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Taking on a Learning Disability - At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning (Hardcover, New)
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Taking on a Learning Disability - At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning (Hardcover, New)
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In the United States, approximately 2.5 million students are
diagnosed as having a learning disability and the majority of those
children are placed in special education because of an inability to
read as expected. As a result of this diagnosis, these children may
be placed in special education classrooms - classrooms that are
separate from the `mainstream' population. For children with
learning disabilities, there is likely no place, other than in
school, where a student's inability to read as expected leads to
this separation from his/her peers. Once school is over, these
children play alongside the kids in their neighbourhoods,
participate in sports teams, and attend community activities. This
book looks at the impact of being labelled as learning disabled and
separated from peers in school through the eyes of Samson, a middle
school student described both as learning disabled and a
non-reader. This qualitative case study explores how Samson, his
family, his teachers and this researcher make sense of special
education and the complexities of learning to read as an
adolescent. Throughout this book, there is a contrasting of the
laws and procedures designed to guide special education, with the
actual experiences of those impacted by these laws and procedures.
Through the three years that Samson was in middle school, this book
investigates his perspective on his classes, his interpretation of
what it means to `be' a student in special education, and the
process by which he learns to read. How disability gets created,
contested, and discussed is highlighted through the many contexts
that allow disability to be recognised and to fade into the
background.
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