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Article: Preventing school failure: students with learning disabilities have special instructional needs. (includes related information)
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- The Exceptional Parent
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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In the last 20 years, our understanding of many specific learning disabilities has grown significantly. Among the various learning disabilities, disorders of language comprehension, language expression, reading and writing are the most common. Up to 80 percent of the children we categorize as having learning disabilities, in fact, have disorders of language. These language-based disorders include reading and writing disabilities.
Through research we know that listening, speaking, reading and writing are closely related language skills. For example, preschool children with disorders of oral language-meaning listening and speaking--usually develop difficulties learning ...