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    Education 1+22-4
    INTERSESSION 1983
    Tuesdays & Thursdays 8:30 - 12:20
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    Learning Disabilities
    INSTRUCTOR: Dr. B. Wong
    Office: MPX 9505
    Telephone: 291-1+115
    LOCATION: on campus
    OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:
    1. To impart knowledge of:
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    (a) history and concept of learning disabilities
    (b)
    assessment models and methods
    (c)
    salient aspects of learning disabilities
    (structural, social and strategic aspects).
    2. To consider the instructional issues in learning disabilities from the respective
    perspectives of the primary, intermediate and secondary teachers.
    COURSE OUTLINE:
    May 10th
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    Problems and issues in learning disabilities
    May 12th
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    Models and methods in assessing learning disabilities
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    Psychoeducational
    (2) ?
    Informal
    (3) ?
    Curriculum-based
    May
    17th
    Reading problems
    May
    19th
    Math problems
    May
    24th
    Memory problems
    Metacognitive aspects of LD
    May
    26th
    Midterm exam
    May
    31st
    Social aspects
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    of LD
    June
    2nd
    From the perspective of the primary teachers:
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    needs and
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    issues
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    in
    instructing ?
    LD children
    June
    7th
    From the perspective of the intermediate teacher:
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    needs and ?
    issues
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    in
    instructing ?
    LD children
    June 9th
    From the perspective of the secondary teacher:
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    needs and ?
    issues
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    in
    instructing LD adolescents
    June
    1
    1 4th
    Review and epilogue
    June 16th
    Final ?
    exam
    Grading: First exam - 50
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    Second exam - 50°/
    TEXT: Lerner, Janet. Learning Disabilities (1981).
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    (It's been ordered for you)
    P.S. Dr. Wong is on leave until April 30th. She'll be back on May 2nd. If you
    have any questions that Karen/Vera can't answer, leave me a note with your
    phone number and I'll get back to you.

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