Synopses & Reviews
This revised textbook, now co-authored by an eminent child neuropsychologist, combines a well-developed theoretical orientation with practical, remedial suggestions and includes helpful, pertinent case studies to effectively illustrate the neuropsychological principles. A new chapter on "Attention Deficit Disorder" has been added. As with the two previous editions, this one follows the tradition of providing a highly integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to learning disabilities in adults and children. From the reviews of the first edition: "William Gaddes has attempted and...accomplished a very difficult task - that of communicating the complex assortment of neuropsychological research and evidence on learning disorders so that professionals in various disciplines can make use of such information in their daily practice..." #Journal of Learning Disabilities#1
Synopsis
This is a multi-disciplinary approach which emphasizes a psychobiological model on a continuum of time and development in children and adults. It includes a new chapter on "Attention Deficit Disorder" and a discussion on the current debate on the definition and identification of true learning disabled cases.
Synopsis
The present edition of this book is a revision and expansion of the first two editions which appeared in 1980 and 1985, and in German translation in 1991. More than half of the present volume includes new material, and what has been retained from the former editions has been largely rewritten and updated with new research findings. A completely new chapter has been added on "Attention Deficit Disorder. " The author of the earlier editions (W.H.G.) has been joined by a coauthor (D.E.), and their combined elementary, high school, and university teaching and clinical experience totals approximately seventy-five years. Both of us have directed our professional en- ergies to understanding the puzzle of human learning, especially academic learning, of those students who, despite apparently nor- mal intelligence and opportunity, have varying degrees of difficulty in acquiring ideas and skills that are easily mastered by others. Until about fifty years ago there was a common tendency to equate academic success with intelligence, and those students who could not meet the demands of the prescribed program were usually required to repeat the same grade with a repetition of the same discouraging treatment that had been unsuccessful the first time.
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The highly successful third edition of Learning Disabilities and Brain Function remains a classic text for professionals and students in the field. This book combines well-developed theoretical orientation with practical suggestions and pertinent case studies, for a highly integrated multidisciplinary approach to learning disabilities in children and adults. Third edition contains timely new chapter on Attention Deficit Disorder.
Table of Contents
1. Neurology & behavior: background & assessment 2. The nervous system & learning 3. Using neuropsychological knowledge in understanding learning disorders 4. Perceptual disorders 5. Sensory & motor pathways & learning 6.Hemispheric specialization, handedness, and laterality 7. Attention deficit disorder 8. Language development, aphasia, dyslexia 9. Neuropsychological basis of problems in writing 10. Remediation, therapy and learning in the disabled child 11. Postscript // Appendix: Neuropsychological tests