Download or read book Similarities and Differences in Social Perceptions of Learning Disabled Low achieving and Normally achieving Elementary School Children written by Laura Elizabeth Angevine McHam and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Dimensions of Learning Disabilities written by Bernice Y.L. Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together over 25 years of research into the social aspects of learning disabilities (LD), this book presents a range of topics that reflect on the richness of research interests in the discipline. In honor of Tanis Bryan, the pioneer in research on social competence of children with LD, the researchers that follow her lead systematically examine critical issues in the social relationships of these children. The book begins by placing the work of Bryan and her research associates' in context, in terms of the prevailing theoretical frameworks and social political influences that led to the enormous impact of the work. The chapters that follow discuss: *social cognition in children and adolescents with LD; *self-understanding and self-esteem in children and adults with LD; *the lonely plight, peer influence, and friendship patterns of children with LD; *parental understanding and how this understanding shapes their scaffolding of learning in their children with language disabilities; *a new intervention approach toward enhancing self-concept and reading comprehension in LD students through bibliotherapy; *important and timely information on interventions for enhancing peer relations and preventing drop-out in adolescents; *models in longitudinal research with implications for research on social dimensions of LD; and *the important role of teachers in enhancing classroom social experiences for students with LD. Summarizing research findings and their implications in the various areas in the field, this book will be an excellent text for a special topics course in graduate programs in learning disabilities, special education, psychology, and social work. In addition, it will be a highly important resource for university/college teachers, researchers, graduate and honors students, and professionals in learning disabilities, social psychology, and social work.
Download or read book Applied Social Psychology written by Frank W. Schneider and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introductory textbook that helps students understand how people think about, feel about, relate to, and influence one another.
Download or read book Interactive Influences of Perceived School Family and Peer Contexts on the Success of Urban Adolescents with Learning Disabilities written by Jane Elizabeth Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the effects of social influences in the lives of an ethnically diverse sample of fifth through eighth grade students with and without learning disabilities using survey data and academic achievement scores collected in nineteen Chicago Public Schools from 1993--1997. Cross-sectional analyses were employed to investigate the similarities and differences in student perceptions of school, family, and peer group contexts. In addition, longitudinal data were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling (HIM) in order to identify contextual influences on student academic achievement and mental health outcomes over time, as well as the interactions among these influences. Comparisons of responses from students with and without learning disabilities confirm and extend existing findings in the literature concerning LD student perceptions of their social environments. In addition, the social contexts of students' lives were found to have small, but significant, effects on their growth in academic achievement and mental health after the influences of family background, school placement, and LD status were taken into account. Mile students with and without learning disabilities had somewhat different views of their social contexts, the processes working within these environments appeared to affect them in similar ways. The results suggest that careful attention should be paid to the social contexts of students' lives when planning academic and mental health interventions. The potential for such interventions in students' social environments is discussed.
Download or read book Children With Learning Differences Exploring Artmaking to Address Deficit Laden Perspectives written by Christa Boske and published by IAP. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actively listening and building bridges among students, teachers, and communities provides learners with authentic opportunities to be involved, invested, and ignite meaningful change. This book celebrates students' first-tellings of their experiences as "students with differences" in schools. Throughout the authors' school experiences, they yearned for spaces to share their expertise, thoughts, ideas, talents, and aspirations. These authors emphasize the need to recognize student voice, which they contend, should permeate all levels of collaborative work in schools. These collaborations include, but are not limited to the integration of diverse assessments, differentiation, curriculum design, arts-based projects, inquiry, establishing school policies, and evaluating daily practices in schools. What students have to say matters. However, authors reiterate how often schools attempted to silence them, especially due to the label assigned to them: "disabled." How students learn matters. What students learn matters. Their untapped sense of wonderment plays a pertinent role in their growth and development. Together, these authors utilize artmaking to express how they navigate oppressive systems, such as school. They contend there is a need for K-12 students to co-create knowledge and build bridges among themselves, educators, families, and diverse communities. Their new ways of knowing through this artmaking process afforded them with a renewed relevance for learning and the need to promote authentic school reform. Bottom line: students matter. Their leadership, creativity, and capacity to think system-wide are essential to classroom, school, curriculum, and community needs. These young authors stress the need to continue this significant work and emphasize the power of student voice through artmaking. ENDORSEMENT: "This book reveals the hidden curriculum behind how students negotiate school environments that are often indifferent or even hostile to them. It demonstrates their resilience, their perceptions and how experiences in the arts inspire them to overcome the school environment which has silenced or marginalized them. The stories in these pages will inspire you and reinforce your belief in the human spirit." — Fenwick English, Florida Gulf Coast University
Download or read book Subtypes of Reading Disabled Children written by Jeannine Feldman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developmental Perspectives on Children With High incidence Disabilities written by Ronald Gallimore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, in honor of the career of Barbara K. Keogh, offers a summary of what is known of developmental contructs in the study of high incidence disabilities. Written for an audience of scholars, policy-makers, and grad students in special education
Download or read book Research on Classroom Ecologies written by Deborah L. Speece and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Handbook of Psychosocial Characteristics of Exceptional Children written by Vicki L. Schwean and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has documented the reciprocal effects of exceptionality and secondary psychosocial and behavioral characteristics. This in-depth handbook examines the categories of exceptionality most often described in educational, behavioral, and health practices. Leading authorities from psychology, education, and medicine evaluate the key characteristics of particular exceptionalities from the vantage point of theory, research, assessment, and intervention.
