Research Catalog

Title

Psychoeducational foundations of learning disabilities [by] Daniel P. Hallahan [and] William M. Cruickshank.

Author

Hallahan, Daniel P., 1944-

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1973]

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Details

Additional Authors

Cruickshank, William M.

Description

xiv, 317 pages illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Prentice-Hall series in special education

Uniform Title

Prentice-Hall series in special education

Subject

• Learning disabilities
• Learning, Psychology of
• Perceptual-motor learning
• Special education
• Education, Special
• Learning Disabilities
• special education
• Special education
• Learning disabilities
• Learning, Psychology of
• Perceptual-motor learning
• Kind
• Lernbehinderung
• Lernstörung
• Pädagogische Psychologie
• Leermoeilijkheden
• Kinderen

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 273-310.

Contents

: Learning disability as a category ; A Pandora's box is opened ; The error is made ; This book -- Etiological factors : Neuroclinical factors ; Nutritional factors, mental retardation, and learning problems ; Cultural deprivations ; Theoretical models ; Intellectual development and academic achievement ; Environmental factors in deprivation ; Bioneural results of deprivation ; Studies of differential stimulation ; Studies of sociological variables -- Investigators in the historical development of learning disabilities : Alfred Strauss and Heinz Werner, investigative pioneers ; Perceptual-motor theorists within the field of learning disabilities ; Language disability theorists within the field of learning disabilities ; Neuropsychological pioneers ; Toward integration ; International expansion -- Historical trends within the literature : Methodology ; Results of the abstract analysis -- Perceptual-motor development and its relation to cognition and academic achievement : Strauss and Werner relate perceptual and conceptual development ; Theoretical and empirical support for a perception-cognition relationship ; Theoretical and empirical support for a perception-academic achievement relationship ; The relative importance of different sensory modes at different age levels ; Theoretical speculations concerning an age-related, sensory-modal shift ; Perceptual and perceptual-motor problems as possible causes of difficulties in cognition and academic achievement -- The efficacy of perceptual-motor training : The doman-delacato approach ; Studies on mentally retarded populations ; Studies on learning disabled populations ; Studies on "disadvantaged" populations ; Studies on undifferentiated (normal) populations ; Research not definitive -- Attention and motor control : Pathological attention and motor control ; Learning disabilities and the mainstream of psychology: a need for integration -- Future directions : An interdisciplinary responsibility ; Research policy ; The educational match and prototype programs ; Teacher evaluation.

ISBN

• 0137342853
• 9780137342853

LCCN

72010543

OCLC

• ocm00488339
• 488339
• SCSB-545053

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library