Handbook of Reading Disability Research

by McGill-Franzen, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780203853016
• ISBN10: 0203853016
• Edition: 1st
• Copyright: 2010-07-27
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Bringing together a wide range of research on reading disabilities, this comprehensive Handbook extends current discussion and thinking beyond a narrowly defined psychometric perspective. Emphasizing that learning to read proficiently is a long-term developmental process involving many interventions of various kinds, all keyed to individual developmental needs, it addresses traditional questions (What is the nature or causes of reading disabilities? How are reading disabilities assessed? How should reading disabilities be remediated? To what extent is remediation possible?) but from multiple or alternative perspectives.Taking incursions into the broader research literature represented by linguistic and anthropological paradigms, as well as psychological and educational research, the volume is on the front line in exploring the relation of reading disability to learning and language, to poverty and prejudice, and to instruction and schooling.The editors and authors are distinguished scholars with extensive research experience and publication records and numerous honors and awards from professional organizations representing the range of disciplines in the field of reading disabilities. Throughout, their contributions are contextualized within the framework of educators struggling to develop concrete instructional practices that meet the learning needs of the lowest achieving readers.

Table of Contents

Pespectives on Reading Disability

Political Contexts of Reading Disability

Historical Contexts for Understanding Reading Disabilities

Poverty and Reading Disabilities

Ethnicity and Reading Disabilities

Home Language and Reading Disabilities

Cognitive Profiles and Reading Disabilities

Biological Characteristics and Reading Disabilities

Neurosciences and Reading Disabilities

Language Development and Reading Disabilities

Socio-cultural Aspects of Reading Disabilities

Critical Theory and Reading Disabilities

Opportunity to Learn and Reading Disabilities

Causes and Consequences of Reading Disabilities

Individual Differences and Reading Disabilities

Home Differences and Reading Disabilities

Summer Setback and Reading Disabilities

Persistence of Reading Disabilities

Gender and Reading Disabilities

Drug Exposure and Reading Disabilities

Aliteracy, Agency, and Identity

Assessing Reading Proficiency

Beliefs and Reading Assessment

.Assessments for Different Goals

Reading Ability as Developing Expertise

Traditions of Reading Diagnosis

Assessing Reading Disabilities in ELL Student

Culturally Relevant Assessment of Reading Disabilities

Developmental Patterns of Reading Proficiency and Difficulties

Emergent Literacy

Word Recognition and Fluency

Vocabulary

Self-regulation

Comprehension

Writing

Discussion

Motivation

Developmental Interventions

Expert Classroom Instruction

Extended Learning Beyond the Classroom

Interventions to Develop the Phonological Systems

Interventions to Develop Decoding Proficiencies

Interventions to Enhance Fluency and Rate of Reading

Interventions to Enhance Vocabulary Development

Interventions to Enhance Narrative Comprehension

Interventions to Enhance Informational Text Comprehension

Interventions to Develop e-text Learning

Studying Reading Disabilities

Teacher Research

Single-subject and Case Study Designs

Experimental Research

Observational Research

Interpretive Research

Large Database Analyses

Survey

Meta-analysis

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