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EDUCATION

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LEARNING DISABILITIES

FALL, 1980

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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Bernice Wong

CAMPUS

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Mondays

4:30 - 8:30

In designing this course I have kept several objectives in mind. The first

of these is to underscore the special importance of an educational perspective

in learning disabilities. ?

Although the field of learning disabilities involves?

many professionals from diverse disciplines, especial ly in the history of the

field, ultimately the educator is left with the responsibility of alleviating

the learning problem faced by the child/adolescent.

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It is this responsibility?

that singles out the special contribution and significance of an educational

perspective in learning disabilities.

A second objective is to acquaint you with the problems in defining learning

disabilities. The defining attributes of learning disabilities need to be care-

fully examined and justified. The demarcations need to be made between a

learning-disabled student and a poor reader; between a learning-disabled student

and a mentally retarded student.

A third objective is to introduce to you new theories of learning disabilities.

These are important wortby a new generation of scholars in the learning dis-

abilities field. They have provided us theories that are comprehensive and

heuristically promising.

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It is therefore important that we familiarize our-

selves with them.

A fourth objective is to familiarize you with the various kinds of academic

and non-academic learning disabilities. Academic learningdisabilities refer

to learning problems in reading, arithmetic, spelling and writing. Non-academic

learning disabilities refer to perceptual problems, and visual-motor problems.

A fifth objective is to cover language problems and the social aspects of

learning disabilities.

Lastly the sixth objective is to impart knowledge of assessments of learning

disabilities.

GRADING:

Two exams each accounting for 50% of final grade.

TEXTBOOK:

To be announced.