Rethinking Learning Disabilities

I. The Developmental Approach to Learning Disabilities 1. The Dilemma: What Is a Learning Disability?2. A Learning Disability Is a Developmental Problem3. A Developmental Science Perspective on Learning Disabilities4. A Lifespan Perspective on Learning Disabilities5. Identifying Learning Disabilities: A Developmental Approach6. Insights from Cognitive Neuroscience: Automatic and Effortful ProcessingII. Diagnosing the Child-World Interaction 7. Identical Twins8. An Adequate Achiever with Learning Problems9. Beyond a "Reading Problem"10. Learning-Disabled Children Grown Up11. A Developmental Strategy for Resolving the DilemmaAppendix. Publications of the Children's Hospital Boston Learning Disabilities Research Center