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

Learning Disability Quarterly;  March 22, 2005 ;   Lloyd, John Wills Hallahan, Daniel P.;   787 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 ;   Oliver, J.M. Cole, Nancy Hodge Hollingsworth, Holly;   787 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 ;   Price, Lynda Gerber, Paul J. Mulligan, Robert;   787 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 ;   Harrison, Shari;   787 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 ;     787 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...

Invisible scholars: students with learning disabilities.

Journal of Higher Education;  July 1, 1996 ;   Stage, Frances K. Milne, Nancy V.;   787 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 ;   Suthakaran, V; Sedlacek, William E;   787 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 ;   Scruggs, Thomas E. Mastropieri, Margo A.;   787 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 ;   Grosshans, Judd Kiger, Martha;   787 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 ;   Price, Lynda Field, Sharon;   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 ;   Spear-Swerling, Louise Sternberg, Robert J.;   787 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 ;   Sternberg, Robert J. Grigorenko, Elena L.;   787 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...

Perceived control and adaptive coping: programs for adolescent students...

Learning Disability Quarterly;  June 22, 2008 ;   Firth, Nola Frydenberg, Erica Greaves, Daryl;   787 words ......adolescent students who had specific learning disabilities. The coping program was modified...needs of students who have specific learning disabilities. The teacher feedback program emphasized...patterns for students who have learning disabilities. ********** It is increasingly...

SELF-ORGANIZATION AND LEARNING DISABILITIES: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE FOR...

Learning Disability Quarterly;  March 22, 2001 ;   Zera, David Aloyzy Lucian, David G.;   787 words ......common to most definitions of learning disabilities (i.e., the Individuals with...National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD), the Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities (ICLD)), although not always...