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Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Treatment for Specific Learning Disabilities Involving Impairments in Written and/or Oral Language
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Berninger, Virginia W.; May, Maggie O'Malley – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
Programmatic, multidisciplinary research provided converging brain, genetic, and developmental support for evidence-based diagnoses of three specific learning disabilities based on hallmark phenotypes (behavioral expression of underlying genotypes) with treatment relevance: dysgraphia (impaired legible automatic letter writing, orthographic…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Written Language, Oral Language, Learning Disabilities
Clinic, School, and Parents: Working Together.
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Gottesman, Ruth L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1980
The collaborative efforts of clinic and school district personnel to provide comprehensive evaluations in children with severe learning disabilities are described. Reasons for mixed success of the program are discussed. (CL)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
A Cooperative Assessment Strategy for Evaluating School-Aged Children with Language Impairments.
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Plenge, Teresa F.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
The article proposes a cooperative assessment strategy with language impaired children to assist the interdisciplinary psychoeducational evaluation and planning team to function as a unit by (1) agreeing on a theoretical framework, (2) cooperating in planning the assessment, (3) raising questions for the assessment, and (4) making cooperative…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
An In-Service Workshop Model for Regular Class Teachers Concerning Mainstreaming of the Learning Disabled Child.
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Carberry, Hugh; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1981
Major objectives of the teacher workshop are to increase the empathy and knowledge of the regular teacher concerning the characteristics and problems of the LD student, and to work out communication problems and increase the dialogue between the resource learning center teachers and the regular classroom teachers. (SBH)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach