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    Educ. 422-4 Learning Disabilities
    SUMMER SESSION 1982
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    INSTRUCTOR: Patricia R. Johnson M.Ed.
    Tuesday Thursday 8:30 - 12:20
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    LOCATION: on campus
    COURSE DESCRIPTION:
    This course is designed as an introduction to the field of learning disabilities
    and will include the following topics:
    1.. Historical and theoretical foundation of learning disabilities;
    2. Identification of learning disabled students;
    3.
    An overview of assessment techniques and instruments;
    4.
    Instructional strategies, including cognitive modification techniques;
    5.
    Programming and materials, including a discussion of microcomputers;
    6. Teaching styles and learning styles;
    7.
    Stress and the learning disabled student, his teacher, and his family;.
    8.
    Professional reading - an examination of books, journals, and other
    sources of current information about learning disabilities.
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    Students will be able to choose from a variety of assignment options that will
    be discussed more fully at the first class meeting. Assignments will
    generally be of practical use to the student and related to individual interests.
    TEXTBOOKS:
    Lerner, Janet,
    Teachi
    Children.with Léarni]i
    Strategies. Nelson,
    g Disabilities:
    Canada: 1981,
    Theories, Diagnoses and
    For elementary level teachers, OPTIONAL:
    Hammill, D. ?
    Bartel, N. Teaehing Children With Learning and Behaviour Problems.
    Allyn E Bacon, Boston: 1978.
    For secondary level teaëhers, OPTIONAL:
    Alley, G. E Deshler, D. Teaching the Learning-Disabled Adolescent: Strategies
    and Methods. Love, Denver: 1979.
    DIRECTED INDEPENUOT STUDY COURSE
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    Slion Fraser University
    EDUCATION 422-4 OUTLINE
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    Department of Education
    LEARNING DISABILITIES
    This course provides a framework on understanding learning
    disabilities. It focuses on conceptual, historical and theoretical
    issues of the learning disabilities field, as well as fundamental
    steps in assessment and remediation of learning problems. It is the
    pre-requisite to Education 424, LEARNING DISABILITIES PRACTICUM.
    The course is divided into the following units:
    UNIT I
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    History
    II
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    Definitions
    III
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    Old Theories
    of
    Learning Disabilities ?
    (Part I)
    IV
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    Old Theories
    of
    Learning Disabilities ?
    (Part II)
    and Critique
    of
    Old Theories of Learning Disabilities
    V
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    New Theories
    of
    Learning Disabilities
    VI ?
    - Assessment of Reading Problems
    VII - Assessment of Arithmetic Problems
    VIII - Visual Discrimination Problems
    IX ?
    - Task Analysis
    X ?
    - Case Studies in Assessment and Remediation:
    XI ?
    ((a) a primary learning disability child,
    & XII
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    (b) an intermediate learning disability child,
    & (c) a secondary learning disability child.)
    COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
    Students are required to complete three assignments on given
    topics:
    Assignment I:
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    Definition ?
    - 15% of grade.
    Assignment II: Social Aspects - 25% of grade.
    Assignment III: Theory
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    - 30% of grade.
    The final examination will comprise 30% of the course grade.
    REQUIRED TEXT:
    BRYAN, Tanis & James, Understanding Learning Disabilities, (Alfred
    Pub. Co. In., Sherman Oaks, 1978)
    FARNHAM-DIGGORY, Sylvia, Learning Disabilities, (Harvard University
    Press, Cambridge, 1978)
    Directed Independen
    Simon Fraser Univeöy
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    Course ?
    .March 31, 1982
    Department of Education
    EDUCATION 422: LEARNING DISABILITIES
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    his course provides a framework on understanding learning disabilities.
    It focuses on conceptual, historical and theoretical issues of the learn-
    ing disabilities field, as well as fundamental steps in assessment and
    remediation of learning problems.
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    It is the p
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    e-requisite to Education
    424, Learning Disabilities Practicum. The course is divided into the
    following units:
    Unit I
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    History
    Unit
    Ii
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    Definitions
    Unit
    III
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    Old Theories ?
    of Learning Disabilities
    . (Part ?
    I)
    Unit
    IV
    -
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    Old Theories of Learning Disabilities
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    (Part ?
    II)
    and Critique of Old Theories of Learning
    Disabilities
    Unit
    V
    - ?
    New Theories of Learning Disabilities
    Unit
    VI
    - Assessment of Reading Problems
    Unit
    VII
    - Assessment of Arithmetic Problems
    Unit
    VIII ?
    - Visual ?
    Discrimination Problems
    Unit
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    -
    Task Analysis
    Unit
    X
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    -•
    Case Studies ?
    in Assessment and Remedjatjon:
    Unit
    XI ?
    - (a) ?
    a ?
    primary ?
    learning disability child
    Unit
    XII ?
    -
    (b) ?
    an
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    intermediate ?
    learning disability child
    - (c) ?
    a ?
    secondary ?
    learning disability child
    Course Requirements:
    Students are required to complete three assignments on given topics:
    Assignment
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    I: Definition ?
    20% of grade
    Assignment II: Social Aspects
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    20% of grade
    Assignment III: Theory
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    20% of grade
    The final examination will comprise 40% of the course grade
    Required Text:
    Lerner, Janet
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    Learning
    _Disabilities, 3rd Edition, Houghton, Mifflin Co.

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