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Courtenay A. Barrett; Kathrin E. Maki; Steven R. Chesnut – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Schools conduct comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations to identify students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) and determine whether they qualify for special education services. This decision-making process is complex and research has documented many factors influencing SLD identification decisions. One such factor may be…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Beliefs, Disability Identification, School Psychologists
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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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Allison F. Gilmour; Justin Harper; Blair Lloyd; Alyssa Van Camp – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Response to intervention (RTI) is a method for providing academic support to students and for identifying specific learning disabilities (SLDs). Using interrupted time series and hazard models, we examined if statewide RTI adoption in the U.S. state of Tennessee was associated with changes in rates of SLD and first-time SLD identification in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Intervention
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Caroline Jolly; Marianne Jover; Jérémy Danna – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Handwriting deficits, or dysgraphia, are present in several neurodevelopmental disorders. To investigate whether dysgraphia differs according to the associated disorder, we performed a detailed analysis of handwriting in a group of French children with developmental coordination disorders (DCD), reading disorder (RD), or comorbid RD and DCD.…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Handwriting, Students with Disabilities