Learning Difficulties Books

New and Published Books

1. Educating Children and Young People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

   Constructing Personalised Pathways to Learning

   By Carolyn Blackburn, Barry Carpenter, Jo Egerton

   The range of learning difficulties associated with children and young people who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) has been highlighted as an emerging but little understood area of Special Educational Needs. This engaging, timely and highly practical book will raise awareness about FASD...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Educating Special Children

   An introduction to provision for pupils with disabilities and disorders, 2nd Edition

   By Michael Farrell

   Educating Special Children is the definitive guide to evidence-based practice and professionally informed approaches in provision for special children. Now in its second edition, this book outlines ideas of best practice that relate to various disabilities and disorders and helpfully discusses what...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Effective Teacher's Guide to Dyslexia and other Learning Difficulties (Learning Disabilities)

   Practical strategies, 2nd Edition

   By Michael Farrell

   Series: The Effective Teacher's Guides

   This highly anticipated second edition of The Effective Teacher's Guide to Dyslexia and other Learning Difficulties (Learning Disabilities) critically examines the specificity and complexity of learning disabilities. The user-friendly text highlights the importance of schools reviewing their...

   Published December 5th 2011 by Routledge
4. Assessing Children with Specific Learning Difficulties

   A teacher's practical guide

   By Gad Elbeheri, Gavin Reid, John Everatt

   This comprehensive book provides all the information that teachers need to know about assessment in relation to their pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties. The why, how and what of assessment will be addressed, whilst the link between assessment and intervention will also be a key focus....

   Published October 31st 2011 by Routledge
5. Educational Therapy in Action

   Behind and Beyond the Office Door

   By Dorothy Fink Ungerleider

   This book provides an in-depth look at what a little-known clinician, the educational therapist, does and how they do it. It goes behind the clinician’s door to illustrate the unusual and broad range of interventions – both academic/vocational and social/emotional – that an educational therapist...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. Handbook of Special Education

   Edited by James M. Kauffman, Daniel P. Hallahan

   Special education is now an established part of public education in the United States—by law and by custom. However, it is still widely misunderstood and continues to be dogged by controversies related to such things as categorization, grouping, assessment, placement, funding, instruction, and a...

   Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Inclusive Education

   A Practical Guide to Supporting Diversity in the Classroom, 2nd Edition

   By Joanne Deppeler, David Harvey, Tim Loreman

   Inclusive education continues to be an exciting but challenging component of the everyday life of the classroom teacher. Whist there is no recipe for successful inclusion, meaningful inclusion involves engaging in a flexible process in which educators work in partnership with parents, students, and...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
8. The Clinical Practice of Educational Therapy

   A Teaching Model

   Edited by Maxine Ficksman, Jane Adelizzi

   The Clinical Practice of Educational Therapy is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary profession and practice of educational therapy as it exists today. It describes the scope and practice of educational therapy from its European roots to its growing presence in...

   Published May 5th 2010 by Routledge
9. Understanding and Promoting Access for People with Learning Difficulties

   Seeing the Opportunities and Challenges of Risk

   Edited by Jane Seale, Melanie Nind

   The issue of access is at the forefront of the practical challenges facing people with learning difficulties and people working with or supporting them. This engaging text brings together evidence, narratives and discussions that question and advance our understanding of the concept of access for...

   Published July 8th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Journey for Inclusive Education in the Indian Sub-Continent

    By Mithu Alur, Michael Bach

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Despite national and international commitments to Education for All, and the Millennium Development Goals to assure universal primary education by 2015, over 90% of children with disabilities remain excluded from regular education in countries of the south. This book describes a three decade-long...

    Published July 6th 2009 by Routledge