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Download full textKeogh, Barbara K. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2005
This article discusses issues of classification and identification, while evaluating some of the continuing controversies about learning disabilities (LD) related to those topics. The author suggests that many problems have to do with confusion between the two. Despite years of effort and an extraordinary increase in the number of individuals…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Individual Characteristics, Classification, Learning Disabilities
Rueda, Robert – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2005
A recent overview of the field of learning disabilities (Torgesen, 2004) laid out several issues that will likely consume the field for the foreseeable future, including problems of definition and etiology, differentiation of learning disabilities from other disabilities, and issues in identification and service delivery. It has been approximately…
Descriptors: Etiology, Learning Disabilities, Classification, Identification
Peer reviewedHammill, Donald D.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1988
The development of a new definition of learning disabilities accepted by organizations comprising the National Joint Committee for Learning Disabilities in 1981 is reviewed including reasons for a new definition, procedures followed in its development, the Committee's intended meaning for each phrase, and the current status of the definition. (DB)
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences, Etiology
Reschly, Daniel J.; Hosp, John L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2004
Specific learning disabilities (SLD) conceptual definitions and classification criteria were examined through a survey of state education agency (SEA) SLD contact persons in an effort to update information last published in 1996. Most prior trends continued over the last decade. Results showed that SEA SLD classification criteria continue to be…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Definitions, Evaluation Criteria, Special Education
Peer reviewedKeilitz, Ingo; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1979
The authors describe a research effort funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention which is addressing the hypothesized link between learning disabilties and juvenile delinquency. (SBH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Definitions, Delinquency, Followup Studies
