Off Track: When Poor Readers Become ""Learning Disabled""

by Louise Spear-Swerling and Robert J. Sternberg

Book Overview

The identification of poor readers as "learning disabled" can be the first of many steps toward consigning students to a lifetime of reading failure. The very label that is meant to help children often becomes a burden that works against effective learning throughout their schooling. In this book, the authors identify the dangers of labeling children as reading or learning disabled, contending that a "reading disability" is not a unitary phenomenon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813387574
• ISBN13: 9780813387574
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"