Handbook of learning disabilities / edited by H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Overview of foundations, causes, instruction, and methodology in the field of learning disabilities / H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris, and Steve Graham -- A brief history of the field of learning disabilities / Daniel P. Hallahan and Devery R. Mock -- Classification and definition of learning disabilities: an integrative perspective / Jack M. Fletcher, Robin D. Morris, and G. Reid Lyon -- Learning disabilities and the law / Cynthia M. Herr and Barbara D. Bateman -- Learning disability as a discipline / Kenneth A. Kavale and Steven R. Forness -- English-language learners with learning disabilities / Russell Gersten and Scott Baker -- Searching for the most effective service delivery model for students with learning disabilities / Naomi Zigmond -- Attention: relationships between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and learning disabilities / Laurie E. Cutting and Martha Bridge Denckla -- RAN's contribution to understanding reading disabilities / Patricia Greig Bowers and Galit Ishaik -- Basic cognitive processes and reading disabilities / Linda S. Siegel -- Memory difficulties in children and adults with learning disabilities / H. Lee Swanson and Leilani Sáez -- Learning disabilities in arithmetic: problem-solving differences and cognitive deficits / David C. Geary -- Language processes: keys to reading disability / Virginia A. Mann -- Self-concept and students with learning disabilities / Batya Elbaum and Sharon Vaughn -- Neurological correlates of reading disabilities / Carlin J. Miller, Juliana Sanchez, and George W. Hynd -- Genetic influences on reading and writing disabilities / Jennifer B> THomson and Wendy H. Raskind --

Effective remediation of word identification and decoding difficulties in school-age children with reading disabilities / Maureen W. Lovett, Roderick W. Barron, and Nancy J. Benson -- Teaching text structure to improve reading comprehension / Joanna P. Williams -- Enhancing the mathematical problem solving of students with mathematics disabilities / Lynn S. Fuchs and Douglas Fuchs -- Students with learning disabilities and the process of writing: a meta-analysis of SRSD studies / Steve Graham and Karen R. Harris -- Preventing written expression disabilities through early and continuing assessment and intervention for handwriting and/or spelling problems: research into practice / Virginia W. Berninger and Dagmar Amtmann -- Science and social studies / Thomas E. Scruggs and Margo A. Mastropieri -- Cognitive strategies instruction research in learning disabilities / Bernice Y. L. Wong ... [et al.] -- Direct instruction / Gary Adams and Douglas Carnine -- Cooperative learning for students with learning disabilities: evidence from experiments, observations, and interviews / Joseph R. Jenkins and Rollanda E. O'Connor -- Identifying children at risk for reading failure: curriculum-based measurement and the dual-discrepancy approach / Douglas Fuchs ... [et al.] -- The sociocultural model in special education interventions: apprenticing students in higher-order training / Carol Sue Englert and Troy Mariage -- Exploratory and confirmatory methods in learning disabilities research / Robert D. Abbott, Dagmar Amtmann, and Jeff Munson -- Designs for applied educational research / Jean B. Schumaker and Donald D. Deshler -- The methods of cluster analysis and the study of learning disabilities / Deborah L. Speece -- Neurobiological indices of dyslexia / Sally E. Shaywitz and Bennett A. Shaywitz -- What have we learned about learning disabilities from qualitative research?: a review of studies / Charles MacArthur.