Handbook of learning disabilities

Foundations and Current Perspectives

Causes and Behavioral Manifestations

Domain-Specific Instruction/Intervention Research

General Instructional Models

Measurement and Methodology.

Foundations and Current Perspectives

Overview of foundations, causes, instruction, and methodology in the field of learning disabilities / H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham

Brief history of the field of learning disabilities / Daniel P. Hallahan, Devery R. Mock

Classification and definition of learning disabilities: an integrative perspective / Jack M. Fletcher, Robin D. Morris, G. Reid Lyon

Learning disabilities and the law / Cynthia M. Herr, Barbara D. Bateman

Learning disability as a discipline / Kenneth A. Kavale, Steven R. Forness

English-language learners with learning disabilities / Russell Gersten, Scott Baker

Searching for the most effective service delivery model for students with learning disabilities / Naomi Zigmond

Causes and Behavioral Manifestations

Attention: relationships between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities / Laurie E. Cutting, Martha Bridge Denckla

RAN's contribution to understanding reading disabilities / Patricia Greig Bowers, Galit Ishaik

Basic cognitive processes and reading disabilities / Linda S. Siegel

Memory difficulties in children and adults with learning disabilities / H. Lee Swanson, Leilani Saez

Learning disabilities in arithmetic: problem-solving differences and cognitive deficits / David C. Geary

Language processes: keys to reading disability / Virginia A. Mann

Self-concept and students with learning disabilities / Batya Elbaum, Sharon Vaughn

Neurological correlates of reading disabilities / Carlin J. Miller, Juliana Sanchez, George W. Hynd

Genetic influences on reading and writing disabilities / Jennifer B. Thomson, Wendy H. Raskind

Effective Instruction

Effective remediation of word identification and decoding difficulties in school-age children with reading disabilities / Maureen W. Lovett, Roderick W. Barron, Nancy J. Benson

Teaching text structure to improve reading comprehension / Joanna P. Williams

Enhancing the mathematical problem solving of students with mathematics disabilities / Lynn S. Fuchs, Douglas Fuchs

Students with learning disabilities and the process of writing: a meta-analysis of SRSD studies / Steve Graham, Karen R. Harris

Preventing written expression disabilities through early and continuing assessment and intervention for handwriting and/or spelling problems : research into practice / Virginia W. Berninger, Dagmar Amtmann

Science and social studies / Thomas E. Scruggs, Margo A. Mastropieri

Formation of Instructional Models

Cognitive strategies instruction research in learning disabilities / Bernice Y. L. Wong ... [et al.]

Direct instruction / Gary Adams, Douglas Carnine

Cooperative learning for students with learning disabilities: evidence from experiments, observations, and interviews / Joseph R. Jenkins, Rollanda E. O'Connor

Identifying children at risk for reading failure: curriculum-based measurement and the dual-discrepancy approach / Douglas Fuchs ... [et al.]

Sociocultural model in special education interventions: apprenticing students in higher-order thinking / Carol Sue Englert, Troy Mariage

Methodology

Exploratory and confirmatory methods in learning disabilities research / Robert D. Abbott, Dagmar Amtmann, Jeff Munson

Designs for applied educational research / Jean B. Schumaker, Donald D. Deshler

Methods of cluster analysis and the study of learning disabilities / Deborah L. Speece

Neurobiological indices of dyslexia / Sally E. Shaywitz, Bennett A. Shaywitz.