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Harris, Bryn; Kulkarni, Tara; Sullivan, Amanda L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
The identification of specific learning disabilities (SLD) remains fraught with controversy and uncertainty about professionals' capacity to appropriately identify special education eligibility. For students from linguistically minoritized backgrounds, the "exclusionary clause" prohibits the identification of learning difficulties…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Minority Group Students, State Policy
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Maki, Kathrin E.; Burns, Matthew K.; Sullivan, Amanda L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2018
Many school psychologists spend a large portion of their time conducting evaluations for special education, but school psychologists' confidence in learning disability (learning disability[ies] [LD]) identification has not been examined experimentally. This study examined differences in 376 school psychologists' confidence in their identification…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Decision Making
Sullivan, Amanda L.; A'Vant, Elizabeth; Baker, John; Chandler, Daphne; Graves, Scott; McKinney, Edward; Sayles, Tremaine – Communique, 2009
This article is one in a series developed by members of NASP's African American Subcommittee of the Multicultural Affairs Committee for school psychologists and other educators working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) student populations. Last month, we introduced the problem of disproportionality in special education in part one…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Disproportionate Representation, Special Education, Learning Disabilities