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Armineh E. Hallaran; Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We use critical qualitative methods to demonstrate how ambiguities present in definitions of learning disability (LD) and processes for determining LD eligibility under IDEA result in inequitable outcomes for minoritized students. To investigate this issue, we first outline how the LD label is situated within medical and psychological…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Educational Policy, Definitions
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Fiorello, Catherine A.; Flanagan, Dawn P.; Hale, James B. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Unlike ability-achievement discrepancy and response-to-intervention approaches, the processing strengths and weaknesses (PSW) approach is the only empirically based approach that attempts to identify the pattern of deficit in the basic psychological processes that interferes with academic achievement for children with specific learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Disabilities, Disabilities, Educational Legislation
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Watson, Michael D., Jr.; Simon, Joan B.; Nunnley, Lenora – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2016
IDEA 2004 opened the door for states, and in some cases districts, to choose among three different methods for identifying children with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs). This study provides an in-depth look at SLD identification practices in a state that allows school psychologists to use any of the three methods. Eighty-four school…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, School Psychologists, Disability Identification, Disabilities
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Schultz, Edward Karl; Simpson, Cynthia G.; Lynch, Sharon – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) and subsequent regulations published in 2006 have significantly changed the identification process for students suspected of having specific learning disabilities. Rather than using a discrepancy model contrasting intellectual and achievement test results, assessment…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Learning Disabilities, Achievement Tests, Response to Intervention
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Strickland, Tricia K.; Maccini, Paula – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The current study focuses on the effects of incorporating multiple visual representations on students' conceptual understanding of quadratic expressions embedded within area word problems and students' procedural fluency of transforming quadratic expressions in standard form to factored-form and vice versa. The intervention included the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Secondary School Mathematics, Learning Disabilities
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Keenan, Walter R.; Shaw, Stan F. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The legal basis for serving students with learning disabilities at the K-12 level is predominantly derived from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This federal law provides for substantive education support for students with learning disabilities through an Individualized Educational Program (IEP). However, because the IDEA…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities
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Madaus, Joseph W.; Shaw, Stan F.; Miller, Wayne K.; Banerjee, Manju; Vitello, Stanley – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA 2004) requires that each local education agency provide a transition summary document, commonly called a Summary of Performance (SOP), to all special education students who are graduating with a regular diploma or reaching the maximum age for services. However, other than specifying…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, School Districts, State Departments of Education, Special Education
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Dunn, Michael; Browning, Ruth – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Many schools across the United States and Canada are now implementing response-to-intervention (RTI) as a means to address the needs of students who struggle with reading, writing, or math by using dual discrepancy (i.e., low ability and little to no progress over time with targeted intervention programming) as a means to classify for learning…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Literacy, Foreign Countries, Response to Intervention
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Lindstrom, Jennifer H.; Lindstrom, Will – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
In order to gain access to accommodations and services at colleges and universities, students with learning disabilities must provide documentation of their disabilities, and as students with learning disabilities access higher education at increasing rates, the need for documentation of their disabilities and its impact becomes even more…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education
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Cameto, Renee; Knokey, Anne-Marie; Sanford, Christopher – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Using data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, this article examines the postsecondary education participation of a nationally representative sample of young adults with learning disabilities who received services in secondary school under IDEA. The following points are discussed: 1) enrollment in postsecondary education and the…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Adolescents, Young Adults
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Fox, Laurie – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
In 1970, this first program supporting college students with language-based learning disabilities was a radical pioneer. While an exemplar for 40 years, there are fresh challenges today in the form of competition for diminished numbers of 18 year olds. To better understand what helps and what matters to students, research needs to go beyond most…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Executive Function, Longitudinal Studies
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Birnbaum, Barry W.; Kritikos, Effie Papoutsis – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
The law clearly states how assistive technology is to be used for children with learning disabilities. This article focuses upon the different types of technology that can be used for children with learning disabilities and provides an overview of the different types of technology available. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology, Children
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Hallahan, Daniel P.; Cohen, Sandra B. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Students with learning disabilities are not receiving "special" education, which is based on the core principles of intensive, relentless, structured, appropriately paced instruction in small groups with frequent monitoring of each student's progress. We believe that the diminution of special education for students with learning…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Educational Practices, Special Education, Student Needs
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Lindstrom, Jennifer H.; Tuckwiller, Elizabeth D. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Important legal and policy changes in recent years have made postsecondary education an increasingly viable option for students with learning disabilities. These include substantive changes in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004) in the area of transition planning, research examining the importance of a college degree on…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Learning Disabilities, High Stakes Tests, Student Characteristics
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Cortiella, Candace; Mather, Nancy; Diller, Lawrence; Goldstein, Sam – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Forest Grove School District v. T.A. involved a student with learning disabilities, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and depression (T.A.) whose parents had moved him to a private academy for students with special needs without first consulting with his public school. In the past, the school district had found T.A. to be ineligible…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Public Schools, Private Schools, Individualized Education Programs
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