Understanding children's hearts and minds: Emotional functioning and...

Teaching Exceptional Children;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......explores the connections between learning disabilities and emotional problems. Emotional Aspects of Learning Disabilities Abrams (1986) stated, "The vast majority of children with learning disabilities have some emotional problem associated...

Going forward: how the field of learning disabilities has and will...

Learning Disability Quarterly;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The field of learning disabilities has a past that it will never escape...education of students who do not have learning disabilities. Research generated under the auspices of learning disabilities has permitted the field to reject...

Learning disabilities as functions of familial learning problems and...

Exceptional Children;  March 1, 1991 ;     700+ words ...Learning Disabilities as Functions of Familial Learning...concerning the definition of learning disabilities has emerged in the literature...National Joint Committee for Learning Disabilities (NJCLD) which defined the term...

The Americans with Disabilities Act and adults with learning disabilities...

Remedial and Special Education;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Adults with learning disabilities, ages 19 to 32, were...under-utilized by individuals with learning disabilities in the workplace, Self-disclosu...consideration by the field of learning disabilities. ********** AT THE SIGNING...

Creating a successful learning environment for postsecondary students with...

Journal of College Reading and Learning;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......especially those students with learning disabilities, isn't as simple as it may first...students, and especially those with learning disabilities, in my classroom? One answer to...encourage and enable students with learning disabilities, and indeed, all students, to become...

Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities, Ad Council Launch Learning...

U.S. Newswire;  March 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ......American school children with learning disabilities. In March, the Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities (CCLD) and The Advertising...national conference of the Learning Disabilities Association of America on...

Learning Disabilities Association to Bring 5,000 Teachers, Parents,...

U.S. Newswire;  March 5, 1998 ;     400 words ......symposia and personal stories about learning disabilities at The Learning Disabilities Association of America's 35th Annual...addition, the Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities (CCLD), composed of six leading...

Invisible scholars: students with learning disabilities.

Journal of Higher Education;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Increasing numbers of students with learning disabilities enroll in college (Hartman &...Gillespie-Silver, 1992). Students with learning disabilities have been found to have essentially...Rehabilitation Act of 1973 defined learning disabilities to be a handicapping condition...

GOV. GRANHOLM PROCLAIMS OCTOBER AS LEARNING DISABILITIES AWARENESS MONTH

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 1, 2007 ;     308 words ......research found that learning disabilities are associated with...function; and, Whereas, Learning disabilities are often invisible...be identified with learning disabilities; and, Whereas, Thirty-sev...

Computer aversion among students with and without learning disabilities

Journal of College Student Development;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The number of students with learning disabilities entering post-secondary programs...percentage of children with specific learning disabilities from two to six percent of total...increase since 1978 (Henderson, 1992). Learning disabilities can involve visual processing speed...

On babies and bathwater: addressing the problems of identification of...

Learning Disability Quarterly;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......review problems in identification of learning disabilities and consider proposed alternatives...criteria for identification of learning disabilities, and that radically altering or...eliminating current conceptualizations of learning disabilities may amount to throwing the baby...

Identifying and teaching children with learning disabilities in general...

JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......nine-year-old child with learning disabilities in my class approached...the complex area of learning disabilities, to provide tips on...with various types of learning disabilities, and to offer suggestions...

Prologue to the special issue on adults with learning...

Remedial and Special Education;  November 1, 2003 ;     427 words ......have been done in the field of learning disabilities over the past 30 years. Initially...needs of children and youth with learning disabilities also stressed in appropriate legislation...disabilities, including those with learning disabilities, to a free and appropriate public...

Curing our 'epidemic' of learning disabilities. (discarding misconceptions...

Phi Delta Kappan;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......must discard the concept of learning disabilities entirely, in favor of a new...school personnel of having learning disabilities. My son's teacher thinks that he has learning disabilities, too, confided the second...

Learning Disabilities, Schooling, and Society.

Phi Delta Kappan;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......for identifying and dealing with learning disabilities reflects, to a large extent, political...children. THE FEDERAL definition of learning disabilities defines specific learning disabilities in a way that makes three key points...