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Learning Disabilities

INTERSESSION

1995

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D. Demers

PREREQUISITE:

60 hours of credit and Educ 220, or Educ. 401/402.

COURSE DESCRWnON:

This course focuses on the conceptual, research and assessment aspects of

learning disabilities. It is the prerequisite course to Education 424:

Learning Disabilities practicum/lab. Educ 424 focuses on providing

students with instruction and practice in informal assessment of reading

and mathematics problems and remediation of them.

Major topics covered in Educ 422 include: A lifespan approach to

understanding learning disabilities (LD), conceptual and definitional

issues in LD, a language-oriented view to reading disability, visual

processing problems, reading research and LD, metacognition and LD,

social aspects of LD, assessment of reading problems, math problems and

writing problems of LD students.

IIiI)

Wong, B.Y.L. (1991).

Learning About Learning Disabilities.

Academic

Press. ISBN 0-12-762530-5.

GRADING

Onequizz ..............................................................................................40%

• focus journal .....................................................................................25%

• professional reflection journal......................................................

25%

• participation

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