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Mitchell Louis Yell; M. Renee Bradley – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
In 2025, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) will have been the primary law driving the field of special education for 50 years. A contentious area of disagreement has been the relationship between two primary mandates of the law: the obligation of schools to provide a free, appropriate public education (FAPE) to eligible…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation
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Allison F. Gilmour; Justin Harper; Blair Lloyd; Alyssa Van Camp – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Response to intervention (RTI) is a method for providing academic support to students and for identifying specific learning disabilities (SLDs). Using interrupted time series and hazard models, we examined if statewide RTI adoption in the U.S. state of Tennessee was associated with changes in rates of SLD and first-time SLD identification in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Intervention
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Berkeley, Sheri; Scanlon, David; Bailey, Tessie R.; Sutton, Jason C.; Sacco, Donna M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
Response to intervention (RTI) has evolved from its first decade of implementation. Because states guide and regulate policy and practice at the state and local education agency levels, it is important to understand their critical role in RTI implementation. A systematic review of all 50 state education agency websites was conducted to provide an…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Positive Behavior Supports, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities
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Weis, Robert; Dean, Emily L.; Osborne, Karen J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
Clinicians uniformly recommend accommodations for college students with learning disabilities; however, we know very little about which accommodations they select and the validity of their recommendations. We examined the assessment documentation of a large sample of community college students receiving academic accommodations for learning…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Learning Disabilities, Postsecondary Education, Two Year Colleges
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Ryan, Janette – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
Although more students with learning disabilities (LD) are enrolling in Australian universities, their learning needs are not well understood. This article reports on the experiences of students with LD who are encouraged to enter the academy by Australian university policies and government legislation but, once there, find that the promise of…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Dudley-Marling, Curt; Dippo, Don – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1995
This article uses discourse theory in arguing that learning disabilities, by explaining several contradictions and anomalies of schooling, function to sustain dominant assumptions of schooling and society and to maintain inequitable distribution of social goods. Educators are urged to actively confront the inequities of schooling and society.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy