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Kaiser, Ann P.; Roberts, Megan Y. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2011
Learning to communicate using speech and language is a primary developmental task for young children. Delays in the acquisition of language are one of the earliest indicators of developmental deficits that may affect academic and social outcomes for individuals across the life span. In the period since the passage of PL 99-457, significant…
Descriptors: Intervention, Oral Language, Developmental Tasks, Language Acquisition
MacMillan, Donald L.; Siperstein, Gary N. – 2001
This paper identifies trends in the population of students with learning disabilities (LD) in the public schools and explores reasons for these trends. It notes that there has been a 198 percent increase in the number of children served as LD between 1976-77 and 1992-93 due to a lack of consensus on the definition of LD and school-level processes…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Definitions, Disability Identification, Educational Policy