A comprehensive look at the various groups of children that professionals encounter in their work according to diagnostic categories, the unique issues that relate to those diagnostic categories, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Perhaps you can get an appreciation for the complexities of language, and why language makes us human, by seeing what happens when children have problems with it. Reed describes in detail the numerous types of learning disabilities that a teacher can face. Some kids might have underdeveloped lexical accumulations, giving rise to a sparse vocabulary and diminished knowledge. They might fixate on literal meanings of some words. Other kids could possess poor word retrieval. Of course, all difficulties with spoken languages invariably ripple through to problems with writing. The foundations of writing stem from those for speech. Various countermeasures are suggested; ie. remedial pedagogies that have been tried by researchers and educators.
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