ABSTRACT

Accessing up-to-date information about general and specific learning difficulties is made easy, with this indispensable reference book. Covering difficulties that relate to children, adolescents and adults, it includes:

  • crucial legislation to keep practitioners 'in the know'
  • useful addresses, telephone numbers and websites

It also includes explanations of leaning difficulties including those less than well-known syndromes such as semantic pragmatic difficulties.

part |10 pages

A

chapter |1 pages

Abc

chapter |1 pages

Absence

chapter |2 pages

Absences(petit Mal)

chapter |1 pages

Academic Skills Disorders

chapter |1 pages

Achievement

chapter |2 pages

Add/adhd

chapter |1 pages

Affective Factors

chapter |1 pages

Agraphia

chapter |1 pages

Alexia

chapter |1 pages

Anxiety

chapter |1 pages

Aphasia

chapter |1 pages

Apraxia

chapter |1 pages

Assessment

chapter |1 pages

Attentional Difficulties

chapter |1 pages

Attitudes

chapter |1 pages

Attribution

chapter |1 pages

Attribution Retraining

chapter |1 pages

Attribution Theory

chapter |1 pages

Attributional Style

chapter |1 pages

Auditory Processing

chapter |2 pages

Autism

chapter |1 pages

Avoidance Behaviour

part |4 pages

B

chapter |1 pages

Behaviour Analysis

chapter |1 pages

Behaviour Management

chapter |1 pages

Birth Problems

chapter |1 pages

Brain Damage

chapter |2 pages

Brain-injured Children

chapter |1 pages

Broca's Aphasia

part |9 pages

C

chapter |1 pages

Calculator Use

chapter |1 pages

Children at Risk

chapter |1 pages

Chromosomal Abnormalities

chapter |1 pages

Class Size

chapter |1 pages

Classroom Environment

chapter |1 pages

Clinical Teaching

chapter |1 pages

Cloze Procedure

chapter |1 pages

Cognitive Abilities

chapter |1 pages

Cognitive Strategies

chapter |1 pages

Collaborative Learning

chapter |1 pages

Communication Skills

chapter |1 pages

Comprehension

chapter |1 pages

Computational Skills

chapter |2 pages

Computer-assisted Learning

chapter |1 pages

Confidence

chapter |1 pages

Contextual Cues

chapter |2 pages

Co-teaching

chapter |1 pages

Counting Skills

chapter |1 pages

Criterion-referenced Tests

chapter |2 pages

Curriculum

part |9 pages

D

chapter |1 pages

Deaf Pupils

chapter |1 pages

Decoding

chapter |1 pages

Deficit Model

chapter |2 pages

Depression

chapter |1 pages

Developmental Delay

chapter |1 pages

Developmental Psychology

chapter |1 pages

Diagnostic Assessment

chapter |1 pages

Diagnostic Tests

chapter |1 pages

Differentiation

chapter |1 pages

Difficulty Level

chapter |1 pages

Direct Instruction

chapter |1 pages

Directed Reading Activity

chapter |1 pages

Discrepancy Formulae

chapter |1 pages

Distractibility

chapter |2 pages

Dynamic Assessment

chapter |1 pages

Dyscalculia

chapter |2 pages

Dysgraphia

chapter |3 pages

Dyslexia

part |5 pages

E

chapter |1 pages

Early Intervention

chapter |2 pages

Early Signs

chapter |1 pages

Emergent Literacy

chapter |1 pages

Epilepsy

chapter |1 pages

Error Analysis

chapter |1 pages

Expectancy-value Theory

chapter |1 pages

Explanatory Style

chapter |1 pages

Explicit Teaching

part |2 pages

F

chapter |1 pages

Failure

chapter |1 pages

Feedback

chapter |1 pages

Forgetting

chapter |2 pages

Formative Assessment

chapter |1 pages

Fragile X Syndrome

part |2 pages

G

chapter |1 pages

Generalisation

chapter |1 pages

Genetics

chapter |2 pages

Group Work

chapter |1 pages

Guided Reading

part |1 pages

H

chapter |1 pages

Handwriting

chapter |1 pages

Health

chapter |1 pages

Home Environment

part |6 pages

I

chapter |1 pages

Inadequate Teaching

chapter |1 pages

In-class Support

chapter |3 pages

Inclusion

chapter |2 pages

Intellectual Disability

chapter |1 pages

Intelligence

chapter |1 pages

Intervention Programmes

chapter |2 pages

Iq

part |1 pages

J

chapter |1 pages

Knowledge Acquisition

part |5 pages

L

chapter |1 pages

Language

chapter |1 pages

Language Delay

chapter |2 pages

Language Disorders

chapter |1 pages

Learned Helplessness

chapter |1 pages

Learning Difficulties

chapter |1 pages

Learning Styles

chapter |1 pages

Learning Theories

