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EDUCATION 422 LEARNING DISABILITIES

Summer Semester 2009

THURSDAY 1:30-5:20 PM AQ

5039

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Maureen Hoskyn, Ph.D.

Office: EDB 7641

Phone: 778-782-5808

Email: mhoskyn@sfu.ca

Objectives:

Education 422 is a theory-based course that is complimentary to Education 424,

the practical lab-based course on children with learning disabilities. In Education 422,

students will be introduced to the theoretical issues and foundations of the field of

learning disabilities. Issues that will be discussed include: the identification of children

with learning disabilities, language based learning disabilities (reading and writing), non-

verbal learning disabilities, attention and memory, social learning disabilities.

Pre-requisite (or concurrent):

Education

315

or Psychology 250

Course assignments:

Research Syntheses (2)

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30 marks

Class activities ?

45 marks

Final ?

25 marks

Text: Wong, B., Graham, L., Hoskyn, M., & Berman, J. (Eds.). (2008).

The ABCs of

learning disabilities

(2nd ed.). Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press.