Promoting Academic Readiness for African American Males with Dyslexia: Implications for Preschool to Elementary School Teaching (Paperback or Softback)

Anthony Robinson, Shawn

ISBN 10: 1032239670 / ISBN 13: 9781032239675

Published by Routledge 12/13/2021, 2021

Promoting Academic Readiness for African American Males with Dyslexia: Implications for Preschool to Elementary School Teaching. Seller Inventory # BBS-9781032239675

Synopsis:

This timely book tackles underlying issues that see disproportionate numbers of African American males with dyslexia undiagnosed, untreated, and falling behind their peers in terms of literacy achievement.

Considering factors including dialectic linguistic difference, limited phonological awareness, and the intersectionality of gender, language, and race, the studies included in this volume illustrate how classroom practices at preschool and elementary levels are failing to support students at risk of reading and writing difficulties. Promoting Academic Readiness for African American Males with Dyslexia shows that it is possible to provide every girl and boy, and particularly African American boys with effective support and appropriate interventions enabling them to read at a level that is conducive to ongoing academic performance and success. This, argue the authors of this volume, is vital to the social, emotional, moral, and intellectual development of our society.

This edited volume was originally published as a special issue of Reading & Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties. It will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in the field of African-American Education, Educational Equity, Race studies, Multiple learning difficulties and Literacy development.

About the Author:

Shawn Anthony Robinson is Senior Research Associate in the Wisconsin's Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) and an Instructional Program Manager in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA.

Corey Thompson is Associate Professor at Cardinal Stritch University, USA.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Promoting Academic Readiness for African ...
Publisher: Routledge 12/13/2021
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Paperback or Softback
Condition: New
Book Type: Book