Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification (Paperback, 2)

Foreword

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

PART I: DEFINITIONS AND MANIFESTATIONS OF SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES

One: Overview of Specific Learning Disabilities
Marlene Sotelo-Dynega, Dawn P. Flanagan, and Vincent C. Alfonso

Two: The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: How SLD Manifests in Reading
Steven G. Feifer

Three: How SLD Manifests in Mathematics
Michèlele M. M. Mazzocco and Rose Vukovic

Four: How SLD Manifests in Writing
Nancy Mather and Barbara J. Wendling

Five: How SLD Manifests in Oral Expression and Listening Comprehension
Nickola Wolf Nelson and Elisabeth H. Wiig

Six: Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
Margaret Semrud-Clikeman

PART II: METHODS AND MODELS OF SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY IDENTIFICATION

Seven: A Response to Intervention (RTI) Approach to SLD Identification
Jack M. Fletcher and Jeremy Miciak

Eight: Using Student Response to Intervention to Identify SLD: Requirements, Recommendations, and Future Research
Mathew K. Burns, Kathrin E. Maki, Kristy Warmbolde-Brann, and June L. Preast

Nine: Cognitive Neuroscientific Contributions to Theoretical Understanding of Specific Learning Disabilities
Scott L. Decker, Rachel Bridges, and Tayllor Vetter

Ten: Integrating Instructionally Relevant Specific Learning Disability Diagnoses, Patterns of Strengths and Weaknesses, and Positive Home-School Partnerships: Free and Appropriate Public Education for ALLAll.
Nicole Lynne Alston-Abel and Virginia Berninger and Nicole Alston-Abel

Eleven: Dual Discrepancy/Consistence Operational Definition of SLD: Integrating Multiple Data Sources and Multiple Data- Gathering Methods
Dawn P. Flanagan, Vincent C. Alfonso, Megan C. Sy, Vincent C. Alfonso, Jennifer T. Mascolo, and Erin M. McDonough

Twelve: Pattern of Strengths and Weaknesses Made Easy: The Discrepancy/Consistency Model
Jack A. Naglieri and Steve Feifer

Thirteen: Core Selective Evaluation Process (C-SEP) and Dual Discrepancy/Consistency (DD/C) Models for SLD Identification: A Case Study Approach
Gail M. Cheramie, G. Thomas Schanding Jr., and Dristien Kristin Streich

PART III: SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY IDENTIFICATION

Fourteen: Difference or Disorder: Assessment of SLD Wwith an English Learner
Samuel O. Ortiz, Kristan E. Melo, and Meghan A. Terzulli

Fifteen: Differential Diagnosis of Specific Learning Disability Versus Other Difficulties
Benjamin J. Lovett and David A. Kilpatrick

Epilogue

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index