Adults with learning disabilities (LD) attending adult basic education, GED programs, or community colleges are among the lowest performers on measures of literacy. For example, on multiple measures of reading comprehension, adults with LD had a mean reading score at the third grade level, whereas adults without LD read at the fifth grade level.…

In this article, the authors consider the power and limitations of responsiveness-to-intervention (RTI) for reducing the need for ongoing and intensive services for the segment of the school population traditionally identified as having a learning disability in mathematics. To assess the robustness of RTI, the authors describe four studies with…

The primary purpose of the present study is to evaluate the emotional experience of students with (n = 52) and without attention problems (n = 272) during an achievement task. A secondary purpose of the present study is to compare students' emotional response to various stimuli, when motivated by various achievement goals. Participants were…

The study investigated the effects of three stages of instructional manipulation on first- and second-grade students who were functioning at a frustration level. (Author/SBH)

Results showed that, even with efficient instructional procedures, overloading, higher failure rate, and percentage of transposition spelling errors and greater variance in performance may occur when the number of words presented each day exceeds three. (Author)

The effects of competing auditory stimuli on the performance of 11 possibly learning disabled children and 11 normal children were compared. (Author)

It is suggested that procedures for the assessment of learning disabilities incorporate measures of extrinsic motivation in order to differentiate students with learning disabilities from those who perform poorly because of low intrinsic motivation. (Author)

The paper reviews research which presents evidence that learning disabled (LD) children, like other groups that show performance deficiencies, do not spontaneously employ appropriate goal directed task strategies in many situations. (Author/PHR)

Three student experimenters individually trained and tested eight fourth grade children who had been randomly selected and labeled either learning disabled or normal. (Author/CL)

The poor achievement of secondary students with learning disabilities in mathematics is often affected by prior low achievement, low expectations for success, and inadequate instruction. Good instruction involves careful selection of examples; explicit instructional design; a parsimonious use of time and resources; and techniques such as direct…