9IMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Spring Semester 2000 ?

EDUC

Learning Disabilities

Dr. Bernice Wong

Office: MPX 9505

Tel: 291-4115

Wednesday 16:30-20:20 ?

E01.00 ?

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, motivation 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

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3 Short Think Papers - 30%

• Midterm Exam - 35%

• Final Exam - 35%

REQUIRED TEXT

Wong, B.Y.L. (1996). The ABC's of Learning Disabilities San Diego: Academic Press.