Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Strategies & Activities for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities, New Second Edition

by Joan M. Harwell

This important resource offers diagnostic tools, remedial techniques, sample lessons, and worksheets to quickly identify students with learning deficits, improve their academic performance, and bolster their self-esteem. Includes assessment forms, problem-specific solutions, and intervention techniques.

Genres: Education

376 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1989

Reviews

[Tia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was the recommended text to use for writing my master's thesis on learning disabilities. While it is not an uninformed book, per se, I found little information or ideas that I have not already read or seen demonstrated and, therefore, with the purpose of furthering my knowledge on the subject, it did very little of that. However, for someone with little experience in special education, it does cover an array of issues accurately.

I am surprised and very put off by the fact that the two authors, who have supposedly worked in special education and wrote a book that is supposed to teach people how to accommodate for and be sensitive to learning disabilities, would continually refer to general education classes as "regular" classes as that belittles these students by inferring that they are not normal.

[Buddy Draper · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book, thinking it would be helpful to me because I’m teaching in a DI room, a centralized room for students with significant developmental disabilities. However, this book would have been beneficial to me over the past three years as I taught students in a general education setting who had disabilities like dyslexia or ADHD, which were the focus of this handbook. It still provided some beneficial big picture thoughts that I can use in this upcoming assignment.

[Nikki McDorman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource for someone coming in with very minimal training and understanding of working with a variety of learning disabilities. I learned a lot here. That said, it's a bit dated (published in 2008), so some of the technology is not really feasible. But the general information was very helpful.

[Jennifer Bowles · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too basic to be useful for professionals. Best for someone just beginning a university-level program or para-professionals who want a basic background of special education.

[Putri Oktavian · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Kim Davidson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This would be an awesome book to have on hand for teachers to use. Each year we get different students in our classrooms with different needs, and having this "go-to" book would be a great reference tool for the regular classroom teacher to help differentiate lessons and understand the students with special needs in a more indepth way.

[Mrs · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is such a great addition to my professional library. I am sure it will be a great resource to me in my new teaching position. I have learned a wealth of information from it already, and the many reproducible resources will be greatly beneficial to my students.