Handbook of Educational Psychology and Students with Special Needs 1st Edition by Andrew Martin ISBN 1351586742 9781351586740

1. Introduction: Educational Psychology and Students with Special Needs

Part I: Students with Special Needs and Educational Psychology

2. Specific Learning Disabilities as a Working Memory Deficit: A Model Revisited

3. Identifying and Supporting Students with Affective Disorders in Schools: Academic Anxieties and Emotional Information Processing

4. The Importance of Self-determination and Inclusion for Students with Intellectual Disability: What We Know and What We Still Need to Discover

5. The Roles of Executive Functions in Learning and Achievement

6. Language Impairments: Challenges and Opportunities for Meeting Children’s Needs and Insights from Psycho-Educational Theory and Research

7. Understanding the Development and Instruction of Reading for English Learners with Learning Disabilities

8. Developmental Disability

9. Child Maltreatment: Pathways to Educational Achievement through Self-Regulation and Self-Regulated Learning

10. Behavioral Disorder: Theory, Research, and Practice

Part II: Perspectives from Major Educational Psychology Theories

11. Social Cognitive Theory, Self-Efficacy, and Students with Disabilities: Implications for Students with Learning Disabilities, Reading Disabilities, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

12. Self-Determination and Autonomous Motivation: Implications for Students with Intellectual, Developmental, and Specific Learning Disabilities

13. Using Self-Regulated Learning to Support Students with Learning Disabilities in Classrooms

14. Goal Concepts for Understanding and Improving the Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities

15. Using Cognitive Load Theory to Improve Text Comprehension for Students with Dyslexia

16. Self-worth Theory and Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

17. The Relevance of Expectancy–Value Theory to Understanding the Motivation and Achievement of Students with Cognitive and Emotional Special Needs: Focus on Depression and Anxiety

18. Control-Value Theory and Students with Special Needs Achievement Emotion Disorders and Their Links to Behavioral Disorders and Academic Difficulties

Part III: Special Needs and Constructs Relevant to Psycho-Educational Development

19. Improving Learning in Students with Mathematics Difficulties: Contributions from the Science of Learning

20. Writing and Students with Learning Disabilities

21. Reasoning Skills in Individuals with Mathematics Difficulties

22. Interpersonal Relationships and Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives from Theory of Mind and Neuroscience

23. Student Engagement and Learning: Attention, Behavioral, and Emotional Difficulties in School

24. Examining Academic Self-Concepts and the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect in Relation to Inclusive and Segregated Classroom Environments for Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities

25. Cultural and Sociocultural Influences and Learners with Special Needs

26. Technology and Its Impact on Reading for Students with Learning Disabilities

27. The Relevance of Neuroscience to Understanding Achievement in Special Needs Children

28. Conclusion: Future Directions in the Application of Educational Psychology to Students with Special Needs

Contributors

Index