Overcoming Learning Disabilities

Abstract

Based on the ideas of Russian psychologists Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria, this book explores methods of preventing or overcoming learning disabilities. Tatiana V. Akhutina and Natalia M. Pylaeva build on Vygotsky and Luria's sociocultural theory and their principle of a systemic structure and dynamic organization of higher mental functions. They focus on the interactive scaffolding of the weak components of the child's functional systems, the transition from joint child-adult co-actions, and the emotional involvement of the child. The authors discuss effective ways to remediate issues with attention, executive functions (working memory and cognitive control) and spatial and visual-verbal functions. Overcoming Learning Disabilities translates complex problems into easily understandable concepts useful to school psychologists, special and general education teachers, and parents of children with learning disabilities.

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Tatiana V. Akhutina, Natalia M. Pylaeva (2012). Overcoming Learning Disabilities. Cambridge University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139012799

@book{v2012overcoming,
  title  = {Overcoming Learning Disabilities},
  author = {Akhutina, Tatiana V. and Pylaeva, Natalia M.},
  year   = {2012},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press eBooks},
  doi    = {10.1017/cbo9781139012799}
}

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