chapter |1 pages

Locus of Control

chapter |1 pages

Long-term Memory

part |4 pages

M

chapter |1 pages

Malnutrition

chapter |2 pages

Mathematical Difficulties

chapter |1 pages

Maths Anxiety

chapter |1 pages

Metacognition

chapter |2 pages

Metacognitive Training

chapter |1 pages

Meta-memory

chapter |1 pages

Miscue Analysis

chapter |1 pages

Motivation

chapter |1 pages

Motivational Style

chapter |1 pages

Motor Skills Learning

chapter |1 pages

Multi-sensory Environment

chapter |1 pages

Multi-sensory Teaching

part |1 pages

N

chapter |1 pages

Naming-speed Deficits

chapter |1 pages

National Literacy Strategy

chapter |1 pages

Noise and Learning

part |2 pages

O

chapter |1 pages

Observational Learning

chapter |1 pages

On-task Behaviour

chapter |1 pages

Operant Conditioning

chapter |1 pages

Orthographic Units

chapter |1 pages

Overlearning

part |7 pages

P

chapter |1 pages

Paired Reading / Writing

chapter |2 pages

Parents

chapter |1 pages

Peer Group Pressure

chapter |1 pages

Peer Tutoring

chapter |1 pages

Perceptual Difficulties

chapter |1 pages

Phonemic Awareness

chapter |1 pages

Phonic Skills

chapter |1 pages

Phonics

chapter |2 pages

Phonological Awareness

chapter |2 pages

Portage Scheme

chapter |1 pages

Portfolio Assessment

chapter |1 pages

Poverty

chapter |1 pages

Practice

chapter |2 pages

Precision Teaching

chapter |1 pages

Prevalence

chapter |1 pages

P-scales Or Levels

chapter |1 pages

Psychomotor Skills

part |1 pages

Q

chapter |1 pages

Questioning Strategies

part |6 pages

R

chapter |1 pages

Rating Scales

chapter |1 pages

Readability Level

chapter |2 pages

Reading Assessment

chapter |1 pages

Reading Comprehension

chapter |2 pages

Reading Difficulties

chapter |1 pages

Reading Recovery

chapter |1 pages

Reading Strategies

chapter |1 pages

Reciprocal Teaching

chapter |1 pages

Reinforcement

chapter |2 pages

Remedial Support

chapter |1 pages

Resilience

chapter |1 pages

Resource Rooms

chapter |2 pages

Resource Teachers

chapter |1 pages

Retrieval

chapter |1 pages

Rote-learning

chapter |1 pages

Running Records

part |12 pages

S

chapter |1 pages

Scaffolding

chapter |1 pages

Screening

chapter |1 pages

Second Language Learners

chapter |1 pages

Self-concept

chapter |1 pages

Self-correction

chapter |2 pages

Self-esteem

chapter |1 pages

Self-handicapping

chapter |2 pages

Self-injurious Behaviour

chapter |1 pages

Self-monitoring

chapter |1 pages

Sensory Impairment

chapter |1 pages

Separate Classes

chapter |1 pages

Shaping

chapter |2 pages

Shared Book Experience

chapter |1 pages

Short-term Memory

chapter |1 pages

Sight Vocabulary

chapter |2 pages

Silent Sustained Reading

chapter |1 pages

Skills-based Approach

chapter |2 pages

Social Learning Theory

chapter |1 pages

Social Skills Difficulties

chapter |1 pages

Soft Neurological Signs

chapter |2 pages

Special Educational Needs

chapter |1 pages

Speech Disorders

chapter |1 pages

Spelling Difficulties

chapter |2 pages

Stages in Learning

chapter |1 pages

Standardised Tests

chapter |1 pages

Statement

chapter |1 pages

Statutory Assessment

chapter |1 pages

Stereotyped Behaviour

chapter |1 pages

Strategy Training

chapter |1 pages

Subtypes

chapter |1 pages

Syndrome

chapter |1 pages

Synthetic Phonics

part |4 pages

T

chapter |1 pages

Targets

chapter |1 pages

Task Analysis

chapter |1 pages

Teacher Expectancy

chapter |1 pages

Teaching Methods

chapter |1 pages

Tests and Testing

chapter |2 pages

Text-processing Problems

chapter |1 pages

Theories of Learning

chapter |1 pages

Time Management

chapter |1 pages

Transition Plan

chapter |1 pages

Truancy

part |1 pages

U

chapter |1 pages

Underachievement

part |2 pages

V

chapter |1 pages

Vision Impairment

chapter |1 pages

Visual Acuity

chapter |1 pages

Visual Discrimination

chapter |1 pages

Visual Imaging

chapter |1 pages

Vocabulary

part |4 pages

W

chapter |2 pages

Whole Language Approach

chapter |1 pages

Word Blindness

chapter |1 pages

Word Processing

chapter |1 pages

Word Recognition

chapter |1 pages

Working Memory

chapter |1 pages

Writing Difficulties

part |1 pages

Z