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Download full textMacdonald, Stephen – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2019
This article discusses six theoretical frameworks of disability which dominate studies of dyslexia: (1) the biomedical, (2) the biopsychosocial, (3) the social model, (4) the critical realist, (5) the post-structuralistic, and (6) the neurodivergent approach. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how models of disability alter our understandings…
Descriptors: Models, Dyslexia, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities
Pogrow, Stanley – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, 2015
There is little discussion in the Design-Based Research (DBR) literature on how to design an intervention that has the potential to be highly effective. The act of designing is usually viewed as engineering something from theory or research on best practices. This paper challenges that universal belief and presents successful design as an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Design, Thinking Skills, Creative Thinking
Direct linkKozleski, Elizabeth B.; Huber, Jennifer J. – Theory Into Practice, 2010
RTI has the potential to meet the challenges of increasing diversity in student populations and the need for increasingly complex systems of instructional design. Three fundamental shifts in understanding systems and systems change must ground RTI policy and implementation work. First, RTI must be seen as an activity system nested within a larger…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Disabilities, School Districts, Educational Change
Peer reviewedMorris, Robin D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Briefly reviews conceptual and operational limitations of classic approaches to classifying learning disabled children. Examines new classification research with learning disabled populations which is investigating alternative classification schemes through systematic and empirical hypothesis-testing paradigms, and sparking renewed interest in…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
Mellard, Daryl F. – Learning Disabilities Focus, 1990
The article describes the eligibility model developed by the community college system of California for students with learning disabilities. Major activities of the research and development process leading to the eligibility model are detailed including components, procedures, and criteria. The process combines clinical and databased evidence with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Eligibility, Handicap Identification, Learning Disabilities
Vellutino, Frank R. – Scientific American, 1987
Examines previous hypotheses of the causes of dyslexia. Proposes that dyslexia results from a subtle language deficiency rather than from defects in the visual system. Discusses current theories and assesses instructional strategies for dyslexics. (ML)
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Instructional Improvement, Language Processing, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedGavelek, James R.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
In response to a previous article, the paper finds weaknesses in the mechanistic worldview represented by the emphasis on information processing research in constructing a metatheory for learning disabilities. An alternative--contextualist--world view is proposed which is holistic, social, and developmental providing insight into processes of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Models
Peer reviewedSwanson, H. Lee – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
In response to articles concerning the author's earlier paper, the paper responds to criticisms concerning contextualism, the role of metatheory, distinctions between basic and applied research, cognitive components and specificity, the science of learning disabilities, neurological indices, model validation, and the nature of learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Models
Bradley, Renee, Ed.; Danielson, Louis, Ed.; Hallahan, Daniel P., Ed. – 2002
This volume on the identification of learning disabilities (LD) offers chapters that provide comprehensive reviews of the research evidence underlying different aspects of LD and was the product of a 2001 general conference followed up by a small research forum. Contributors include researchers, parents, practitioners, and administrators. A final…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Definitions, Disability Identification
Capute, Arnold J., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This volume, the proceedings of a 1992 conference, presents 14 papers which take a neuropsychological approach to attention deficit disorder, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity, and learning disabilities. Papers have the following titles and authors: "A New Conceptual Model for Dyslexia" (Sally E. Shaywitz et al.);…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Depression (Psychology)
