Recently added articles from Journal of Learning Disabilities:

Working memory and learning in children with developmental coordination disorder and specific language impairment.(Report)

May 01, 2008; Packiam Alloway, Tracy ... The extent to which deficits in specific cognitive mechanisms may underlie developmental disorders is a matter of considerable interest in the fields of cognition and cognitive development. The functioning of the working memory system has been implicated in groups of children with marked ...

Emotional and behavioral characteristics over a six-year period in youths with persistent and nonpersistent dyscalculia.(Report)

May 01, 2008; Auerbach, Judith G. ... Although academic and cognitive deficits are hallmarks of children with learning disabilities (LD), these children are also at risk for a broad range of behavioral and emotional problems (Beitchman & Young, 1997). Concurrent LD and behavior problems have been reported for children in early ...

Mothers' causal attributions concerning the reading achievement of their children with and without familial risk for dyslexia.(Report)

May 01, 2008; Natale, Katja ... Despite the considerable literature on children's reading skills and problems in reading, surprisingly little is known about what parents think about their children's early reading development and how such parental conceptions change after children's school entry. One framework within ...

Rapid serial naming is a unique predictor of spelling in children.(Report)

May 01, 2008; Savage, Robert ... A great deal of research shows that average reading L ability and below-average reading ability are best predicted by the somewhat independent effects of phonologically based decoding and rapid naming (Compton, DeFries, & Olson, 2001; Cornwall, 1992; Kirby, Parilla, & Pfeiffer, 2003; ...

Identifying and predicting classes of response to explicit phonological spelling instruction during independent composing.(Report)

May 01, 2008; Amtmann, Dagmar ... Origin and Significance of Response to Instruction In 1993, National Institutes of Health sponsored a working conference for researchers in the field of learning disabilities at which the concept of response to instruction was introduced (Lyon, 1994). Francis, Fletcher, ...

Is there an increased familial prevalence of psychopathology in children with nonverbal learning disorders?(Report)

May 01, 2008; Antshel, Kevin M. ... Learning disabilities (LD) occur in approximately 5% of school-age children (Lyon, 1996), and two major subtypes of LD have been described: children with reading disorders (RD) and children with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD; Drummond, Ahmad, & Rourke, 2005). Compared to RD, far ...

Academic underachievement among children with epilepsy: proportion exceeding psychometric criteria for learning disability and associated risk factors.(Report)

May 01, 2008; Fastenau, Philip S. ... One percent of children will develop epilepsy by 20 years of age (Hauser, 1994). Children with epilepsy are at greater risk for academic difficulties compared to healthy children and compared to those with many other chronic illnesses of childhood (Austin, Huberty, Huster, & Dunn, 1998; ...