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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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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

2014
Abstract The term “specific learning disability” (SLD) applies to specific areas of academic learning in subjects who are intellectually normal, with normal vision and hearing, who do not have any chronic medical or mental disease, and who receive adequate education—but still do not succeed academically.
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Children with Specific Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1971
In this study 82 children with specific learning disabilities (CLD) and 34 controls with adequate academic performance were given the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC). The CLD group scored lower, on the average, than the control group, particularly on Arithmetic, Digit Span, In formation, and Similarities.
Peggy T. Ackerman, John E. Peters, Roscoe A. Dykman   +2 more
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The Search for Subtypes of Specific Learning Disability

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1984
This month's Topical Review discusses recent research that has attempted to divide the general population of learning-disabled children into a variety of different subtypes. The research is important because it is the first sustained attempt to deal with one of the most troublesome problems in the field: the heterogeneity of learning-disabled children.
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Specific Learning Disabilities: A Neuropsychological Perspective

International Journal of Neuroscience, 1997
A dispersion in cognitive abilities is expected in normal populations. Specific learning disabilities would represent an extreme polarity in a continuum of normal cognitive dispersion. Three propositions relative to learning disabilities are advanced in the present paper.
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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 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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Identifying Specific Learning Disability

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2005
Responsiveness to intervention (RTI) is being proposed as an alternative model for making decisions about the presence or absence of specific learning disability. I argue that there are many questions about RTI that remain unanswered, and radical changes in proposed regulations are not warranted at this time. Many fundamental issues related to RTI are
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Specific Learning Disabilities

Clinical Pediatrics, 1967
K, Glaser, R L, Clemmens
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