Learning Disabilities

Education can be challenging -- but it's even harder if you have a learning disability.

  • What are learning disabilities?
  • How are learning disabilities detected and treated?
  • What strategies are effective in educating those with learning disabilities?
  • What can adults with learning disabilities do to cope?

The following books and articles are completely free to read in their entirety from August 30, 2002, through September 6, 2002, with a free trial account.


  Our Labeled Children: What Every Parent and Teacher Needs to Know about Learning Disabilities
       by Robert J. Sternberg & Elena L. Grigorenko
  Issues in Educating Students with Disabilities
       edited by John Wills
  Facing Learning Disabilities in the Adult Years
       by Joan Shapiro & Rebecca Rich
  Off Track: When Poor Readers Become "Learning Disabled"
       by Louise Spear-Swerling & Robert J. Sternberg
  Learning Disability: The Imaginary Disease
       by Thomas G. Finlan
  Handbook of Cognitive, Social, and Neuropsychological Aspects of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 1
       edited by Stephen J. Ceci
  Handbook of Cognitive, Social, and Neuropsychological Aspects of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 2
       edited by Stephen J. Ceci

 

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