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Maki, Kathrin E.; Burns, Matthew K.; Sullivan, Amanda L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2018
Many school psychologists spend a large portion of their time conducting evaluations for special education, but school psychologists' confidence in learning disability (learning disability[ies] [LD]) identification has not been examined experimentally. This study examined differences in 376 school psychologists' confidence in their identification…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Decision Making
Zirkel, Perry A. – Communique, 2014
As the second iteration of the reexamination of recent court decisions concerning appropriate school psychology practice from both professional and legal perspectives, this article considers the following pair of cases with regard to the issue of eligibility under the classification of specific learning disabilities (SLD) under the Individuals…
Descriptors: School Psychology, School Psychologists, Eligibility, Learning Disabilities
Fowler, Joyce; Patton, James E.; Yarbrough, Donald B. – 1998
This paper discusses the outcomes of a survey of 39 special education practitioners (including 24 school psychologists) and 280 elementary classroom teachers on the identification of students with reading disabilities. Practitioners were asked to rate five empirically valid and five clinical-traditional non-valid student traits for their…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Dyslexia, Elementary Education