The social dimensions of learning disabilities
Subtitle: essays in honor of Tanis Bryan
By: edited by Bernice Y.L. Wong, Mavis L. Donahue
Contributors: Bryan, Tanis H., 1937-; Wong, Bernice Y. L; Donahue, Mavis
Series: The LEA series of special education and disability; LEA series on special education and disability
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Learning disabled children -- Education; Learning disabilities -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: How to start a revolution / Mavis L. Donahue and Vernice Y. L. Wong; title: Social cognition in learning disabilities / Hana Tur-Kaspa; title: Development of self-understanding and self-esteem in children and adults with learning disabilities / Merith Cosden, Catherine Brown, and Katherine Elliott; title: The loneliness experience of children with learning disabilities / Malka Margalit and Michal Al-Yagon; title: Students with learning disabilities and their classroom companions / Ruth Pearl; title: Friendship and social adjustment of children with learning disablities / Judith Wiener; title: Preparing prospective teachers to work in social and emotional worlds of students with learning disabilities / Mary Bay; title: Parental understanding of children with language/learning disablities and its role in the creation of scaffolding opportunities / C. Addison Stone, Kathleen Bradley, and Jordi Kleiner; title: Bibliotherapy : practices for improving self-concept and reading comprehension / Dheepa Sridhar and Sharon Vaughn; title: Children and adolescents with learning disabilities : case studies of social relations in inclusive classrooms / Nancy L. Hutchinson, John G. Freeman, and Karin Steiner Bell; title: Models of longitudinal research: implications for the study of social dimensions of learning disablities / Barbara K. Keogh