UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 5, Page 10
October 1, 1992
Faculty author releases new book
New to the well-respected Developing Child series of books
published by Harvard University Press is The Learning Disabled Child
by Sylvia Farnham-Diggory, H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus of
Educational Studies and Psychology.
The new volume is her second book in the series of more than 20
books published by renowned researchers in the field of child
development.
The 288-page book offers valuable advice to parents seeking the
best methods of diagnostic evaluation of learning disabilities and to
teachers in search of the most effective means of helping these
children.
The book attempts to answer that question and provides a
broad-based account of what is currently known and done about learning
disabilities. It gets at the roots of the problem-in the law, in the
school system and in the child- and offers a new outlook for
treatment.
Farnham-Diggory makes poignantly clear that since the l970s
millions of children have been misclassified as learning-disabled,
while many others with true learning disabilities have gone
unidentified.
Additionally, the book describes advanced research and clinical
data that clarify handicaps in reading, writing, spelling, drawing,
calculation, remembering and problem-solving.
Farnham-Diggory, who joined the Delaware faculty in 1976, also is
the author of Schooling, in the Developing Child series.
-Beth Thomas