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Mercedes Baggett; Lindsay L. Diamond; Abbie Olszewski – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2024
Even though the most prevalent category of disability served in the U.S. school system is specific learning disabilities (SLD), practitioners are often unfamiliar with the indicators associated with a specific LD such as dysgraphia and dyslexia. Misconceptions or an absence of understanding of the behavioral indicators related to dysgraphia and…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Children, Writing (Composition)
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Clement-Lam, Silvia Siu-Yin; Lau, Airey Nga-Lui; Kearns, Devin M. – Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities, 2021
Neuroimaging research has substantially enhanced our understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms of typical and atypical learning in children. These developments can advance the design of novel approaches to diagnosis and intervention for learning disabilities. Despite the promise of educational neuroscience, there are still walls between…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Special Education, Educational Research, Learning Disabilities
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Deniz, Fatmana Kara – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
Students with learning disabilities (LD) often leave school without the necessary cognitive autonomy skills to independently navigate adulthood and meet the life challenges of the 21st century. Acquiring and maintaining cognitive autonomy skills (i.e., decision-making, voicing an opinion, evaluating the consequences of decisions, self-assessing…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills
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Hanna David; Eva Gyarmathy – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2023
This book addresses a wide range of issues situated in the core of theoreticians' and clinicians' work in the field of giftedness. It gathers practical issues, relevant for the lives of many gifted children, adolescents and adults, from a neuropsychological point of view. By studying the basic questions in gifted education through a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Adolescents, Neuropsychology
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Beaujean, A. Alexander; Benson, Nicholas F. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2019
Charles Spearman and L. L. Thurstone were pioneers in the field of intelligence. They not only developed methods to assess and understand intelligence, but also developed theories about its structure and function. Methodologically, their approaches were not that distinct, but their theories of intelligence were philosophically very different --…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Intelligence Tests, Scores, Theories
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Thapliyal, Monika; Ahuja, Neelu Jyothi; Shankar, Achyut; Cheng, Xiaochun; Kumar, Manoj – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2022
This paper presents the ontological design and implementation of the differentiated learning environment in the domain model of an intelligent tutoring system for children with specific learning disabilities. It addresses the learners need for differentiated instruction in a preferential learning environment. The proposed model helps to identify…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
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McMaster, Kristen L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
In this commentary, I highlight key insights from research on learning disabilities (LD) reported in this special issue. Authors of each article describe innovative work that is expanding frontiers of LD knowledge, by focusing on vulnerable and understudied populations, using multiple methodologies and data sources, and building and refining…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Educational Theories, Educational Research, Disproportionate Representation
Eissa, Mourad Ali – Online Submission, 2018
This article examines issues related to identification of children with specific learning disorders (SLDs). The focus is on the Diagnostic Criteria in DSM-5 ["Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition"]. Diagnostic features, associated features supporting diagnosis, and prevalence are discussed.
Descriptors: Children, Disability Identification, Clinical Diagnosis, Incidence
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Mutumburanzou, Patricia – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
Individuals with severe learning disabilities have little or no speech and find it very difficult to communicate and learn new skills. Most of them were excluded from the education process due to the presumed inability to learn. However, it has been observed over time that individuals with severe learning disabilities (SLD) of all ages and types…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Skills, Children, Learning Disabilities
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Etkin, Jordana – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2018
Self-regulation is a process referring to the knowledge and awareness of one's own ability to learn. Recent studies focus on self-regulation in the classroom environment, because it is recognized as an important component of student academic achievement. Exploring factors such as the five-domain model, learning disabilities, mindfulness, and the…
Descriptors: Self Management, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition, Classroom Environment
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Algozzine, Bob; Schmid, Rex; Conners, Bob – Behavioral Disorders, 2017
Most definitions of emotionally disturbed youngsters suggest that disturbances in the child's behavior patterns cause academic and social problems which affect the child and his peers. While the process of identification may be facilitated by operational criteria within a definition, these factors are noticeably absent from definitions of…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Child Behavior, Social Problems
Hurst, KeShawn J. – Online Submission, 2018
This paper will examine the cognitive development. Specifically, it will include and inform others about the cognitive development of children with speech and language disabilities. In addition, it will be discussing the major factors of speech and language impairment and assistive technologies that can affect the students' academic performance
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Children, Speech Impairments, Language Impairments
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Harrison, Gina L.; McManus, Kelly L. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2017
The incidence of writing disorder is as common as reading disorder, but it is frequently under-identified and rarely targeted for intervention. Increasing clinical understanding on various subtypes of writing disorder through assessment guided by data-driven decision making may alleviate this disparity for students with writing disorders. The…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Intervention, Evaluation Methods, Planning
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Cavioni, Valeria; Grazzani, Ilaria; Ornaghi, Veronica – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2017
This paper discusses the key role of social and emotional learning programmes for children with Learning Disability (LD). The first part of the paper discusses the difficulties students with learning disability may encounter in their education, such as issues related to peer group acceptance, friendship and social isolation, low self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Children, Learning Disabilities, Inclusion, Socialization
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Mostert, Mark P. – Advances in Special Education, 2013
Social skills training (SST) is increasingly used as an adjunct to academic interventions for children and youth with learning disabilities (LD). A brief context and an overview of SST are provided and the issue related to the establishment of SST efficacy via extant meta-analyses is described. Generally, outcomes for SST efficacy are mixed, at…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Training, Learning Disabilities, Meta Analysis
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