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Article: How variable are interstate prevalence rates of learning disabilities and other special education categories? A longitudinal comparison.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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There has been chronic and widespread dissatisfaction with procedures used to identify students as learning disabled. Critics have especially questioned the use of ability-achievement discrepancy as a criterion for eligibility for special education services (Donovan & Cross, 2002; Fletcher et al., 2002; Lyon et al., 2001; Siegel, 1989, 1992; Stanovich, 1991, 1993; U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, OSERS, 2002; Vellutino et al., 1996). Because of such extensive discontent with discrepancy as a method of identification, the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004) now allows an alternative method ...