Disorders -- Anxiety Disorders -- Depressive Disorders -- Other Emotional and Behavioral Disorders -- Impact of Childhood Abuse -- The Future of Research in Emotional and Behavioral Disorders -- What Educators Need to Consider -- Bullying -- School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) -- Strategies to Consider -- 9. Autism Spectrum Disorder -- Multiple Conditions on One Spectrum -- What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder? -- The Future of Research on Autism Spectrum Disorders -- What Educators Need to Consider -- Strategies to Consider -- 10. Putting It All Together -- Helping Students With Learning Difficulties -- Identifying Students With Learning Difficulties -- Accommodating Students With Learning Difficulties -- Motivating Students With Learning Difficulties -- Communicating With Parents -- Future Trends in Special Education. |
| Summary |
In this book, author David A. Sousa presents readers with the third edition of his comprehensive guide to teaching students with a wide spectrum of learning challenges and disabilities. He covers the brain and learning, learning difficulties, attention disorders, speech difficulties, reading disabilities, writing disabilities, mathematical disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, autism spectrum disorders, and a wide variety of other related subjects over the book's ten chapters. Sousa is an international consultant in educational neuroscience based in the United States. --Publisher. |
| Subject |
Learning disabled children -- Education.
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Learning.
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Cognition in children.
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Cognition in children. (OCoLC)fst00866501
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Learning. (OCoLC)fst00994826
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Learning disabled children -- Education.
(OCoLC)fst00994943
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| Other Form: |
Ebook version : 9781506341408 |
| ISBN |
9781506327020 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1506327028 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781506341408 (ebook) |
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