understanding dyslexia and other learning disabilities by linda siegel
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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Pacific Educational Press Faculty of Education University of British Columbia 411–2389 Health Sciences Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
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BOOK SPECIFICATIONS:Trade paperback 6″ × 9″ • 296 pp • Price: $29.00Publication date: September 2013 ISBN: 978-1-926966-29-8 ebook ISBN: 978-1-926966-30-4 For ebook availability, see our website.
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UnderStandInG DYSLEXIA andother LEARNINGDISABILITIESLinda Siegel
PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL PRESS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR LINDA SIEGEL is a professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the Univer-sity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada where she holds the Dorothy C. Lam Chair in Special Education. She has conducted research on the development of reading and of mathematical con-cepts, language development, dyslexia, mathematical learning dis-abilities, early identification and intervention to prevent reading
difficulties, and the development of reading and language skills in children learning English as a second language. She has consulted on the development of reading skills in elementary school age children in China (Hong Kong, Xian, Guangzhou, and Shen Zhen), Barbados, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, and many places in the US and Canada. In 2010, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Canadian Psychology from the Canadian Psychological Association. In 2012, she received the inaugural Eminent Researcher Award from the organization Learning Difficulties Australia. She has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden).
FOREWORD AUTHOR PEGGY MCCARDLE is President of Peggy McCardle Consulting, LLC, and former Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Understanding Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities addresses how our educational system has failed to identify many children with learning disabilities and calls for the adoption of straightforward diagnostic techniques so that treatment options can be implemented at a young age. Many children who struggle with learning become discouraged in the classroom and isolated from their peers. Many adults whose learning disabilities were not recognized in school suffer from deep feelings of inadequacy that often prevent them from developing close relationships, finding rewarding employment, or living happily.
In this accessibly written book, Linda Siegel challenges the use of complex and time-consuming testing that is currently used to diagnose learning disabilities. In their place, she outlines simple and pragmatic techniques for testing for disabilities in reading, mathematics, spelling, and writing.
The text is enlivened by first-hand accounts of people living with learning disabilities, case studies from literature, and profiles of highly accomplished individuals who have achieved success despite their learning disabilities. Their stories encourage people with learning challenges and those who support them to recognize and nurture each person’s special talents.
Understanding Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities implores families, teachers, and other educational professionals to provide resources and services for all those struggling with learning so that no more lives are compromised.
“…a substantial contribution to the field of education from a preeminent scholar in the field of learning disabilities” —Dr. Gina Harrison, professor in Special Education at the University of Victoria
UNDERSTANDING DYSLEXIA and other LEARNING DISABILITIESLinda Siegel
Introduction: A Wake-Up Call
Part I: Types of Learning Disabilities 1 The Giant with Dyslexia 2 Spelling Test Terror3 Picasso, the Artist with Dyslexia4 The Case of Agatha Christie:
Dysgraphia5 Winston Churchill–Famous
Orator, Superb Military Strategist, Failure at Mathematics
6 Hans Christian Andersen: A Case of Non-Verbal Learning Disability
7 Yeats, the Poet with Dyslexia
Part II: History, Assessment, Diagnosis, and Misdiagnosis8 Jane Austen: The First Educational
Psyc hologist9 “Stupid Tom”: George Eliot on
Dyslexia10 The Scientific Discovery of
Dyslexia11 Tiptoeing Through the Minefield
of Diagnosis12 IQ Worship: Into the Quicksand13 Abuses of the IQ Test: The Case of
Johnny14 Not Stupid: A Tale of Two
Teachers15 Not Lazy: The Case of Darryl
Part III: Coping with a Learning Disability 16 Reading Is a Goose Flying:
Learning Disabilities through the Eyes of Children
17 The Albatross, or Living with a Learning Disability
18 Becoming Rhinoceros-Skinned: Learning to Jump the Hurdles
19 “School Sick”: Avoiding Detection 20 Dyslexia and Murder? 21 A Parent’s Worst Nightmare 22 The String Inside My Head:
Struggles and Triumphs 23 Drowning, Diving, and Surfacing
Part IV: Solutions 24 Teaching Basic Skills 25 Technology and Other Ways of
Helping People with Learning Disabilities
26 The Great Cover-Up: What Parents Should Know to Avoid Being Victims of the System
27 The Road AheadAcknowledgementsPermissionsBibliographyIndex
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Peggy McCardle
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Pacific Educational Press Faculty of Education University of British Columbia 411–2389 Health Sciences Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
Note: For international callers, Canada’s country code is 1.
BOOK SPECIFICATIONS:Trade paperback 6″ × 9″ • 296 pp • Price: $29.00Publication date: September 2013 ISBN: 978-1-926966-29-8 ebook ISBN: 978-1-926966-30-4 For ebook availability, see our website.
Phone: 604-827-2232 or toll-free in Canada and the US 1-855-827-2232 Fax: 604-822-6603 Email: [email protected] Website: www.pacificedpress.ca
UnderStandInG DYSLEXIA andother LEARNINGDISABILITIESLinda Siegel
PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL PRESS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR LINDA SIEGEL is a professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the Univer-sity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada where she holds the Dorothy C. Lam Chair in Special Education. She has conducted research on the development of reading and of mathematical con-cepts, language development, dyslexia, mathematical learning dis-abilities, early identification and intervention to prevent reading
difficulties, and the development of reading and language skills in children learning English as a second language. She has consulted on the development of reading skills in elementary school age children in China (Hong Kong, Xian, Guangzhou, and Shen Zhen), Barbados, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, and many places in the US and Canada. In 2010, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Canadian Psychology from the Canadian Psychological Association. In 2012, she received the inaugural Eminent Researcher Award from the organization Learning Difficulties Australia. She has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden).
FOREWORD AUTHOR PEGGY MCCARDLE is President of Peggy McCardle Consulting, LLC, and former Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.