Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Foreword; Preface; PART ONE Biological Approaches; 1. Genes, Environment, and Reading Disabilities; 2. The Biological Foundations of Developmental Dyslexia; 3. The Neuropsychology Basis of Learning Disabilities; PART TWO Cognitive Approaches; 4. Learning Disabilities in Perspective; 5. Phonologically Based Reading Disabilities: Toward a Coherent Theory of One Kind of Learning Disability; 6. Reading Disabilities and the Interventionist; 7. Learning Disabilities: The Roads We Have Traveled and the Path to the Future; 8. Developing Reading Fluency in Learning-Disabled Students
PART THREE Contextual Approaches9. Learning Disabilities as Organizational Pathologies; 10. Learning Disability: Issues of Representation, Power, and the Medicalization of School Failure; 11. Can We Get There from Here? Learning Disabilities and Future Education Policy; PART FOUR Conclusions; 12. Epilogue: Toward an Emerging Consensus About Learning Disabilities; About the Editors and Contributors; Index