Anglický jazyk

Taking on a Learning Disability

Vydavateľstvo: Information Age Publishing
Rok vydania: 2012
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 240 x 161 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781617357879

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O knihe

In the United States, approximately 2.5 million students are diagnosed as having
a learning disability and the majority of those children are placed in special
education because of an inability to read as expected. As a result of this
diagnosis, these children may be placed in special education classrooms -
classrooms that are separate from the 'mainstream' population. For children
with learning disabilities, there is likely no place, other than in school, where a
student's inability to read as expected leads to this separation from his/her peers.
Once school is over, these children play alongside the kids in their
neighborhoods, participate in sports teams, and attend community activities.
This book looks at the impact of being labeled as learning disabled and
separated from peers in school through the eyes of Samson, a middle school
student described both as learning disabled and a non-reader. This qualitative case study explores how Samson,
his family, his teachers and this researcher make sense of special education and the complexities of learning to
read as an adolescent.
Throughout this book, there is a contrasting of the laws and procedures designed to guide special
education, with the actual experiences of those impacted by these laws and procedures. Through the three years
that Samson was in middle school, this book investigates his perspective on his classes, his interpretation of what
it means to 'be' a student in special education, and the process by which he learns to read. How disability gets
created, contested, and discussed is highlighted through the many contexts
that allow disability to be recognized and to fade into the background.