Educational Alternatives for Students with Learning Disabilities

**Educational Alternatives for Students with Learning** **Disabilities** responds to the pressing need to provide teachers of learning-disabled students with practical knowledge regarding state-of-the-art intervention strat- egies. This book provides examples of validated alternative educational practices which avoid the pitfalls and stigmatizing effects on students of older models of intervention. The new practices aim to maximize teaching effectiveness and to assist the learning disabled in achieving their potential. The intervention strategies described in this book have the power to enhance the efforts of all concerned. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Preschool Language Intervention in the Classroom: Rationale and Organizational Structure....Pages 3-42 Linguistic Transitions in Children and Adolescents with Language Learning Disabilities: Characteristics and Training....Pages 43-63 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Beginning Reading Instruction for Reading Disabled and At-Risk Students....Pages 67-90 Cognitive Strategy Instruction in Written Language for Learning Disabled Students....Pages 91-115 Effective Interventions: Using Both Hemispheres in Math....Pages 117-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 In the Spirit of Strategies Instruction: Cognitive and Metacognitive Aspects of the Strategies Intervention Model....Pages 141-158 Using Computers to Assist in Reading Instruction for Children with Learning Disabilities....Pages 159-181 Social Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities: Towards a Broader Perspective....Pages 183-198 The Gifted/Learning Disabled: An Oxymoron?....Pages 199-215 Back Matter....Pages 217-228