Rethinking Learning Disabilities: Understanding Children Who Struggle in School

by Deborah P. Waber

Book Overview

Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it. Leading researcher and clinician Deborah Waber offers an alternative to the prevailing view of learning disability as a problem contained within the child. Instead, she shows how learning difficulties are best understood as a function of the developmental interaction between the child and the world. Integrating findings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1462503349
• ISBN13: 9781462503346
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 5 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 12