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Off Track - When Poor Readers Become ""Learning Disabled"" (Paperback, Revised)
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Off Track - When Poor Readers Become ""Learning Disabled"" (Paperback, Revised)
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The identification of poor readers as "learning disabled" can be
the first of many steps toward consigning students to a lifetime of
reading failure. The very label that is meant to help children
often becomes a burden that works against effective learning
throughout their schooling. In this book, the authors identify the
dangers of labeling children as reading or learning disabled,
contending that a "reading disability" is not a unitary phenomenon.
In order to diagnose and help children, educators and parents need
to understand the multiple sources of reading difficulty before
they can choose appropriate means to correct it. Drawing on recent
research in cognitive psychology, the authors present a new
theoretical model of reading disability that integrates a wide
variety of findings across age and grade spans. Laid out in terms
that are readily comprehensible to parents and practitioners, the
model outlines the phases that are characteristic of the path to
proficient reading, then describes four ways in which disabled
readers may stray from this path. The key to the authors' work lies
in the fact that youngsters who stray from the path of typical
reading acquisition often are not distinguishable from other
children who are classified as "poor readers" rather than as
"learning disabled." This model is an especially useful one for
practitioners because it both provides a broader view of reading
disability than have many previous models and shows how reading
disability relates to typical reading acquisition. Using
illustrative case studies, the authors describe the four patterns
of reading disability, explain how to properly assess them, and
suggest ways to conquer them.
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