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Cook, Ann – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1980
The Learning and Diagnostic Centre provides the following services: a remedial clinic program, academic assessment and programing services, and an assessment unit. (DLS)
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
Download full textShepard, Lorrie A. – 1982
The assessment and diagnosis of learning disabilities (LD) in the school is problematic. How do educators determine who is learning disabled? What practices are recommended? The main focus of the paper is on specific, relatively technical points that influence the validity of assessment. Since technical concerns are only one of the factors…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
Peer reviewedHoy, Cheri; Gregg, Noel – Journal of College Admissions, 1986
The emerging population of learning disabled college students is presenting a new challenge to college professionals: admission officers, counselors, financial aid personnel, academic advisors, and professors. Learning disablities interfere with the ability to perceive, process, sort, store, or retrieve information regardless of level of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), College Students, Educational Assessment
Ehrlich, Marc I. – 1982
A child's school disorder can, and most often does, exist within the complexity of the family's transactional patterns and must be dealt with in this context. To do so, a conceptual model of family dynamics is needed. Minuchin (1979) offers a theoretical framework to help structure such a model. He and his colleagues identified five common…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Family Characteristics, Family Influence, Family Problems
Manna Foundation, Inc., Greeley, CO. – 1980
The objectives of the SPEAR (Specialized Psycho-Educational Adult Remediation) project were to both introduce and incorporate mainstreamed adult basic education through offering specialized services to learning-disabled adults. This program both identified and educationally remediated specific learning disabilities and included educational and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Career Planning, Concept Formation, Educational Diagnosis
