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Commentary: The Need for More Expansive Frameworks--A Practical Perspective
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Rueda, Robert – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2011
The intent of this volume was to address the following questions: What is considered acceptable knowledge about learning disabilities? Who decides? Where does knowledge come from? Who uses it and for what purposes? Who benefits? In their article, Artiles et al. (this issue) focus explicitly on the issue of culture and how it has served to impact…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Learning Disabilities, Cultural Influences, Models
A Systems Framework for Assessing Attitudes toward the Learning Disabled.
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Podemski, Richard S.; Marsh, George E., II – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1981
The article describes a systems framework for assessing attitudes toward learning disabled students. Generalizations concerning the framework are drawn to assist researchers, school practitioners, and project directors in formulating research questions and analyzing data regarding the nature and effects of attitudes toward the learning disabled.…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Models, Systems Approach
Career Education for the Learning Disabled--Where Are We Now?
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Mori, Allen A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1980
The author traces some of the current trends in career education for the learning disabled and presents a model for providing career education to secondary learning disabled students. (SBH)
Descriptors: Career Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Disabilities, Models
Facilitating Successful Transition: Using the TRAC Model to Assess and Develop Academic Skills Needed for Vocational Competence.
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Minskoff, Esther H.; DeMoss, Sherry – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1993
The TRAC (Trade-Related Academic Competencies) model is designed for use by special education teachers in conjunction with vocational educators to provide a positive first experience for students with learning disabilities in transition from school to employment. The model assesses and develops academic skills in 26 vocational education program…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Awareness, Education Work Relationship, Junior High Schools
Narrative Knowing: Basis for a Partnership on Language Diversity.
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Reid, D. Kim – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
Seven elementary school personnel and eight university personnel participated in a school-university partnership based on narrative knowing. Using a teacher-as-researcher model to focus on the instruction of students labeled as language and learning disabled, the educators engaged in group-building activities and research collaboration. Case…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Research, College School Cooperation