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Learning Disabilities : Appropriate Practices for a Diverse Population

Name: Learning Disabilities : Appropriate Practices for a Diverse Population
Author: Barry Edwards McNamara
ISBN: 9780791438831

by Barry Edwards McNamara

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This book addresses issues in teacher preparation and parental roles in the education of children with learning disabilities. It provides a variety of instructional approaches that recognize the cultural and linguistic diversity found in students classified as learning disabled. There is a critical need to incorporate a sensitivity to issues of diversity into educational assessment, curriculum planning, teacher training, and interactions with parents, especially in large urban areas which are characterized by cultural and linguistic diversity. Significant changes in traditional special education assessment and instruction are needed to effectively deal with the overrepresentation of minority students classified as learning disabled, and resolve the inherent problems with the definition and diagnosis of learning disabilities.

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Argues that there is a critical need to incorporate sensitivity to issues of diversity into educational assessment, curriculum planning, teacher training, and interactions with parents, especially in large urban areas characterized by cultural and linguistic diversity in order to deal with the overrepresentation of minority students classified as learning disabled. Offers teachers, teacher trainers, and administrators a variety of instructional approaches that recognize the cultural and linguistic diversity found in students so classified. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.