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Simon Fraser University

EDUCATION 422-4

LEARNING DISABILITIES

This course provides a framework for understanding learning disabilities. It

focuses on conceptual, historical and theoretical issues in

the learning disabilities

field. It

is

the prerequisite to Education 424 (Learning Disabilities Practicum).

Each chapter of the assigned text has its own accompanying sets of review

and thinking questions. Students should carefully work through these questions.

In accordance to the focus of Education 422, students attend only to Sections I

and III of the textbook. Section II is reserved for Education 424: Learning

Disabilities Practicum.

PREREQUISITE:

60 credit hours and EDUC 220, or 4011402.

REQUIRED TEXT:

Wong, Bernice Y. L. (editor).

Learning about Learning Disabilities.

Academic

Press Inc., 1991.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

2 Papers, 1 mid-term exam and 1 final exam.

06/18/93