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On the Many Terms for Developmental Language and Learning Impairments
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Lisa M. D. Archibald – Discover Education, 2024
The terms Language Disorder, Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), Language-based learning disabilities, Specific Learning Disorder, and Specific Learning Disability are commonly used to describe children struggling to learn at school. In this position paper, the definitions and distinctions between these terms are discussed, and key overlaps and…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments, Students with Disabilities
On the Many Terms for Developmental Language and Learning Impairments
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Lisa Archibald – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
The terms Language Disorder, Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), Language-based learning disabilities, Specific Learning Disorder, and Specific Learning Disability are commonly used to describe children struggling to learn at school. In this position paper, the definitions and distinctions between these terms are discussed, and key overlaps and…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments, Students with Disabilities
Discrepancy Model to RtI: Gauging Teacher Preparedness for This Shift in Specific Learning Disability Classification
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Joseph A. Hogan – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2025
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) allows alternate pathways for school districts to identify and classify students with a specific learning disability (SLD). Response to Intervention (RtI) is one of the frameworks schools can use when eliminating the use of the discrepancy model. The premise of RtI posits that…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Classification
Exploring Individual Changes in Disability Status and Their Relations to Reading Comprehension Development
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Aleksander Kocaj; Kai S. Cortina; Anita F. Vereb; Joanne F. Carlisle – Remedial and Special Education, 2025
This study used data from the U.S. state of Michigan schools participating in the "Reading First" program to examine the stability of students' disability status in Grades 1 to 3. Reading First aimed to improve at-risk students' reading comprehension through research-based instruction. We analyzed how changes in students' disability…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Students with Disabilities, Grade 1, Grade 2
Promoting Science in Specific Learning Disabilities: Three Kinds of Challenges
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Dimitris Anastasiou – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2024
The field of specific learning disabilities (SLDs) has faced three kinds of challenges. "Constitutional challenges" arise from classification and definitional complexities, identification issues, comorbidity, and ontological debates. "Internal challenges" include the inherent difficulties of scientific thinking that compete…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Accessibility (for Disabled), Conflict, Classification
Implementation of RtI as a Part of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support: What Teachers, Administrators, and Teacher Educators Need to Know
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Susan Polirstok; Joseph A. Hogan – Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2024
Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) is an outgrowth of Response to Intervention (RtI). The various systems of support for students and school communities provided through these programs are integral to modern education and embedded in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) of 2004. While there are many benefits to…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Response to Intervention, Program Implementation, Educational Legislation