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Steven L. Meisler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reading is a complex, uniquely human invention for communication through print. It is a critical ability for making progress in education. Students with reading difficulties, the most common learning disability, struggle with reading fluency and accuracy. Skilled reading is enabled by the coordination of a network of brain regions interconnected…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Skills, Research Methodology
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Tereza J. Brumovská; Bernadine Brady – Child Care in Practice, 2024
The paper presents results of a phenomenological longitudinal qualitative study undertaken with mentors associated with the Big Brothers Big Sisters programme in the Czech Republic. Ten mentors were interviewed during the first month and after 5 and 10 months of their mentoring involvement employing phenomenological in-depth semi-structured…
Descriptors: Motivation, Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Merve Kasim; Yasemin Deringöl – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of technology-supported mathematical modeling method on the mathematical skills of a fourth-grade student with Mathematical Learning Disabilities. The study group consists of a fourth-grade student. It was discovered that the student lacked numerical and logical skills compared to other students.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 4, Mathematics Instruction
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Faezeh Shabanali Fami; Ali Akbar Arjmandnia; Hadi Moradi; Sharmin Esmaeili Anvar – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Prior studies have shown the efficacy of computer-based cognitive training programs in improving cognitive and academic functions in children diagnosed with a specific learning disorder (SLD). However, these studies often focused on center-based approaches without considering the involvement of parents or the inclusion of home-based tasks in…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Cognitive Ability, Academic Ability, Intervention
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Bray, Laura; Skubik-Peplaski, Camille; Ackerman, Kera B. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2021
Handwriting and spelling deficits are common struggles experienced by children with specific learning disabilities (SLD), but there is little evidence on interventions that target these areas for children with SLD. To systematically review the research investigating the effectiveness of handwriting and spelling interventions for children with SLD.…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Intervention
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Yang, Xuan; Xin, Yan Ping – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
During the past 20 years, numerous studies examining the use of problem posing in mathematics instruction have documented positive outcomes in terms of students' problem-solving skills, creativity, and attitudes and beliefs regarding the study of mathematics. However, despite these promising results, problem posing in mathematics instruction has…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction
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Hagarty, Imogen; Morgan, Gavin – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2020
Social-emotional learning programmes can be effective for typically-developing children and young people in improving their social-emotional skills. This systematic literature review, evaluating peer-reviewed literature from 2007 to 2018, investigated whether these programmes are also effective for children and young people with learning…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Children, Learning Disabilities
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Álava Sordo, Silvia; Cantero-García, María; Garrido-Hernansaiz, Helena; Sánchez-Iglesias, Iván; Santacreu Mas, José – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: The objective of this study is to find out if there are differences in selective and sustained attention between children with different subtypes of ADHD and children with learning disorders (LD), in order to improve the differential diagnosis between ADHD and PD and between the different subtypes of ADHD. Method: The sample…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Clinical Diagnosis, Learning Disabilities
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John, Smitha; Renumol, V. G. – International Journal of Learning Technology, 2022
With the recent advances in learning technologies, researchers are exploring the benefits of touch-based applications to reinforce handwriting skills in children with writing difficulties. One of the reasons for writing difficulties is the lack of fine motor skills. Hence, an Android application was developed for children with writing difficulties…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Skills, Psychomotor Skills, Educational Technology
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Lu, Yujie; Ma, Mei; Chen, Guozhong; Zhou, Xinlin – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is a specific mathematical learning disability, with a prevalence of around 3%-7% in the school-aged population. It negatively affects individuals, and even the national, development. Previous DD-intervention programs usually targeted on numerosity, number, simple arithmetic, or even general cognitive ability. The…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Developmental Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Activities
Ritchotte, Jennifer A.; Zaghlawan, Hasan Y. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2019
This study investigated the impact of training and coaching parents to use a higher level questioning strategy during shared reading time at home on the expressive language complexity of their young twice-exceptional children. Four parents were trained and coached to use higher level questions, based on the revised Bloom's taxonomy, with their…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Parents, Questioning Techniques, Children
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Kwok, F. Y.; Ansari, D. – Learning: Research and Practice, 2019
This commentary reviews and summarises the strides which neuroscience has made in our present understanding of the development of literacy and numeracy in children. Specifically, it draws attention to key insights from studies which have elucidated the possible neural mechanisms that may account for difficulties in the development of these…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Brain, Literacy, Numeracy
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McMaster, Kristen L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
In this commentary, I highlight key insights from research on learning disabilities (LD) reported in this special issue. Authors of each article describe innovative work that is expanding frontiers of LD knowledge, by focusing on vulnerable and understudied populations, using multiple methodologies and data sources, and building and refining…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Educational Theories, Educational Research, Disproportionate Representation
Didion, Lisa; Toste, Jessica R.; Benz, Sarah A.; Shogren, Karrie A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
Research findings illustrate the strong connection between self-determined learning and reading performance for students with or at risk for disabilities. Students with or at risk for learning disabilities (LDs), who are at increased risk for academic failure, may benefit from instruction to promote self-determination skills. Causal Agency Theory…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Elementary School Students
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Peterson, Amy K.; Fox, Carly B.; Israelsen, Megan – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: This systematic review synthesized a set of peer-reviewed studies published between 1985 and 2019 and addressed the effectiveness of existing narrative and expository discourse interventions for late elementary- and middle school-aged students with language-related learning disabilities. Method: A methodical search of the literature for…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments
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