Neuropsychological Foundations of Learning

This book offers a comprehensive overview of advances made in the field of learning disabilities, in the service of diagnosis and remediation. The work includes genetic, electrophysiological, and brain imaging studies, and presents data on cognitive functions, laterality mechanisms, neuropsychological assessment, and subtyping of learning disabilities. Key Features * Presents impressive data on memory functions, laterality mechanisms, and subtyping of learning disabilities * Represents an important milestone in our understanding of the contribution of neurobiology to learning disabilities * Provides a thorough discussion of specific neuropsychological syndromes, in such areas as mathematics, reading, and speech and language

Foundations and Theoretical Issues in the Neuropsychology of Learning Disabilities
Biological Foundations of Learning Disabilities
Etiology of Reading Deficits in Learning Disabilities: Quantitative Genetic Analyses
Genetic Bases of Development Dyslexia: Molecular Studies
Learning Disabilities: A Critical Review of Definitional and Assessment Issues
The Dejerine Hypothesis: Implications for an Etiological Reformation of Developmental Dyslexia
Childhood Psychopathology and Learning Disabilities: Neuropsychological Relationships
Acquisition and Forgetting Processes in Normal and Learning Disabled Children: A Disintegration/Reintegration Theory
Hemispheric Activation and Arousal Asymmetry in Learning-Disabled Children
Cognitive Models of Developmental Reading Disorders
Learning Disabilities, Distinctive Encoding and Hemispheric Resources: An Information Processing Perspective
Methodologies and Assessment Techniques in the Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities
Use of Discrepancy Formulas in Assessment of Learning Disabilities
Neuropsychological Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Children
Neuropsychological Assessment of Learning Disabled Adolescents and Young Adults
Neuropsychological Subtypes of Learning Disabilities
Neuropsychological Prediction of Reading Disabilities
The Assessment of Handedness in Children
Event-Related Potential Indices: Learning Disabilities and Visual Processing
Brain Imaging in Learning Disabilities
Neuropsychological Syndromes and Practice in Learning Disabilities
Reading Disorders: Their Nature and Diagnosis
Specific Mathematics Disorders
Specific Speech and Language Disorders
Specific Nonverbal and Social Skills Deficits in Children with Learning Disabilities
Remediating Reading Disabilities
Academic Interventions with Learning-Disabled Students: A Cognitive/Metacognitive Approach
Neuropsychological Assessment: Case Studies
Neuropsychological Perspectives in Special Education
On the Relevance of Neuropsychological Data to Learning Disabilities
Author Index
Subject Index
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Neuropsychological Foundations of Learning Disabilities

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