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Faculty of Education

Simon Fraser University

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EDUCATION 422-4

LEARNING DISABILITIES

This course provides a framework for understanding learning disabilities. It

focuses on conceptual, historical and research 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, normally offered on campus.

PREREQUISITE: 60 credit hours and EDUC 220; or EDUC 401/402.

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.

COURSE INSTRUCTOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES WITHOUT NOTICE.