Overcoming Learning Disabilities

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).