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Article: Differences in mathematics performance between students with learning disabilities and students with mild retardation.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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* Researchers in the special education field have recently discussed the difficulties in identifying students considered mildly disabled and assigning them to categorical groups based on a diagnostic label. On one hand, some researchers have argued that labels provide no instructionally useful information for the individual child and that the link between labels and proper treatment is "tenuous" at best (Heward & Orlansky, 1992, p. 16); other researchers have asserted that because definitions have changed in response to social and political pressures, diagnosis is "largely meaningless" (Reynolds, Wang, & Walberg, 1987).
On the other hand, many researchers have ...