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Learning Disabilities and Achieving High-Quality Education Standards
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Gartland, Debi; Strosnider, Roberta – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2017
This is an official document of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD), of which Council for Learning Disabilities is a long-standing, active member. With this position paper, NJCLD advocates for the implementation of high-quality education standards (HQES) for students with learning disabilities (LD) and outlines the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Academic Standards, Educational Quality, Academic Achievement
Systematically Applying UDL to Effective Practices for Students with Learning Disabilities
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Cook, Sara Cothren; Rao, Kavita – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2018
Based on the premise that instruction should be designed from the outset to reduce barriers, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines provide a set of flexible options and scaffolds to ensure access for all learners. Using the UDL framework, teachers and researchers can systematically adapt effective practices that have been established by…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Best Practices, Access to Education, Guidelines
Applying LD Documentation Guidelines at the Postsecondary Level: Decision Making with Sparse or Missing Data
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Banerjee, Manju; Madaus, Joseph W.; Gelbar, Nicholas – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2015
A key issue in fostering transition to postsecondary education for students with disabilities is documentation verifying the nature of the disability and supporting the need for services and reasonable accommodations. Documentation guidelines assist postsecondary disability service providers in making decisions about eligibility and reasonable…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Documentation, Postsecondary Education, Decision Making
Proposed Guidelines and Criteria for Describing Samples of Persons with Learning Disabilities.
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Morris, Robin; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1994
This article presents a rationale for improving descriptions of samples of persons with learning disabilities in research reports. Guidelines resulting from a working conference of journal editors in the field of learning disabilities are presented. The guidelines aim to allow for study-to-study comparisons and actual replications. (JDD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Learning Disabilities, Participant Characteristics
Impact on Psychologists of State Guidelines for Evaluating Underachievement.
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Ross, Roslyn P. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1995
Information from 290 school psychologists was compared to Frankenberger and Fronzaglio's 1991 data on state education department recommendations on evaluating discrepancies between ability and achievement. A trend toward more appropriate methods of quantifying discrepancies between ability and achievement was noted, but considerable questionable…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods