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    Taking on a Learning Disability: At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning

     
    Taking on a Learning Disability: At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning

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    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.

    Product details

    EAN/ISBN:
    9781617357862
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    176
    Publication date:
    2012-08-01
    Publisher:
    Information Age Publishing
    EAN/ISBN:
    9781617357862
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    176
    Publication date:
    2012-08-01
    Publisher:
    Information Age Publishing

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