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Jiri Mekyska; Katarina Safarova; Tomas Urbanek; Jirina Bednarova; Vojtech Zvoncak; Jana Marie Havigerova; Lukas Cunek; Zoltan Galaz; Jan Mucha; Christine Klauszova; Marcos Faundez-Zanuy; Miguel A. Ferrer; Moises Diaz – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2024
Graphomotor and handwriting disabilities (GD and HD, respectively) could significantly reduce children's quality of life. Effective remediation depends on proper diagnosis; however, current approaches to diagnosis and assessment of GD and HD have several limitations and knowledge gaps, e.g. they are subjective, they do not facilitate…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Handwriting, Students with Disabilities, Rating Scales
Tracy Laverick; Richard Baron – British Journal of Special Education, 2024
The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan has been published for England and includes a recommendation for SEND Assessment and Review Teams guidance. These teams co-ordinate and monitor the statutory Education, Health and Care Plans detailing the needs and provision for children with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Special Education
Andresen, Anette; Monsrud, May-Britt – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The fact that researchers have not been able to reach consensus about what constitutes dyslexia, may lead to inconsistency in the operational definitions of the measures used to assess dyslexia, which in turn jeopardizes the validity of these assessments. As this has potential negative consequences for children in need of remedial reading…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Clinical Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods, Diagnostic Tests
Joner, Maya Dybvig; Reikerås, Elin; Alvestad, Marit – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
We investigated how children with language difficulties are identified, and which adapted provision is given in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) before referrals are made to The Educational Psychological Service (EPS), and the EPS assessment of such difficulties. A qualitative content analysis of 20 documents pertaining to four…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Foreign Countries, Preschool Education
Karal, Muhammed A.; Unluol Unal, Neslihan – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2022
Background: Identifying the students with intellectual disabilities and deciding the required services would not be sufficient without parental involvement. The purpose of this study was to understand the perspectives of the parents of students with intellectual disabilities about the Guidance and Research Centres (GRCs) and reveal the parents'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Guenot, Brittany; Jaber, Lindsey S. – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2022
Over the past several decades, teachers have been increasingly challenged with a greater diversity of learning profiles within their classrooms. Historically, within Ontario, Canada, students who did not learn effectively through traditional methods were labelled and separated into alternate learning environments. Legislation and policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, French Canadians, French
Virinkoski, Riitta; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Holopainen, Leena; Eklund, Kenneth; Aro, Mikko – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2018
The aim of the study was to investigate what kinds of assessment practices classroom teachers and special educational needs (SEN) teachers use in assessing first grade students' pre-reading skills (letter knowledge and phonological skills). Further, we investigated to what extent teachers were able to identify difficulties in pre-reading skills of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, At Risk Students, Disability Identification, Reading Skills
Al-Hilawani, Yasser A. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Proposed guidelines have been published recently (Al-Hilawani, 2016) to help identify and determine for the first time the existence of learning disabilities among students in the Middle East Arab (M.E.A.) countries. These guidelines have been drawn from recent and up-to-date information available on learning disabilities. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Lindsay, Geoff; Dockrell, Julie; Desforges, Martin; Law, James; Peacey, Nick – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background: The UK government set up a review of provision for children and young people with the full range of speech, language and communication needs led by a Member of Parliament, John Bercow. A research study was commissioned to provide empirical evidence to inform the Bercow Review. Aims: To examine the efficiency and effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Communication Problems, Interviews, Special Needs Students
Kypriotaki, Maria; Manolitsis, George – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2010
The early detection of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by teachers can contribute to the prevention of secondary disorders in a child and this can have serious implications for the child's overall development. The aims of the present study were to examine: (1) the validity of the original assessment of the teachers in…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Disability Identification, Rating Scales, Student Evaluation

Bartolo, Paul A.; Dockrell, Julie; Lunt, Ingrid – Journal of School Psychology, 2001
Studies the group decision-making process of the evaluation of preschool children with complex disabilities. Sequential application of processes was found to be influenced by the occurrence of a series of three cycles of decision making within each assessment and the decomposition of the assessment task into distinct subproblems. (Contains 67…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Disability Identification, Early Identification, Foreign Countries

Steerneman, Pim; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1997
A study of 20 children (ages 3-6) with autism and 20 children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) examined the validity of a Dutch version of the revised Psychoeducational Profile (PEP-R). No differences were found on the PEP-R developmental subscales, but on the pathology subscales children with autism showed more severe behavior than…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Disability Identification, Foreign Countries

Lawrence, Brenda; Carter, Jenny – British Journal of Special Education, 1999
This study evaluated the use of the Dyslexia Screening Test (DST) in six primary schools in England with 44 children from 12 classes. Teachers perceived the DST to be useful and necessary. The great majority of teachers indicated that the test's findings were consistent with their expectations from pupils' classroom performance and that they…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Dyslexia, Foreign Countries

Engel, R. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1997
Describes an instrument for identifying students with learning disabilities that was tested on more than a thousand Israeli students (grades 4-10) with and without reading and writing disabilities. The instrument was found to be valid in locating student disabilities in reading, writing, and visual recall. (CR)
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries

Barthelemy, C.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1997
A French study of 136 children (ages 20-139 months) with developmental disabilities investigated the reliability and validity of the Revised Behavior Summarized Evaluation Scale (BSE-R) in evaluating autistic behavior in children with developmental delays. The BSE-R was found to be useful for progressive recording of the evolution of patients…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Developmental Delays, Disability Identification