Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of cognitive, social, and neuropsychological aspects of learning disabilities / edited by Stephen J. Ceci.

Publication

Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1986-

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Details

Additional Authors

Ceci, Stephen J.

Description

volumes <1>; 24 cm

Subject

• Learning disabilities > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Children
• Infants
• Learning disabilities
• Child
• Infant
• Learning Disabilities
• children (people by age group)
• infants
• Infants
• Children
• Learning disabilities
• Leermoeilijkheden

Genre/Form

• Handbook
• manuals (instructional materials)
• handbooks.
• Handbooks and manuals
• Handbooks and manuals.
• Guides et manuels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

V. 1. Part I. Definitional controversy. Chapter 1. Learning disabilities / John Doris -- Chapter 2. Classification of disabled learners: beyond exclusionary definitions / Jack M. Fletcher and Robin Morris -- Chapter 3. A marker system for describing learning-disability samples / Barbara Keogh -- Chapter 4. Categorization of learning disabilities / Linda S. Siegel and Roberta K. Heaven -- Commentary: Time, now, for a little serious complexity / S. Farnham-Diggory. Part II. Microlevel cognitive aspects of learning disabilities. Chapter 5. Long-term memory development and learning disability: storage and retrieval loci of disabled/nondisabled differences / C.J. Brainerd, J. Kingma, and M.L. Howe -- Chapter 6. Sources of word-finding problems in language-impaired children / Robert Kail and Lawrence B. Leonard -- Chapter 7. Multiple coding processes in learning-disabled and skilled readers / H. Lee Swanson -- Commentary: New beginnings, old problems / Keith E. Stanovich. Part III. Macrolevel cognitive aspects of learning disabilities. Chapter 8. Prose comprehension and recall in disabled learners / Patricia E. Worden -- Chapter 9. Linguistic and communicative development in learning-disabled children / Mavis Donahue -- Chapter 10. Problem-solving skills in learning-disabled children / Addison Stone and Donna Michals -- Commentary: Linguistic and cognitive correlates of learning disability: reactions to three reviews / Frank R. Vellutino. Part IV. Psychosocial aspects of learning disabilities. Chapter 11. Personality variables and peer relations of children and adolescents with learning disabilities / Barry. F. Perlmutter -- Chapter 12. Social and emotional adjustments of learning-disabled children: a review of the issues / Margaret Bruck -- Chapter 13. Learning-disabled students' perceptions of social events / Larry Maheady and Diane M. Sainato -- Commentary: Developmental considerations in research on socioemotional aspects of learning disabilities / Felicisma C. Serafica and Mary E. Walsh-Hurley. Part V. Neuropsychological aspects of learning disabilities. Chapter 14. Assessing current theories of cerebral organization / Lizbeth J. Martin -- Chapter 15. Lateral asymetries in learning-disabled children: a review / John E. Obrzut, George W. Hynd, and Carol A. Boliek -- Chapter 16. Neurobehavioral dysfunction and learning disabilities in children / Delmont C. Morrison -- Commentary: Using laterality tests to monitor disabled learners' thinking / Marcel Kinsbourne. V. 2. Part I. Microlevel cognitive aspects of learning disabilities. Chapter 1. An information-processing framework for understanding reading disability / Louise C. Spear and Robert J. Sternberg -- Chapter 2. The nature of reading disability: toward an integrative framework / Frederick J. Morrison -- Chapter 3. In search of the attentional deficit / Kathleen L. McNellis -- Chapter 4. An interactive model of strategic processing / Mitchell Rabinowitz and Michelen T.H. Chi -- Commentary: How shall we conceptualize the language problems of learning-disabled children? / Stephen J. Ceci and Jacquelyn G. Baker. Part II. Macrolevel cognitive aspects of learning disabilities. Chapter 5. Patterns of motivation and reading skills in underachieving children / Evelyn R. Oka and Scott G. Paris -- Chapter 6. Metacognition, motivation, and controlled performance / John G. Borkowski, Mary Beth Johnston, and Molly K. Reid -- Chapter 7. Elaborative learning strategies for the inefficient learner / Michael Pressley and Joel R. Levin -- Commentary: The four M's-memory strategies, metastrategies, monitoring, and motivation / Patricia E. Worden. Part III. Socioemotional aspects of learning disabilities. Chapter 8. Affect and cognition in learning disabilities / David Goldstein and William D. Dundon -- Chapter 9. Psychosocial aspects of learning disabilities / Maribeth Montgomery Kasik, David A. Sabatini and Patricia Spoentgen -- Chapter 10. Social cognitive factors in learning-disabled children's social problem / Ruth Pearl -- Commentary: Socioemotional factors in learning disabilities / Elaine Walker. Part IV. Neuropsychological aspects of learning disabilities. Chapter 11. Natural histories in learning disabilities: neuropsychological difference/environmental demand / Jane M. Holmes -- Chapter 12. Learning disability with and without attention deficit disorder / Elizabeth H. Aylward and Dennis Whitehouse -- Chapter 13. Event-related potentials of RDs during memory scanning / Phillip J. Holcomb, Peggy T. Ackerman, and Roscoe A. Dykman -- Commentary: Brain function and learning disabilities / Karl Pribham and Diane McGuinness.

ISBN

• 0898596823
• 9780898596823
• 0898597978
• 9780898597974

LCCN

85032547

OCLC

• ocm13064007
• 13064007
• SCSB-636259

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library