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Article: Invisible scholars: students with learning disabilities.
- Article from:
- Journal of Higher Education
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
- Author:
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Increasing numbers of students with learning disabilities enroll in college (Hartman & Krulwich, 1984; Milne, 1989; Satcher, 1992; Shea, 1994; Wilczenski & Gillespie-Silver, 1992). Students with learning disabilities have been found to have essentially the same motives for obtaining a college degree as their nondisabled peers: to obtain further education or training, to learn a particular skill, to go to college because everybody else goes, to go because a family member wants them to go, to earn a degree, or to fulfill a desire for future meaningful employment (Faland & Haulbich, 1981; Harrison, 1982; Milne, 1989).
The term "learning disabled" describes a ...