Students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) make up approximately 40% of students receiving special education services. The definition of SLD has not changed since the original special education law was implemented in 1975. However, the definition of SLD gives little insight regarding the ...
Specific learning disabilities include a group of conditions classified as neurodevelopmental disorders, which imply a genetic cause with differentiated cognitive-behavioural expression influenced by environmental characteristics. This manuscript presents a theoretical review of causes, identification, and support ...
∗ This article formed the basis of a report on Specific Learning Disabilities while the senior author was a visiting academic in the Department of Special Education, University of Arizona, Tucson. The authors wish to thank members of the Department for their helpful comments in the development ...
Types of Learning Disabilities The Learning Disability category is the largest in the Special Education domain with 2.4 million learners diagnosed under IDEA. However, not all students with learning disabilities are identified. This may be due to the fact that a spectrum of severity exists. Students...
Learning/ Behavioral Disabilities Physical/ Developmental Disabilities LEARNING / BEHAVIORAL DISABILITY RESOURCES Sections Learning & Behavioral Challenges This section of the Special Education Community is devoted to providing resources to help teachers and professionals understand these students and to help ...
Contemporary society has an informal understanding of learning disabilities (LDs) in the form of students experiencing school failure because of an inability to acquire, assimilate, or retain academic content. The difficulty is that these LDs may not involve special education. According to Stichter et...
Specific Learning Disabilities SpecificLearningDisabilities NationalAssociationofSpecialEducationTeachers IDEAdefinesaspecificlearningdisabilityas:Thetermmeansadisorderinoneormoreofthebasicpsychologicalprocessesinvolvedinunderstandingorinusinglanguage,spokenorwritten,thatmaymanifestitselfinanimperfectabilitytolisten,...
Between Negative Stigma (Cultural Deprivation) and Positive Stigma (Learning Disability): The Historical Development of Two Special Education Tracks This article posits an updated, broader perspective on the concept of learning disabilities (LDs) than that accepted in the local Israeli literature, revea...
disabilities also suffer grave forms of racial discrimination and related intolerance and require specific measures to promote their participation [...] daccess-ods.un.org 在这方面,土著人民和残 疾人也遭遇各种形式的严重种族歧视 和 相 关的 不容 忍行为,需要采取具体措施,来促 进他们参与社会和 ...
Two FASTER birth years (2000, 2002) overlapped with URADD activities enhanced through Utah’s participation in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. This network uses record review methodology that has been validated in Utah [45, ...