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Overcoming Learning Disabilities: A Vygotskian-Lurian Neuropsychological Approach

Overcoming Learning Disabilities: A Vygotskian-Lurian Neuropsychological Approach


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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.

Table of Contents:
Part I. General Issues in Development and Remediation of Higher Mental Functions: 1. Neuropsychology of individual differences in children as the foundation for the application of neuropsychological methods at school; 2. Methodology of neuropsychological intervention in children with uneven development of mental functions; 3. What psychologists, teachers, and parents need to know about children with learning disabilities; 4. Neuropsychological support of remedial and developing education; 5. Neuropsychological approach to development of health preserving educational techniques; Part II. Methods of Development and Remediation of Executive Functions: 6. Organization of joint activity; 7. The 'School of Attention' method - approbation and pilot study of effectiveness; 8. Modified psychological methods to facilitate development of the executive functions; 9. Numerical sequences in the remedial work with the 4th-graders; 10. The role of the analysis of the zone of proximal development in the course of remediation of executive functions: an example; Part III. Methods of Developing Visual-Verbal Functions: 11. Remediation of visual-verbal functions in 5-7 year old children; 12. Perceptual modeling in visual-verbal functions development; Part IV. Methods of Developing Visual-Spatial Functions: 13. Development of visual-spatial functions; 14. 'Construct the figure' methods in assessment and remediation of visual-spatial functions; 15. The use of construction methods to develop spatial functions; 16. Table and computer games to improve spatial functions in children with cerebral palsy; 17. Directions of intervention for developing visual-spatial functions to prepare children for school; 18. Neuropsychologist-teacher collaboration in designing a 'numbers' composition' manual; 19. On visual spatial dysgraphia: neuropsychological analysis and methods of remediation; Part V. Neuropsychological Interventions in Children with Severe Developmental Delay: 20. 'Tracking diagnostics' methods: Case 1. Predominant delay in the development of programming and control functions (unit III); Case 2. Predominant delay in the development of information processing functions (unit II); Case 3. Predominant delay in the development of energy support functions (unit I).

About the Author :
Tatiana V. Akhutina is the head of the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University, and head of the Laboratory of Learning Disabilities at Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. She has published in Russian, English, Spanish, Finnish and German. In 2003 the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology dedicated a special issue to her research on psychology of language and neuropsychology. Natalia M. Pylaeva is neuropsychologist at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She is an author of five books on methods of remediation of learning disabilities (together with T. Akhutina). Her articles and books have been translated into English, Finnish, Slovak and Spanish.

Review :
"...Readers will recognize in this book many ideas that are now common to Russian and North American psychologies, but they also will find many innovative features characteristic of the branch of Russian neuropsychology represented in the volume. Some ideas will be reminiscent of what has been presented in books on Russian psychology in English before, whereas others will be new. All in all, Overcoming Learning Disabilities: A Vygotskian–Lurian Neuropsychological Approach is a wonderful read, connecting the past and the present and the West and the East." --Dr. Elena L. Grigorenko, Yale, Columbia University and Moscow State University, PsycCRITIQUES


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  • ISBN-13: 9781107013889
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 318
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 590 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1107013887
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Vygotskian-Lurian Neuropsychological Approach
  • Width: 152 mm


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