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Altin, Annika; Geertsema, Salome; le Roux, Mia; Graham, Marien – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Despite extensive research on the specific learning disorder (developmental dyslexia) -- SLD (DD), many fallacies still cause confusion amongst professionals worldwide. These myths involve the characteristics, diagnoses and treatment of SLD (DD) and should be eradicated. Aim: The authors aimed to determine the knowledge, needs and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Dyslexia, Misconceptions
Armendariz, Gina M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The present study assessed the perceptions of general education teachers, special education teachers, and school psychologists in the acceptability of the either the Response to Intervention model (RTI) or the Severe Discrepancy model in the identification of a student with a Specific Learning Disability (SLD). The study consisted of 363…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Learning Disabilities, Response to Intervention, Special Education Teachers
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Shenoy, Sunaina – Berkeley Review of Education, 2014
English language learners (ELLs) who are in the process of acquiring English as a second language for academic purposes, are often misidentified as having Language Learning Disabilities (LLDs). Policies regarding the assessment of ELLs have undergone many changes through the years, such as the introduction of a Response to Intervention (RTI)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Impairments, Language Skills
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Troia, Gary A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2005
This article addresses ways in which speech-language pathologists can play a proactive and substantive part in schoolwide reading disability prevention and intervention efforts within the responsiveness to intervention framework. First, the driving forces that led Congress to alter how schools may operationalize learning disabilities are…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Speech Language Pathology
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Moore-Brown, Barbara; Huerta, Maria; Uranga-Hernandez, Yvana; Pena, Elizabeth D. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2006
Dynamic assessment uses a test-teach-retest approach that can assist clinicians in differentiating between children with learning disabilities and children with learning differences. This article describes a model of dynamic assessment of narratives and its use with children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Case studies…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Learning Disabilities, Student Evaluation, Case Studies
Masters, M. Gay; Stecker, Nancy A.; Katz, Jack – 1998
This book offers the latest available information on central auditory processing disorders (CAPDs) drawn from a State University of New York at Buffalo conference on CAPDs in September of 1996. It is divided into three parts: introduction, management approaches, and specific methods and populations. Chapters include: (1) "Overview and Update…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Attention Deficit Disorders, Auditory Discrimination