Overcoming Learning Disabilities

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.

Author: T. V. Akhutina, Tatiana V. Akhutina, Natalia M. Pylaeva
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/30/2012
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781107013889

About the Author
Akhutina, Tatiana V.: - 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.Pylaeva, Natalia M.: - 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.