Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities: A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

The concise guide to successfully teaching students with learning disabilities! What is to be done to help a student who does not have an obvious special education condition, but whose expected achievement on certain academic tasks falls short of his or her actual achievement-despite evidence-based instruction? Let Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities be your guide! This compact resource describes the characteristics associated with learning disabilities, and offers practical teaching strategies proven to increase the success rate of these students both in and outside the classroom. Highlights include:A pretest and posttest to help readers assess their understanding of the nature of learning disabilities and how they are best addressed Cognitive, academic, communicational, physical, and behavioral characteristics that are associated with learning disabilities Strategies to improve the work habits and study skills of students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD Highly effective methods for improving the performance of students with learning disabilities in reading, writing, and mathematics Key vocabulary terms.