Taking on a Learning Disability – At the Crossroads of Special Education and Ad…

Taking on a Learning DisabilityAt the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning\nAuthor(s): Erin McCloskey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781617357879, 978-1617357879\nSynopsis\nIn the United States, approximately [url] 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 students 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 loo.