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Shenoy, Sunaina – Berkeley Review of Education, 2014
English language learners (ELLs) who are in the process of acquiring English as a second language for academic purposes, are often misidentified as having Language Learning Disabilities (LLDs). Policies regarding the assessment of ELLs have undergone many changes through the years, such as the introduction of a Response to Intervention (RTI)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Impairments, Language Skills
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Wagovich, Stacy A.; Pak, Youngju; Miller, Margaret D. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: Natural reading experiences provide an opportunity for the development of orthographic word knowledge as well as other forms of partial word knowledge. The purpose of this study was to compare the orthographic word knowledge growth of school-age children with relatively low language skills (LL group) to that of age- and gender-matched…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Story Reading, Skill Development, Check Lists
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Benner, Gregory J.; Mattison, Richard E.; Nelson, J. Ron; Ralston, Nicole C. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of four types of language disorders among public school students (N = 152) classified as Emotional Disturbance (ED). We also examined the association of the types of language disorders experienced by these students with specific learning disabilities and clinical levels of specific types of…
Descriptors: Incidence, Emotional Disturbances, Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments