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Odegard, Timothy N.; Farris, Emily A.; Middleton, Anna E.; Oslund, Eric; Rimrodt-Frierson, Sheryl – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
All but seven U.S. states have laws that govern some aspects of dyslexia screening, intervention, or teacher training in public schools. However, in the three states that mandate child-level reporting, data indicate lower than expected rates of dyslexia identification when compared with commonly accepted dyslexia prevalence rates. To better…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Screening Tests, Disability Identification, Incidence
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Tambyraja, Sherine R.; Schmitt, Mary Beth; Farquharson, Kelly; Justice, Laura M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: The present study focused on the identification and stability of language and literacy profiles of primary school children receiving school-based language therapy over the course of one academic year. Method: Participants included 272 early elementary school-age children (144 boys, 128 girls) who had been clinically identified as having a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Disability Identification, Speech Language Pathology, Language Impairments
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Hanchon, Timothy A.; Allen, Ryan A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
From its inception as a disability category in the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, serving students under the special education category Emotional Disturbance (ED) has been a challenging task for school psychologists. In particular, the vague and ambiguous federal definition has created an environment in which inconsistent assessment…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Emotional Disturbances, School Psychologists, Evaluation Methods
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Connor, Carol M.; Alberto, Paul A.; Compton, Donald L.; O'Connor, Rollanda E. – National Center for Special Education Research, 2014
Reading difficulties and disabilities present serious and potentially lifelong challenges. Children who do not read well are more likely to be retained a grade in school, drop out of high school, become a teen parent, or enter the juvenile justice system. Building on the extant research and seminal studies, including the National Reading Panel and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Reading Skills, At Risk Students
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Dix, Jennifer; Schafer, Susan – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
Basic information for regular classroom teachers with students who are both gifted and learning disabled covers definition of this population; incidence; characteristics; and six teaching strategies, such as flexibility in how student demonstrates mastery of material, adapting for reading differences, and using attention-directing techniques. A…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Definitions, Disability Identification, Gifted Disabled
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Safran, Stephen P. – Exceptional Children, 2001
This article provides a synthesis of recent literature on Asperger syndrome, a condition that has received little attention in American special education. The analysis addresses the syndrome's history, definition, differential diagnosis from other pervasive developmental disorders, screening procedures, and emerging educational interventions.…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Children, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis
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Torgesen, Joseph K.; Wagner, Richard K. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1998
Summarizes recent studies identifying specific linguistic-cognitive markers for reading disabilities and describes efforts to develop measures of these markers in the areas of phonological awareness, rapid automatic naming, and verbal short-term memory. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Decoding (Reading), Disability Identification, Dyslexia
Houghton, Joan; Coonts, Teresa; Jordan, Beth; Schafer, Jacqueline, Ed. – 1999
This manual was written specifically to help school nurses conduct screenings for Usher syndrome, a genetic condition that involves deafness or hearing loss and the progressive loss of vision. It provides information on the step-by-step process of how to conduct a screening, the actual forms needed for a screening, and resources for referring…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Riviere, Adrienne – 1998
Adult education practitioners need informal measures for determining whether particular learners may have a learning disability. The process of identifying individuals with possible learning disabilities begins with a simple screening. Screening does not happen just once; it is an ongoing process that serves as the practitioner's guide, at…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students
Lenz, B. Keith, Ed.; Sturomski, Neil A.; Corley, Mary Ann – 1998
This document contains four monographs on serving adults with learning disabilities. The preface (Mary Ann Corley) explains how the papers were commissioned. The primary and secondary characteristics of learning-disabled adults and the implications of those characteristics for adult literacy programs are discussed in "Characteristics of Adults…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students