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Heather L. Ramsdell; Lisa Bowers – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), prevention, identification, assessment, and intervention of children who are learning to read and write are within the scope of practice for school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Furthermore, for SLPs who work in the school setting, it is not uncommon to…
Descriptors: Students, Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Emergent Literacy
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Lauren D. Goegan; Damilola Olanrewaju; Gabrielle Young – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2024
A scoping review was conducted to examine current Canadian research on learning disabilities (LD). Ninety-six articles were found in LD specific journals that were written by researchers from Canadian universities between 2013-2023. Their research could be incapsulated into 10 themes: (a) reading and literacy, (b) language and linguistics, (c)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Difficulties
Whitney J. Mahan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Due to lack of consistency among diagnosis practices of students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) in the state of Texas, as well as other legal matters regarding diagnoses of SLD, there is a divide among eligibility criteria for students around the state. Currently, the three models that have received the most attention of SLD…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Clinical Diagnosis
Swati Shende – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Learning disabilities are the most common eligibility category in which children qualify for special education services. Despite this, there is surprisingly little current information on the prevalence and needs of children with math disabilities, and even less information on interventions to support children in schools. This dissertation aimed to…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Educational Diagnosis, Mathematics
Elizabeth Hamilton Fox – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The relationships between response to intervention (RTI) data, cognitive ability, academic achievement, identification methods, and specific learning disability (SLD) identification have been studied extensively in recent years; however, an empirically supported method of identifying a learning disability has yet to be agreed upon. Without a…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Predictor Variables, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis
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Emam, Mahmoud Mohamed; Almehrizi, Rashid; Omara, Ehab; Kazem, Ali Mahdi – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Students at risk for learning disabilities (LD) are overidentified in elementary schools in Oman due to the absence of adequate instruments which teachers can use in validating their observations. Teachers need valid instruments so that their judgment of students' behaviours can help in making academic and non-academic decision. The Learning…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Test Validity