Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

What is to be done to help a student who does not have an obvious special education condition, but whose expected achievement on certain academic tasks falls short of his or her actual achievement-despite evidence-based instruction? Let Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities be your guide! This compact resource describes the characteristics associated with learning disabilities, and offers practical teaching strategies proven to increase the success rate of these students both in and outside the classroom.

Highlights include:

• A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of the nature of learning disabilities and how they are best addressed
• Cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics that are associated with learning disabilities
• Strategies to improve the work habits and study skills of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD
• Highly effective methods for improving the performance of students with learning disabilities in reading, writing, and mathematics
• Key vocabulary terms

Bob Algozzine is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina and project codirector of the U.S. Department of Education-supported Behavior and Reading Improvement Center. With 25 years of research experience and extensive firsthand knowledge of teaching students classified as seriously emotionally disturbed, Algozzine is a uniquely qualified staff developer, conference speaker, and teacher of behavior management and effective teaching courses. He is active in special education practice as a partner and collaborator with professionals in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and as an editor of several journals focused on special education. Algozzine has written more than 250 manuscripts on special education topics, including many books and textbooks on how to manage emotional and social behavior problems.