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Wang, Li-Chih; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2022
This study investigated the learning strategies that university students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) report using in the Chinese language context. Participants were 105 first-year undergraduate students with SLD and 134 typically developing peers. Three questionnaires about reported reading/writing difficulties, metacognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Losinski, Mickey; Ennis, Robin Parks; Shaw, Ashley; Gage, Nicholas A. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2021
Students with mathematics difficulties often struggle with conceptual and procedural understanding of fractions. Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) is an evidence-based framework for teaching a variety of academic skills, including mathematics. The purpose of this study was to extend preliminary work using "SRSD Fractions" to…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Fractions, Mathematics Instruction
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Hock, Michael F.; Bulgren, Janis A.; Brasseur-Hock, Irma F. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2017
In this article, we discuss research supporting the Strategic Instruction Model's™ (SIM) effort to address higher order reasoning and thinking skills in two lines of programmatic research. We review the extant body of evidence supporting the two lines of the SIM library, the Content Enhancement Routines and a comprehensive reading program, and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, High School Students, Learning Disabilities, Intervention
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Freeman-Green, Shaqwana M.; O'Brien, Chris; Wood, Charles L.; Hitt, Sara Beth – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2015
This study examined the effects of explicit instruction in the SOLVE Strategy on the mathematical problem solving skills of six Grade 8 students with specific learning disabilities. The SOLVE Strategy is an explicit instruction, mnemonic-based learning strategy designed to help students in solving mathematical word problems. Using a multiple probe…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Secondary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Skills
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Krawec, Jennifer; Montague, Marjorie – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2014
The purpose of this article is to offer teacher training and professional development recommendations in mathematics based on the findings of a federally funded 3-year intervention study that improved the problem solving of middle school students with a focus on students with learning disabilities. Over the 3-year project, 29 seventh and eighth…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Middle School Students, Student Improvement
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Maccini, Paula; Mulcahy, Candace A.; Wilson, Michael G. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2007
This article extends a previous review of the literature (Maccini & Hughes, 1997) on mathematics interventions for secondary school students with learning disabilities (LD). A systematic review of the literature from 1995 to 2006 yielded 23 articles that met the criteria for inclusion. It was determined that a number of practices demonstrated…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction
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Montague, Marjorie – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2007
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of research-based interventions that incorporate self-regulation strategies to improve mathematics performance of students with learning disabilities (LD). Self-regulation is a metacognitive function essential to academic success. Students with LD are notoriously poor at self-regulation and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Self Management, Intervention
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Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Burish, Pamela – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2000
This article describes the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) program for developing reading skills in grades 2-6. It notes a 3rd grade teacher's perspective and reports on research and development efforts supporting use of PALS reading with students with learning disabilities. Noted is the recent extension of PALS reading downward into…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
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Berry, Ruth A. W. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2006
The analysis identified discursive strategies used by general education teachers in inclusion classrooms to orchestrate and scaffold the verbal participation of all students, including students with learning disabilities (LD). The context was writing instruction. A whole-class lesson involving teacher student collaboration to write a text was…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Inclusive Schools, Learning Strategies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)