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Leah K. Tiisler; Kenya E. Wolff – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Children's picturebooks have a unique potential to support young children with learning disabilities, to allow them to see themselves reflected in the stories, to educate others around them about their experiences and their needs, and to better represent the diversity of learners. Are today's picturebooks that portray characters with learning…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Learning Disabilities, Literary Devices, Content Analysis
Rachelle M. Johnson; David Hernández-Saca; Mércédes Adell Cannon – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2024
We center the voice of Dwyan Moore, a Black 12-year-old boy, during his transition of being diagnosed with a learning dis/Ability. We do so to grapple with the problem of disproportionate representation in special education along race and dis/Ability, with particular attention to educational leadership. Disproportionate representation is a…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Special Education, Educational Environment, Student Attitudes
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Farnsworth, Megan – Young Exceptional Children, 2018
Overrepresentation of Dual Language Learners (DLLs) in special education remains a problem even after 40 years of inquiry. One factor is that the U.S. federal government has neither clearly explained the definition of Specific Learning Disability (SLD) nor operationally defined it to identify children for special education services. This lack of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Disabilities, English Language Learners, Pragmatics