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Challenging biological explanations for the problems faced by almost two million children labeled as "learning disabled," the author examines learning processes and concludes that the key to learning difficulties is found in social and environmental setting, not biological
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Gerald Coles is an educational psychologist and a former professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Learning Mystique: A Critical Look at "Learning Disabilities" and Reading Lessons: The Debate Over Literacy, and numerous articles on education.
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