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Danielle C. Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Learning disabilities (LD) are a set of complex disorders, also known as "hidden" disabilities, which require comprehensive and tailored supports to meet the specific needs of individuals. As such, because of such complexities and with college attendance on the rise in recent years, it is necessary to understand the needs of students…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Learning Disabilities, Student Personnel Services, Students with Disabilities
Park, Soeun; Foley-Nicpon, Megan; Choate, Alyssa; Bolenbaugh, Mallory – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2018
Parents of high-ability students with disabilities (i.e., twice-exceptional) play a crucial role in their children's home and educational environments. In addition, parents' sociocultural contexts, including race and ethnicity, can influence their parenting practice. We conducted interviews with 10 Asian American parents from diverse ethnic…
Descriptors: Gifted, Asian American Students, Gifted Disabled, Parent Attitudes
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Jorgensen, Mary; Budd, Jillian; Fichten, Catherine S.; Nguyen, Mai N.; Havel, Alice – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This study's goal was to compare aspects related to academic persistence of two groups of college students with non-visible disabilities: 110 Canadian two and four-year college students--55 with mental health related disabilities and 55 with Specific Learning Disorder (LD). Results show that students with mental health related disabilities were…
Descriptors: College Students, Learning Disabilities, Academic Persistence, Mental Health
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Fichten, Catherine Susan; Heiman, Tali; Havel, Alice; Jorgensen, Mary; Budd, Jillian; King, Laura – Exceptionality Education International, 2016
We have examined the sustainability of providing services for students with disabilities in higher education in Canada and Israel. The two countries differ in their approaches: Israel subscribes to the accommodations model of service delivery; Canada, to the universal design approach. Case examples of services to students with disabilities in…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Access to Education, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Kim, Mi Song; Hung, Wei Loong David; Jamaludin, Azilawati Bte; Lim, Seo Hong – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
Learning happens not only in schools, but also in every context that affords new experiences and opportunities for metacognition. We aim to maximize the different activity-milieux in which learners are engaged in developing their life-long learning dispositions to learn within and across contexts. This paper is a follow up of an earlier published…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Metacognition, Learning Activities, Lifelong Learning
Illinois Community College Board, 2014
The development of this policy guide was prompted by a variety of needs and issues in the field of adult education as related to adult students who have special learning needs. After many years of workshops and policy committee meetings, the resulting document reflects the growth in awareness for special needs students by both practitioners and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities
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Burghardt, John; Haimson, Joshua; Lipscomb, Stephen; Liu, Albert Y.; Potter, Frank; Waits, Tiffany; Wang, Sheng – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
The National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 (NLTS 2012) is the third in the series of NLTS studies sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to examine youth with disabilities receiving services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a long-standing federal law last updated in 2004. Under IDEA, youth with…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Disabilities, Transitional Programs, Special Education
Warner, Michael M.; And Others – 1980
The paper, part of a research series on learning disabled (LD) adolescents, reports findings of a study on the variables which added significantly to group discrimination after ability and achievement had been controlled. Ss were 56 LD and 51 low achieving (LA) students in grades 7 through 12, their parents, and their regular classroom teachers.…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Classification
Lenz, B. Keith; And Others – 1980
The study investigated the similarities between 55 delinquent, 46 low achieving (LA), 45 learning disabled (LD), and 30 normal achieving (NA) adolescents from grades 7 through 12 and their parents. Each adolescent and parent was given a questionnaire covering a wide variety of descriptive variables. In addition, data or grade point average,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attendance, Delinquency
Deshler, Donald D.; And Others – 1980
A statewide random sampling of seven groups of professional educators (N=90) and 30 parents of learning disabled (LD) students were compared for their degree of agreement on the Modified Component Disability Instrument. Professionals included teachers of LD adolescents, remedial reading teachers, school psychologists, speech clinicians, school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Check Lists, Evaluation Criteria
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Dept. of Home Economics Education. – 1985
The fourth part of a parenthood education curriculum series, the Parent Education Workbook consists of a teachers guide (and 12 student lesson units not replicated in the guide) divided into two parts, the first part focusing on relationships and the second on child care. The units are intended for use by mainstreamed mentally disabled (MD) and…
Descriptors: Family Life Education, High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming
Alley, Gordon R.; And Others – 1980
The reliability and validity of the Modified Component Disability Checklist were examined with five secondary learning disabled (LD) teachers, 21 low achieving students, and 21 LD students in grades 7, 8, and 9. During Phase I, teachers matched the component disability to the target behavior; and in Phase II teachers were told to judge each target…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Check Lists, Handicap Identification
Kavale, Kenneth A. – 1989
This study surveyed the beliefs and perceptions of 547 Iowa teachers of students with learning disabilities (LD). Results indicated that these teachers possessed a sound knowledge base for their work which they are willing to modify to enhance their understanding of LD and their efforts to improve the performance of LD students. The survey…
Descriptors: Definitions, Delivery Systems, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Dix, Jennifer; Schafer, Susan – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
Basic information for regular classroom teachers with students who are both gifted and learning disabled covers definition of this population; incidence; characteristics; and six teaching strategies, such as flexibility in how student demonstrates mastery of material, adapting for reading differences, and using attention-directing techniques. A…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Definitions, Disability Identification, Gifted Disabled
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Berent, Gerald P.; Samar, Vincent J.; Parasnis, Ila – American Annals of the Deaf, 2000
Twenty-eight experienced English language professionals were surveyed regarding the degree of difficulty students with deafness with and without learning disabilities might have in dealing with 30 specific English language phenomena. Spelling knowledge and a variety of English discourse, lexical, syntactic, and morphological phenomena emerged as…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Deafness, English, Learning Disabilities
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