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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
(1) ?
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.