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Identifying Specific Learning Disabilities

Topics in Language Disorders, 2014
Specific learning disability (SLD) identification and eligibility practices are evolving and sometimes contentious. This article describes the historical context and current status of the SLD definition, legislation, regulation, and case law related to the identification of students eligible for ...
Rebecca O. Zumeta, Perry A. Zirkel, Louis Danielson   +2 more
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Specific Learning Disabilities

2016
This chapter discusses best practices in providing supports for students diagnosed with reading (dyslexia), writing (dysgraphia), and spelling (dysorthographia) deficits. It examines some impacts of these and associated conditions on learning. The recommended strategies for leveraging learning for the identified population are all evidence-based.
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Detecting specific learning disabilities

2017 International Conference on Networks & Advances in Computational Technologies (NetACT), 2017
A child needs education to mold how it sees and learns the world. We have to cater their needs and help them learn, but 1 in 10 children suffer from a learning disability and 1 in 20 people are affected all over the world. Children suffering from a learning disability might face difficulties with reading, writing or mathematics but they excel in other ...
R Akhil, Athul Soori, Dilip Shankar, M Mrinal Krishnan, B R Poorna   +4 more
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Specificity and characteristics of learning disabilities

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background:  The specificity of impairments in specific reading disabilities (SRD) and specific language impairments (SLI) has recently been questioned, with many children recruited for studies of SRD and SLI demonstrating impairments in both reading and oral language development.
Eisenmajer, Natasha., Ross, Nola., Pratt, Chris.   +2 more
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Cognitive impulsivity in specific learning disabilities

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
Many studies on cognitive impulsivity in learning disabled children have been criticized for their methodological limitations, and they have not dealt with the different types of learning disability. The aim of this study was to overcome these limitations and to assess if there was a significant cognitive impulsivity in reading disorder and/or spelling
Renato, Donfrancesco, Daniele, Mugnaini, Andrea, Dell'Uomo   +2 more
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Specific Learning Disabilities

2014
Abstract This online resource is a concise but comprehensive review of Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), with a special attention to the biology of these diverse conditions. It provides a review of most aspects of SLD, including the different clinical syndromes (mostly dyslexia and dyscalculia), the clinical manifestations and the ...
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Specific Learning Disabilities

2018
Abstract Specific learning disability is a common neurodevelopmental disorder affecting about 5–8% of the school-aged population. A key concept in specific learning disabilities is unexpected low achievement. An individual whose achievement in reading, math, or writing is both low and less than what would be expected based on ...
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Specific Learning Disabilities

Clinical Pediatrics, 1967
R L, Clemmens, K, Glaser
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Specific Learning Disability: A Hidden Disability

2019
The chapter ‘Specific Learning Disability: A Hidden Disability’ purports to educate the reader about one of the high incidence disabilities, i.e. specific learning disability (SLD). In the chapter, attempts are made to bring about understanding of the concept of SLD, its characteristics and types.
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Children with Specific Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1971
The Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test protocols of 82 elementary school boys with learning disabilities were scored for developmental errors using the Koppitz system. Sixty-seven % of the children with learning disabilites (CLD), as compared with only 44% of a group of 34 controls, made more errors than the mean for children of equivalent ages in ...
Peggy T. Ackerman, John E. Peters, Roscoe A. Dykman   +2 more
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