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Article: Mathematics screening and progress monitoring at first grade: implications for responsiveness to intervention.(Brief article)
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- Exceptional Children
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- March 22, 2007
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Individuals with learning disabilities constitute approximately 5% of the school-age population (U.S. Department of Education, 2000). Because of the additional costs involved in educating this population, as well as the potential stigma associated with a disability label, accurate identification is crucial. Yet, the traditional method for identifying these students, which relies on a discrepancy between intelligence and achievement, has come under attack for conceptual and technical problems (see Vaughn & Fuchs, 2003). One model for reorienting learning disabilities identification, codified in the most recent reauthorization of the federal disabilities law, involves ...