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Mind, Brain, and Education in Reading Disorders
Kurt Fischer
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Description for Mind, Brain, and Education in Reading Disorders
paperback. Explains why reading disorders have been hard to identify and how mind, brain and education can help to understand them. Editor(s): Fischer, Kurt W.; Bernstein, Jane Holmes; Immordino-Yang, Mary Helen. Series: Cambridge Studies in Cognitive & Perceptual Development. Num Pages: 352 pages, 37 b/w illus. 15 tables. BIC Classification: JMC; JMM; MMZR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 558.
One of the key topics for establishing meaningful links between brain sciences and education is the development of reading. How does biology constrain learning to read? How does experience shape the development of reading skills? How does research on biology and behaviour connect to the ways that schools, teachers and parents help children learn to read, particularly in the face of disabilities that interfere with learning? This book addresses these questions and illuminates why reading disorders have been hard to identify, how recent research has established a firm base of knowledge about the cognitive neuroscience of reading problems and the ... Read more
One of the key topics for establishing meaningful links between brain sciences and education is the development of reading. How does biology constrain learning to read? How does experience shape the development of reading skills? How does research on biology and behaviour connect to the ways that schools, teachers and parents help children learn to read, particularly in the face of disabilities that interfere with learning? This book addresses these questions and illuminates why reading disorders have been hard to identify, how recent research has established a firm base of knowledge about the cognitive neuroscience of reading problems and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Cognitive & Perceptual Development
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107603226
SKU
V9781107603226
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99-16
About Kurt Fischer
Kurt W. Fischer is Charles Warland Bigelow Professor of Education and Human Development and Director of the Mind, Brian and Education Program in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is founding president of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society and founding editor of the new journal Mind, Brain and Education. Jane Holmes Bernstein is a developmental ... Read more
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