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Peer reviewedSwanson, H. Lee – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1988
Patterns of memory dysfunction were determined in 50 middle school learning disabled readers (LD) through a hierarchical cluster analysis. Results were consistent with memory capacity theories of LD and provided external validation for classification of LD readers on psychometric measures according to patterns of memory performance. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Classification, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Memory
Download full textKeogh, Barbara K. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2005
This article discusses issues of classification and identification, while evaluating some of the continuing controversies about learning disabilities (LD) related to those topics. The author suggests that many problems have to do with confusion between the two. Despite years of effort and an extraordinary increase in the number of individuals…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Individual Characteristics, Classification, Learning Disabilities
Rueda, Robert – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2005
A recent overview of the field of learning disabilities (Torgesen, 2004) laid out several issues that will likely consume the field for the foreseeable future, including problems of definition and etiology, differentiation of learning disabilities from other disabilities, and issues in identification and service delivery. It has been approximately…
Descriptors: Etiology, Learning Disabilities, Classification, Identification
Peer reviewedHofmeister, Alan M.; Lubke, Margaret M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1986
Expert systems are briefly reviewed and applications in special education diagnosis and classification are described. Future applications are noted to include text interpretation and pupil performance monitoring. (CL)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Classification, Computers, Educational Diagnosis
Bradley, Renee; Danielson, Louis – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2004
This article commences with an excerpt from a memo entitled "Problems in Assessment of LD Children," recently found when the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) relocated their offices. The letter was written by then junior staffer Lou Danielson to a university professor. Although Danielson's letter was written in 1977, 27…
Descriptors: Special Education, Public Education, Learning Disabilities, Student Evaluation
Galaburda, Albert M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2005
Dyslexia may represent the first example of a LD whereby a possible pathway may link the observed behavior to an underlying neurological substrate that has a neurodevelopmental history beginning with an abnormal gene. Similar efforts are being made to link other cognitive disorders of development to a molecular pathway involved in brain…
Descriptors: Genetics, Neurology, Learning Disabilities, Brain
Reschly, Daniel J.; Hosp, John L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2004
Specific learning disabilities (SLD) conceptual definitions and classification criteria were examined through a survey of state education agency (SEA) SLD contact persons in an effort to update information last published in 1996. Most prior trends continued over the last decade. Results showed that SEA SLD classification criteria continue to be…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Definitions, Evaluation Criteria, Special Education
