DIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
    Fall Semester 1999
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    EDUC 422 - 4
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    Dr. Bernice Wong
    Learning Disabilities ?
    Office: MPX 9505
    Tel: 291-4115
    E01.00
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    E-mail: bwong@sfu.ca
    PREREQUISITE
    60 credit hours & corequisite Educ 220.
    COURSE DESCRIPTION
    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, and social
    aspects of LD.
    OBJECTIVES
    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, mathematic
    and writing problems and remediation of them.
    REQUIREMENTS
    • 3 Short Think Papers - 30%
    • Midterm Exam - 35%
    • Final Exam - 35%
    REQUIRED READING
    Wong, B.Y.L. (1996). The ABC's of Learning Disabilities San Diego: Academic Press.
    ISBN 0-12-762545-3.

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