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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 |2 pages
Adolescents with Learning Difficulties
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 |2 pages
Asperger, or Asperger's, Syndrome
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
Autistic Spectrum Disorders
chapter |1 pages
Avoidance Behaviour
part |4 pages
B
chapter |1 pages
Behaviour Analysis
chapter |1 pages
Behaviour Management
chapter |2 pages
Behavioural and Emotional Difficulties
chapter |1 pages
Behavioural Teaching Methods
chapter |1 pages
Behavioural Theories of Learning
chapter |1 pages
Benchmarks and Benchmarking
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 |2 pages
Children with Learning Difficulties
chapter |1 pages
Children at Risk
chapter |2 pages
Children with Specific Learning Difficulties (spld)
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 |2 pages
Code of Practice (cop) (revised 2001)
chapter |1 pages
Cognitive Abilities
chapter |1 pages
Cognitive Strategies
chapter |2 pages
Cognitive-behavioural Theories of Learning
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
Constructivist Theory of Learning
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
chapter |1 pages
Curriculum-based Assessment
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
Diagnostic-prescriptive Teaching
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 |1 pages
Down's Syndrome or down Syndrome
chapter |2 pages
Dynamic Assessment
chapter |1 pages
Dyscalculia
chapter |2 pages
Dysgraphia
chapter |3 pages
Dyslexia
chapter |1 pages
Dyspraxia or Developmental Dyspraxia
part |5 pages
E
chapter |1 pages
Early Intervention
chapter |1 pages
Early Intervention Strategies
chapter |2 pages
Early Signs
chapter |1 pages
Emergent Literacy
chapter |2 pages
Emotional and Behavioural Factors
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
chapter |1 pages
Expressive Language Disorder
chapter |1 pages
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation
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
part |6 pages
I
chapter |1 pages
Iep (individual Education Plan)
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
Language and Language Skills
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
Pause, Prompt, Praise (ppp) Strategy
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 |1 pages
Phonological Awareness Training
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 |2 pages
Reception Language Disorders
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
School Action and School Action plus
chapter |1 pages
Scotopic Sensitivity or Irlen Syndrome (tinted Lenses)
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 |1 pages
Social Constructivist Theory
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
Specific Learning Disabilities (spld)
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
Vakt (visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic and Tactile Learning)
chapter |1 pages
Vision Impairment
chapter |1 pages
Visual Acuity
chapter |1 pages
Visual Discrimination
chapter |1 pages
Visual Imaging
chapter |1 pages
Visual Perceptual and Motor Difficulties
chapter |1 pages
Vocabulary
part |4 pages
W
chapter |1 pages
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (wisc)
chapter |2 pages
Whole Language Approach
chapter |1 pages
Withdrawal Model of Support
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