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Peer reviewedMorris, Robin D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Briefly reviews conceptual and operational limitations of classic approaches to classifying learning disabled children. Examines new classification research with learning disabled populations which is investigating alternative classification schemes through systematic and empirical hypothesis-testing paradigms, and sparking renewed interest in…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkFrancis,David J; Fletcher,Jack M.; Stuebing,Karla K.; Lyon,G. Reid; Shaywitz,Bennett A; Shaywitz,Sally E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2005
Simulated data were used to demonstrate that groups formed by imposing cut-points based on either discrepancy or low-achievement definitions of learning disabilities (LD) are unstable over time. Similar problems were demonstrated in longitudinal data from the Connecticut Longitudinal Study, where 39% of the children designated as having LD in…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Low Achievement, Grade 5, Grade 3
