Product Description: The book provides readers with an overview of the teaching challenges for this population of students, presents research on their unique challenges as learners, and provides teachers with evidence-based practices to enhance the success of this adult learner population.

Product Description: Jill Lauren profiles amazing individuals who live with a learning disability and have effectively conquered their challenges to achieve success. These moving biographical sketches highlight the stories of a remarkable group of youth and adults who lead fulfilling lives because of their hard work, courage, and resilience...read more

Product Description: Twenty talented, successful people with LD tell their own stories in this inspiring book. Some are famous (one received a MacArthur Foundation Award), most are not, but all are positive role models for people with or without LD. B&W photos.

Product Description: This volume explains how the brain functions in learning and remembering throughout one's life span. Then it describes the types of learning disabilities that exist throughout adulthood, such as attention deficit disorders, and mental health factors that often accompany learning disabilities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Children with learning disabilities constitute between seven and ten percent of the school-aged population, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. They also represent more than half of the children who receive special education services in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The most significant features of this book focus on its organization and content. Differing from all other introductory learning disabilities books, this book provides a true introduction to the field of learning disabilities, but does not include material related to methods of teaching students with learning disabilities...read more

Product Description: Giordano (special education and developmental disabilities, New Mexico State U.) provides a developmental basis for adult literacy education and criteria for diagnosing adult literacy. He then describes six popular programs for teaching developmentally disabled adults to read: computer-assisted, s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume sets an agenda for improving the educational and, ultimately, the social and economic futures of people with learning disabilities (LD). With sections devoted to education, labor, justice, and health and human services, this book offers not only a comprehensive overview of research but also a critical appraisal of the status quo in LD practices...read more

Product Description: "Learning Disabilities In Adulthood" is a professional reference that provides a comprehensive overview of adults with learning disabilities. The book combines theory, practice and first hand experience. Written for professionals (councellors, educators, psychologists) who deal with adults with significant problems in language, perception, attention and memory, the book presents practical information as well as helpful insights based on personal experience...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on the critical issues individuals with learning disabilities face when transitioning from secondary education to employment, post-secondary training/education, independent living, social integration and full participation in adult society...read more

Product Description: Taking a broad view of both learning problems and learning disabilities, the authors advocate moving the field forward toward comprehensive teaching approaches that integrate a full range of preventive and treatment interventions...read more