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How the Special Needs Brain Learns

by: David A. Sousa

How the Special Needs Brain Learns

by: David A. Sousa

ISBN 13:
9781412949873
ISBN 10:
1412949874
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/19/2006
Publisher: Corwin Pr

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Summary

This second edition helps you turn the latest special needs brain research into practical classroom activities for students and features a practical framework for identifying and motivating students with special needs.

List of Strategies to Consider

vii

About the Author

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

(1)

Who Are Special Needs Students?

(1)

Can Brain Research Help?

(1)

What Is in This Book?

(1)

A Word of Caution

(1)

The Brain and Learning

(14)

Some Exterior Parts of the Brain

(3)

Lobes of the Brain

(2)

Motor Cortex and Somatosensory Cortex

(1)

Cerebellum

(1)

Some Interior Parts of the Brain

(4)

Brainstem

(1)

Limbic Area

(2)

Cerebrum

(1)

Brain Cells

(2)

Learning and Retention

(4)

Implications for Students With Learning Disabilities

(1)

Rehearsal

(2)

Learning Motor Skills

(1)

How Different Are the Brains of Today's Students?

(3)

The Search for Novelty

(2)

Have Schools Changed to Deal With This Different Brain?

(1)

When Learning Difficulties Arise

(29)

Research Examines Learning Disabilities

(7)

Possible Causes of Learning Disabilities

(5)

Gender Differences

(1)

What Forms of Instruction Are Most Effective?

(1)

Misconceptions About Learning Disabilities

(2)

Gifted Children With Learning Disabilities

(1)

Responsiveness to Intervention

(4)

Key Elements of Responsiveness to Intervention

(3)

Helping Students Become Strategic Learners

(17)

What Is Learning?

(1)

Learning Difficulties of Students With Learning Disabilities

(1)

What Are Learning Strategies?

(3)

How Important Is Self-Esteem?

(13)

Attention Disorders

(18)

Research Findings

(7)

What Is Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?

(1)

What Causes ADHD?

(3)

Is ADHD Inherited?

(1)

Is ADHD on the Increase?

(1)

Is It Possible to Have ADHD-Like Behavior and Not Have ADHD?

(1)

The Future of ADHD Research and Treatment

(1)

What Educators Need to Consider

(10)

Speech Disabilities

(17)

Learning Spoken Language

(6)

Is Language Prewired in the Brain?

(2)

Speech and Language Patterns by Age

(3)

Putting the Language Components Together

(1)

Problems in Learning Spoken Language

(5)

Language Problems With Children and Adolescents

(4)

Language Deficits and Learning a Second Language

(1)

The Future of Speech-Language Disorders Research

(1)

What Educators Need to Consider

(5)

Reading Disabilities

(36)

Learning to Read

(5)

Is Reading a Natural Ability?

(1)

Spoken Language and Reading

(1)

Decoding and Comprehension

(3)

Difficulties in Learning to Read

(8)

Social and Cultural Causes of Reading Problems

(1)

Physical Causes of Reading Problems

(4)

Is Dyslexia Present in Readers of Other Languages?

(1)

Brain Imaging Studies and Dyslexia

(3)

Detecting Reading Problems

(3)

Spoken Language Difficulties

(1)

Early Indicators of Reading Problems

(2)

What Educators Need to Consider

(20)

What Teachers Should Know About Teaching Reading

(1)

What Beginning Readers Need to Learn

(1)

Some Effective Reading Intervention Programs

(20)

Writing Disabilities

119

(22)

Learning to Write

119

(2)

Difficulties in Writing

121

(6)

Environmental Causes

121

(1)

Neurological Causes

122

(1)

Dysgraphia

123

(4)

What Educators Need to Consider

127

(14)

Characteristics of Good Writing

127

(1)

Helping Students With Dysgraphia

128

(13)

Mathematical Disabilities

141

(19)

Learning to Calculate

141

(2)

Numerical Reasoning Independent of Language

142

(1)

Gender Differences in Mathematics

142

(1)

Difficulties in Mathematics

143

(5)

Dyscalculia

143

(4)

The Future of Research in Mathematics Disorders

147

(1)

What Educators Need to Consider

148

(12)

Determining the Source of the Problem

148

(1)

Diagnostic Tools for Assessing Learning Difficulties in Mathematics

148

(4)

Other Considerations

152

(8)

Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

160

(19)

Emotions, Behavior, and Learning

160

(3)

Pathways of Emotional Signals

161

(1)

Different Brain Areas for Different Emotions

162

(1)

First Survival and Emotions, Then the Textbook

162

(1)

Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

163

(8)

Anxiety Disorders

164

(2)

Depressive Disorders

166

(2)

Other Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

168

(2)

Impact of Childhood Abuse

170

(1)

The Future of Research in Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

171

(1)

What Educators Need to Consider

171

(8)

Autism Spectrum Disorders

179

(19)

Pervasive Developmental Disorders

179

(11)

Autism Spectrum Disorders

180

(9)

The Future of Research on Autism Spectrum Disorders

189

(1)

What Educators Need to Consider

190

(8)

Putting It All Together

198

(10)

Helping Students With Learning Difficulties

198

(10)

Identifying Students With Learning Difficulties

198

(3)

Accommodating Students With Learning Difficulties

201

(4)

Motivating Students With Learning Difficulties

205

(2)

Communicating With Parents

207

(1)

Glossary

208

(4)

References

212

(15)

Resources

227

(3)

Index

230

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