MON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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Summer Semester 2000 ?

EDUC 422 - 4

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John McNamara

Learning Disabilities

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Office: MPX 8645

Phone: 291-4548

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E-mail: jkm@sfu.ca

Mondays 13:00-16:50

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 Educ 424-4: Learning Disabilities 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 READING

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