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The Willingness and Ability of Postsecondary Faculty to Provide Academic Accommodations to Students with Learning Disabilities
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McCarron, Elizabeth C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Faculty are responsible for providing the academic accommodations needed and used by students with learning disabilities (SWLD). Since learning disabilities (LD) are hidden, faculty may question the need for, efficacy of, and fairness of accommodations. Yet academically accommodating SWLD is important to academic success and persistence. This…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Learning Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes
Integrating Neuropsychology and School Psychology: Potential and Pitfalls
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Jantz, Paul B.; Plotts, Cynthia A. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2014
The neurological basis of learning disabilities (LD), and other handicapping conditions commonly found in school-age children, makes the integration of neuropsychology and school psychology plausible. However, there has been longstanding debate over the required level of education, training, supervision, and credentialing needed for the practice…
Descriptors: Neuropsychology, School Psychology, Integrated Activities, Performance Factors
Supporting School-Based Response to Intervention: A Practitioner's Model
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Hoover, John J.; Love, Emily – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2011
Several key components are essential to successfully implementing an RTI model in schools. RTI is an evolving practice; a school-based collaborative consultation RTI model offers a process that enables a school to apply RTI principles to its unique setting and concerns. Three schools in the Western United States implemented this RTI model with…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Models, Response to Intervention, Program Implementation
Implementing Research Practices
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Cannon, Calvin – High School Journal, 2006
Special education research has undergone one of the most significant developments in the history of education during the past two decades (Gersten, Vaughn, Deshler, & Schiller, 1997). These developments can be related to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 and the resulting knowledge about teaching individuals with…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Practices, Curriculum Based Assessment, General Education
Making Sense of Disability: Low-Income, Puerto Rican Parents' Theories of the Problem.
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Harry, Beth – Exceptional Children, 1992
An ethnographic study of 12 low-income Puerto Rican parents of children with learning disabilities or mild mental retardation found that different cultural meanings of disability and normalcy led parents to reject the notion of disability and focus on the impact of family identity, language confusion, and detrimental educational practices on…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Educational Practices
Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2002.
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Obiakor, Festus E., Ed.; Utley, Cheryl A., Ed. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2002
This issue of "Multiple Voices" contains the following articles: (1) "A Self-Study of Diversity: Preservice Teachers' Beliefs Revealed through Classroom Practices" (Donna M. Sobel and others), which presents the results of seven preservice teachers' self-study that reveals ways in which the teachers' beliefs regarding diversity issues were…
Descriptors: American Indians, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Bilingual Education, Blacks