Erik von Hahn - Essential Skills for Struggling Learners: A Framework for Student Support Teams

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hahn, Erik von, author. | Horowitz, Sheldon H., author. | Linse, Caroline T., author.

Title: Essential skills for struggling learners: A framework for student support teams / by Erik von Hahn with Sheldon H. Horowitz and Caroline Linse.

Description: Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing, Co., [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019008002 (print) | ISBN 9781681252551 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Learning disabilities. | Learning disabled childrenEducation. | Slow learning childrenEducation. | Remedial teaching.

Classification: LCC LC4704 .H337 2020 (print) | LCC LC4704 (ebook) | DDC 371.9dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019008002

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019980460

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Table of Contents

A Note on the Chapter Appendices

Each chapter includes appendices that offer two practical forms for use by school professionals. The first, the Skills Framework, functions as a quick reference tool, offering a summary of the key skills, behaviors that indicate learning difficulty as related to that skill, and sample educational objectives and strategies presented in each chapter. The second, the Skills Observation Sheet, provides structure for observing and taking notes on a students skills and behaviors.

Purchasers of this book may download, print, and/or photocopy the Skills Frameworks and Skills Observation Sheets for professional, educational, or clinical use. These materials are included with the print book and are also available at www.brookespublishing.com/Hahn/material for both print and e-book buyers.

About the Authors

Erik von Hahn, M.D.

Dr. Erik von Hahn has worked with children with diverse disabilities for more than 20 years. He has extensive consultative relationships with schools, especially in Massachusetts, and earlier in his career in New Hampshire. He has developed a deep understanding of children with disabilities, as seen through the lens of the school professionals who serve them.

In addition to his consultative practice with schools, Dr. von Hahn maintains a clinical practice in a teaching hospital. He uses his experience working with schools to help families in the clinic communicate successfully with their childs school team. As part of his academic duties, Dr. von Hahn has substantial teaching duties with Tufts University School of Medicine. He provides training and supervision of future Developmental-Behavioral Pediatricians, future general pediatricians, and future allied health care professionals in social work, speech pathology, and psychology. Finally, Dr. von Hahn provides regular continuing education services to both educators and local general pediatricians in their practice. Successful service to children with disabilities occurs when adults can work successfully with one another. All of Dr. von Hahns clinical and teaching encounters emphasize service to children with disabilities through collaboration among home, school, and clinic.

Sheldon H. Horowitz, Ed.D.

Dr. Sheldon H. Horowitz is a Senior Advisor at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Prior to his arrival at NCLD, he directed hospital-based evaluation and treatment programs in outpatient psychiatry and in developmental and behavioral pediatrics, as well as having taught at the primary, secondary, and college levels, and served as a consultant to school districts throughout the New York City metropolitan region. He has published in the areas of fetal alcohol effects in children, language-based learning disabilities, and disorders of hyperactivity and attention and has contributed content and expertise to several web sites in the area of learning disabilities. Dr. Horowitz is a regular presenter at professional conferences and is frequently cited in the popular press on topics including parenting children with learning disabilities and other special needs, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, assessment and evaluation, evidence-based interventions, parent advocacy and special education policy reform, post-secondary transition, and LD throughout the life span.

Caroline Linse, Ed.D.

Dr. Caroline Linse is a Senior Lecturer at Queens University, Belfast, where she teaches in the School of Social Sciences Education and Social Work. She teaches in the TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) program and works directly with current and future teachers who must address cultural and linguistic diversity as a core element of the instruction that they deliver. She has worked in a variety of countries with learners and teachers from different cultural and linguistic traditions.

Acknowledgments

Erik von Hahn

In addition to thanking my collaborating authors for sharing their knowledge, wisdom, and insights, I would like to thank personally the following mentors and colleagues for countless reasons that can never be captured fully, but are summarized here:

Judith Palfrey, M.D.: For bringing me to Boston and introducing me to the world of developmental-behavioral pediatrics

Kathleen Braden, M.D., and Carol Curtin, LICSW: For believing in me

Gordon Harper, M.D., and Joshua Sparrow, M.D.: For teaching me about how to speak with children

The School Partnership Program at Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center, in Greenfield, NH: For teaching me about educational practices and therapeutics in schools and for helping me to lay the groundwork for this book