Download or read book Social Support Social Skills and Educational Setting and Their Relation to the Perceived Self Concept of Children with Learning Disabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined student-perceived teacher and classmate support, teacher- and peer-preferred social skills, and educational setting and their relation to student-perceived scholastic competence and social acceptance. Sixty children in fourth and fifth grades who were diagnosed with a learning disability (LD) in reading or written language participated in the study, as well as students' language arts teachers. Four research questions were posed. The first two questions asked whether educational setting was related to students' perceptions of teacher support and classmate support. The third question asked if student-perceived teacher support, teacher-preferred social skills, and educational setting were related to student-perceived scholastic competence. The last question asked whether student-perceived classmate support, peer-preferred social skills, and educational setting were related to student-perceived social acceptance. Two one-way ANOVAs indicated that student perceptions of teacher and classmate support were not related to educational setting. The third and fourth questions were answered using a parallel statistical procedure involving standard multiple regression analyses. Results indicated that social support and social skills were related to aspects of self-concept, and educational setting was related to self-concept. Implications of these findings regarding the role of school psychologists and the development of children with LD were discussed, emphasizing the importance of social processes within the classroom as well as how children with LD formulate their self-perceptions.
Download or read book The Voices of Young Adults With Learning Disabilities written by Candice Daiken and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classroom is a space in which students can participate in both academic and social experiences. Researchers suggest that students with learning disabilities may experience a sense of being different and isolated from their peers because of their learning differences (Alexander-Passe, 2008; Lackaye & Margalit, 2006). This qualitative research describes the perceptions of three young adults (aged 18-21) with learning disabilities (YALD) about their educational experiences in elementary and secondary school. Furthermore, this study identified academic, social, and interconnection of academic and social experiences from the participants' discussions. The lack of understanding about learning disabilities from teachers and peers, especially in elementary school, was a predominant theme in this study. The participants suggested that teachers should get to know the student rather than identifying characteristics of exceptionalities in order to help teachers better understand and work with students with learning disabilities.
Download or read book A Comparison of Learning Disabled and Academically Achieving Students on Written Language Samples written by Deborah S. Engelking and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Reading Research Tells Us About Children With Diverse Learning Needs written by Deborah C. Simmons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to communicate findings of a research synthesis investigating the bases of reading failure and the curricular and instructional basics to help guide the design and advancement of children's reading performance. The synthesis--completed by the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE) and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs--was conducted as part of NCITE's mission to improve the quality of educational tools that largely shape practice in American schools.
Download or read book Learning About Learning Disabilities written by Bernice Wong and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernice Wong's Learning about Learning Disabilities was the first text to give equal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities. The Third Edition of this popular title presents 80% new material, keeping the chapters up to date in this fast-moving field. With new contributors, and seven new chapters, coverage is both comprehensive and thorough, with three sections encompassing the research aspects of learning disabilities, the instructional aspects of learning disabilities, and the issues germane to different age ranges of the learning disabled: children, adolescents, and adults.Chapters summarizing research on learning disabilities include coverage of ADHD, memory, language processing, social competence, self-regulation, and brain structures as they apply to learning disabilities. Chapters focusing on instructional aspects of learning disabilities include coverage of teaching literacy, reading comprehension, writing, and mathematics.Readers will find Learning About Learning Disabilities, Third edition suitable for use as a reference source for researchers or a graduate level text.Reviews from previous editions:"An undergraduate text that strikes a careful balance between the intellectual (psychological) and practical aspects of learning disabilities."—BOOK NEWS, INC."This text provides a balanced focus on both the conceptual and practical aspects of learning disabilities. Its research coverage is more comprehensive and of greater depth than any other LD textbook, and it is distinctive in its treatment of such important areas as consultation skills and service delivery."—CHILD ASSESSMENT NEWS"Learning About Learning Disabilities provides a broad overview of some important issues in relation to the education and development of pupils with learning disabilities... Wong has succeeded in providing detailed descriptions and comments within a book which covers a broad range of topics. Without exception the chapters are clearly written and accessible, and many provide the reader with challenging ideas and practical suggestions."—BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION * Provides a balanced focus on both the conceptual and the practical aspects of learning disabilities. * Research coverage more comprehensive and of greater depth than any other textbook about learning disabilities * The work is distinctive in its treatment of such important areas as consultation skills and service delivery
Download or read book Handbook of Resilience in Children written by Sam Goldstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook gathers into one volume the current scientific theory, clinical guidelines, and real-world interventions that can help children overcome the everyday obstacles they face. It includes a wide range of perspectives addressing the role of resilience in helping children overcome these obstacles. The book provides guidance on how to measure and evaluate resilience in clinical practice, and it emphasizes the importance of resilience – positive psychology – rather than pathologies. In addition, the book features contributions from leading experts from a variety of fields, such as psychology, education, and social work.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparison of Reading Achievement Growth Between Learning Disabled Readers and Low Achievement Readers written by Cathy Clanton Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
