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    Education 422-4 Learning Disabilities
    FALL, 1982
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    INSTRUCTOR: Lorna Bennett
    Monday 4:30 - 8:30
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    LOCATION: on campus
    COURSE OBJECTIVES:
    1.
    To become aware of major issues and concerns in the field of learning
    disabilities.
    2.
    To develop an understanding of the characteristics associated with
    learning disabled children.
    3.
    To understand the nature of formal andinformaL.techniques used in
    the diagnosis of learning disabilities.
    4.
    To be conversant with a wide range of teaching strategies for remedia-.
    tion.
    COURSE OUTLINE:
    1.
    Area of Learning Disabilities
    - a field in transition
    - history
    - definition
    - prevalence
    - etiology
    - medicine and learning disability
    - language disabilities
    - social and emotional disabilities
    2.
    Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities
    - purpose
    - early intervention
    - psychological tests
    - norm and criterion referenced tests
    - informal assessment
    - clinical assessment
    - task analysis
    - reporting test results
    - interpreting test results
    3.
    Theories and Teaching Strategies
    - perspectives and issues
    - reading
    - language
    - motor and perceptual development
    - math
    ASSIGNMENTS: ?
    1.
    Evaluation of standardized measure.
    25
    marks
    2.
    Final exam based on text and lectures.
    25
    marks
    3.
    Critique of a journal article.
    25 marks
    4.
    One case study.
    25 marks
    BASIC TEXT:
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    Lerner,
    J.W. ?
    Learning Disabilities ?
    (3rd. ?
    ed).
    Boston:
    Houghton
    Mifflin, ?
    1981.

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