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Social Competence as a Multifaceted Construct: How Do Students with Learning Disabilities Fare?
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Vaughn, Sharon; Haager, Diane – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1994
Social competence of 239 students with and without learning disabilities (LD) was followed from kindergarten through fifth grade. Students with LD demonstrated the same trends in social competence as non-LD students. Students with LD differed significantly from average-high-achieving non-LD students on social skills and behavior problems, but not…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Comparisons of Beginning Literacy Programs: Alternative Paths to the Same Learning Outcome.
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Traweek, Dean; Berninger, Virginia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
This study compared two beginning reading programs, Integrated Reading-Writing (IR-W) and DISTAR in comparable urban schools with students "at risk" for literacy problems. Although the two programs resulted in comparable gains in word recognition and overall reading achievement by the end of first grade, children in IR-W tended to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Educationally Disadvantaged