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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 or corequisite 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.

They are for your own benefit and are not to be handed in for marking.

PREREQUISiTE: 60 credit hours and corequisite - EDUC 220.

REQUIRED TEXT:

Wong, Bernice Y. L..

The Abc's Of Learning Disabilities,

Academic Press Inc.,

1996.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

Three Think Papers - 30%

*Mid-term exam - 35%

*Final exam - 35%

*Exam Schedules are in Registration Timetable.

SUPPLEMENTARY FEES:

Course Materials & Service Fee

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$30

Deposit for Additional Materials ?

$20

10/19/00

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