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Radhika Misquitta; Apoorva Panshikar; Bindiya Hassaram – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2024
This paper critically examines the centrally administered pre-service teacher preparation program for learning disabilities in India. With no equivalent Indian competency standards, this paper analyses components of the teacher preparation curriculum in the light of 22 high leverage practices (HLPs) outlined by the Council for Exceptional Children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Preservice Teachers
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Nicola Grove; Simon Richards; Simon Rice; Claudia Magwood; Bryan Collis; Steffen Martick; Saskia Schuppener; Gertraud Kremsner; Elizabeth Tilley; Jan Walmsley – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Inclusive research has sidelined discussion of theoretical issues with researchers with intellectual/learning disabilities. This is a situation which the Big Ideas initiative sought to change. Between 2021 and 2023, the Open University, Leipzig University and the University of Koblenz organised nine workshops to explore influential…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Workshops, Inclusion, Learning Disabilities
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Sadusky, Andrea; Freeman, Nerelie C.; Jacobs, Kate E.; Reupert, Andrea E. – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2018
What Australian psychologists currently learn about specific learning disorders (SLDs) through postgraduate-level training is not clear. Accordingly, the current Australia-wide study analysed 800 postgraduate psychology unit handbook entries to identify which courses teach about SLD and what they teach in this area. Only 2.38% of the identified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Psychology, Learning Disabilities
Mark Murphy; Angela Johnson – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
This study examines the effects of English Learner (EL) status on subsequent Special Education (SPED) placement. Through a research-practice partnership, we link student demographic data and initial English proficiency assessment data across seven cohorts of test takers and observe EL and SPED programmatic participation for these students over…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Identification, English Learners, Special Education
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Lopes-Murphy, Solange A.; Murphy, Christopher G. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2020
Fundamental to the hypothesis-driven approach to assessing the special-education (SPED) needs of English learners (ELs) is the awareness that behaviors often exhibited by ELs may mirror indicators of learning disabilities (e.g., difficulty comprehending text, difficulty following directions, lack of appropriate classroom behavior, lack of…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
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Hott, Brittany; Berkeley, Sheri; Fairfield, Ambre; Shora, Nelly – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2017
Decreasing the well-documented research-to-practice gap in special education is thought to partially depend on practitioner access to quality evidence-based interventions. Practitioner journals are one such resource for obtaining this information. The current study is a systematic review of articles published over the last 25 years (1990-2014) in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Special Education, Learning Disabilities, Mild Disabilities
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Brenda L. Barrio; Kira J. Carbonneau; Marcus Poppen; Darcy Miller; Michael Dunn; Yun-Ju Hsiao – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2019
Implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) has been developed with the goal of increasing the efficiency and efficacy of the identification process for students at risk of/with learning disabilities. While this goal is well-intentioned, the implementation of RTI has faced challenges at the district level. Understanding the current…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Theory Practice Relationship, At Risk Students, Learning Disabilities
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Goldstein, Howard; Olszewski, Arnold – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: This article describes the process of developing and implementing a supplemental early literacy curriculum designed for preschoolers demonstrating delays in literacy development. Method: Intervention research and implementation research have traditionally been viewed as sequential processes. This article illustrates a process of…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Emergent Literacy
Goldstein, Howard; Olszewski, Arnold – Grantee Submission, 2015
Purpose: This article describes the process of developing and implementing a supplemental early literacy curriculum designed for preschoolers demonstrating delays in literacy development. Method: Intervention research and implementation research have traditionally been viewed as sequential processes. This article illustrates a process of…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Emergent Literacy
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Bineham, Susan C.; Shelby, Liz; Pazey, Barbara L.; Yates, James R. – Journal of School Leadership, 2014
Federal legislation allows local education agencies to use a student's response to scientific research-based interventions as a method of identifying specific learning disabilities. As a result, educational leadership is challenged to implement response to intervention (RTI). Despite increased literature addressing RTI, no consensus on…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Special Education, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Program Implementation
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Iannacci, Luigi; Graham, Bente – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2010
This study explores teacher candidates' understandings of children with special needs and learning disabilities; the effect of a special education course supporting a tutoring practicum; and how curricula can critically deconstruct and disrupt dominant, inequitable notions and practices. Data were collected through initial and end-of-course…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Early Childhood Education, Learning Disabilities, Focus Groups
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Chard, David J.; Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R.; Baker, Scott K.; Doabler, Christian; Apichatabutra, Chanisa – Exceptional Children, 2009
For students with or at risk for learning disabilities, developing fluency with reading connected texts remains a formidable challenge. In response, teachers often use repeated reading practices designed to provide students with multiple exposures to the same words. This study examined research focused on determining the efficacy of repeated…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Intervention
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Kennedy, Michael J.; Ely, Emily; Thomas, Cathy Newman; Pullen, Paige C.; Newton, Jennifer R.; Ashworth, Kristen; Cole, Mira T.; Lovelace, Shelly P. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2012
Content Acquisition Podcasts (CAPs), created using Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, are a form of instructional technology that can deliver critical course content and be used by teacher educators to conserve limited face-to-face instructional time. In this study, the authors investigate whether the sequence of instruction for CAP…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Multimedia Materials, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education
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Bryant, Brian R.; Bryant, Diane Pedrotty; Kethley, Caroline; Kim, Sun A.; Pool, Cathy; Seo, You-Jin – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2008
High-quality core instruction in kindergarten and first and second grade is critical to prevent mathematics difficulties. Evidence-based critical features of instruction should be part of core instruction and be included in mathematics textbooks. This study examined lessons from kindergarten and first- and second-grade basal mathematics textbooks…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Fundamental Concepts
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Canary, Heather E. – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2008
This project uses a narrative view of identity to interrogate how individuals construct notions of ability and disability within their families. Participants include children with disabilities from diverse ethnic backgrounds, their parents, siblings, and extended family members. Interactions within four families are explored as well as…
Descriptors: Siblings, Family (Sociological Unit), Disabilities, Interviews
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