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Learning Disabilities: Implications for Policy regarding Research and Practice--A Report by the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, March 2011
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Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD) affirms that the construct of learning disabilities represents a valid, unique, and heterogeneous group of disorders, and that recognition of this construct is essential for sound policy and practice. An extensive body of scientific research on learning disabilities continues to support…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Learning Disabilities, Accountability, Research and Development
Direct Instruction: Teaching for Generalization, Application and Integration of Knowledge.
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Tarver, Sara G. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2000
This article presents the goals, philosophy, and theory of the Direct Instruction model. The theory stresses the learning of generalizations with multiple examples through a highly structured curriculum. Connections between theory and practice are illustrated with a variety of examples of thinking operations from Direct Instruction programs.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Disabilities, Educational Philosophy
The Strategies Instruction Model: A Research-Validated Intervention for Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Clark, Frances L. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2000
This article presents the strategies instruction model as an effective intervention for students with learning disabilities. It describes the model's components (curriculum, instruction, environment), its theoretical basis, the teacher's role, teacher-student interaction, and appropriate contexts. Studies of the model's effectiveness are…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Interactive, Collaborative Teaching and Learning: One Key to Student Success.
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Bos, Candace S. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2000
This article presents the interactive, collaborative teaching and learning model developed to teach content area reading to students with learning disabilities or other learning problems. It identifies interactive and collaborative aspects of the model and explains its theoretical underpinnings, instructional decisions, the role of the teacher,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design
Effective Teaching as Effective Intervention.
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Stanovich, Paula J.; Jordan, Anne – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2000
This article considers how good teaching in general education classes can be good intervention for students with learning disabilities. It urges combining Big-S Science (the educational research literature) with little-s science (a teacher's study of what works in his/her classroom). It stresses the teacher's beliefs about students with…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Intervention Research: Common Themes.
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Kline, Frank – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2000
This article summarizes the journal's special issue on intervention research for students with learning disabilities with emphasis on common themes in the preceding papers: (1) modeling in instruction, (2) the provision of feedback, (3) instruction for generalization, and (4) teacher preparation. (Contains one reference.) (DB)
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback, Generalization
LDA Educational Intervention Research Symposium Intervention Perspectives and Applications.
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Parrill, Melinda; Satterfield, Jule – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2000
This article summarizes the journal's special issue on educational intervention research for students with learning disabilities and identifies the following common themes in the preceding papers: (1) effective teaching, (2) the match between teacher and learner characteristics, (3) flexibility in delivery and use, and (4) teacher and student…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention