RETHINKING LEARNING DISABILITIES Understanding Children Who Struggle in School

Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it. Leading researcher and clinician Deborah Waber offers an alternative to the prevailing view of learning disability as a problem contained within the child. Instead,...

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Main Author: Waber, Deborah P. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Guilford Press 2010
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