Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cruickshank, William M.

Description

1. xiv, 317 pages illustrations; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Prentice-Hall series in special education

Uniform title

1. Prentice-Hall series in special education

Subject

1. Learning disabilities
2. Learning, Psychology of
3. Perceptual-motor learning
4. Special education
5. Education, Special
6. Learning Disabilities
7. special education
8. Special education
9. Learning disabilities
10. Learning, Psychology of
11. Perceptual-motor learning
12. Kind
13. Lernbehinderung
14. Lernstörung
15. Pädagogische Psychologie
16. Leermoeilijkheden
17. Kinderen

Contents

1. : Learning disability as a category ; A Pandora's box is opened ; The error is made ; This book -- Etiological factors : Neuroclinical factors ; Nutritional factors, mental retardation, and learning problems ; Cultural deprivations ; Theoretical models ; Intellectual development and academic achievement ; Environmental factors in deprivation ; Bioneural results of deprivation ; Studies of differential stimulation ; Studies of sociological variables -- Investigators in the historical development of learning disabilities : Alfred Strauss and Heinz Werner, investigative pioneers ; Perceptual-motor theorists within the field of learning disabilities ; Language disability theorists within the field of learning disabilities ; Neuropsychological pioneers ; Toward integration ; International expansion -- Historical trends within the literature : Methodology ; Results of the abstract analysis -- Perceptual-motor development and its relation to cognition and academic achievement : Strauss and Werner relate perceptual and conceptual development ; Theoretical and empirical support for a perception-cognition relationship ; Theoretical and empirical support for a perception-academic achievement relationship ; The relative importance of different sensory modes at different age levels ; Theoretical speculations concerning an age-related, sensory-modal shift ; Perceptual and perceptual-motor problems as possible causes of difficulties in cognition and academic achievement -- The efficacy of perceptual-motor training : The doman-delacato approach ; Studies on mentally retarded populations ; Studies on learning disabled populations ; Studies on "disadvantaged" populations ; Studies on undifferentiated (normal) populations ; Research not definitive -- Attention and motor control : Pathological attention and motor control ; Learning disabilities and the mainstream of psychology: a need for integration -- Future directions : An interdisciplinary responsibility ; Research policy ; The educational match and prototype programs ; Teacher evaluation.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 273-310.