Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors, Third Edition, uses the Building Blocks model to connect learning difficulties with behavior and classroom conditions. Nancy Mather, Sam Goldstein, and Katie Eklund organize assessment and intervention around twelve interacting factors, helping educators and school psychologists examine students' strengths, needs, and patterns of difficulty.
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The Building Blocks framework considers the factors beneath visible academic and behavioral difficulties. Its three levels address foundations such as attention, self-regulation, emotion, and self-esteem; academic processes including phonological awareness, memory, and executive functions; and applications involving language, motivation, and social cognition.
A questionnaire helps organize observations into a profile of student strengths and needs. The discussion then connects assessment findings with educational goals, classroom management, and intervention planning. Coverage includes Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, multi-tiered systems of support, and social-emotional learning. Teachers, special educators, and school psychologists can use the model as a structure for considering academic and behavioral concerns together.
Mather, Goldstein and Eklund organise learning difficulties and behaviour around the Building Blocks model. Twelve interacting factors connect assessment with intervention, helping educators and school psychologists examine strengths, needs and patterns rather than treating academics and conduct separately. The model spans foundations, academic processes and classroom application.
The Building Blocks framework looks beneath visible academic and behavioural difficulties to the factors that sustain them. Its three levels address foundations such as attention, self-regulation, emotion and self-esteem; academic processes including phonological awareness, memory and executive functions; and applications involving language, motivation and social cognition. A questionnaire helps turn observations into a profile of strengths and needs, which then connects to educational goals, classroom management and intervention planning. Coverage includes Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports, multi-tiered systems of support and social-emotional learning. Teachers, special educators and school psychologists can use the model as a shared structure for considering academic and behavioural concerns together.
The model treats learning and behaviour as connected rather than separate concerns. Twelve interacting factors are arranged in three levels, giving educators a structure for seeing how difficulties cluster and reinforce one another.
The first level addresses capacities that support learning generally. Attention, self-regulation, emotion and self-esteem are treated as foundations whose condition affects what a student can do academically and behaviourally.
The second level turns to processes that drive academic work. Phonological awareness, memory and executive functions explain why some students struggle with reading or organisation even when effort is present.
The third level links underlying processes to application. Language, motivation and social cognition show how a student's difficulties appear in communication, engagement and relationships with peers and teachers.
A questionnaire turns observation into a profile. Organising findings around strengths and needs allows assessment to guide goals and support rather than simply label a student.
Assessment leads into planning. Educational goals, classroom management and intervention connect academic progress with behavioural support, drawing on PBIS, multi-tiered systems and social-emotional learning.
Teachers, special educators and school psychologists who want a structured model for assessing learning difficulties and planning behavioural and academic support.
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Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors, Third Edition, uses the Building Blocks model to connect learning difficulties with behavior and classroom conditions. Nancy Mather, Sam Goldstein, and Katie Eklund organize assessment and intervention around twelve interacting factors, helping educators and school psychologists examine students' strengths, needs, and patterns of difficulty.
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Teachers, special educators and school psychologists who want a structured model for assessing learning difficulties and planning behavioural and academic support.
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