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Critical Issues in Specific Learning Disability Identification: What We Need to Know about the PSW Model
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McGill, Ryan J.; Styck, Kara M.; Palomares, Ronald S.; Hass, Michael R. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2016
As a result of the upcoming Federal reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA), practitioners and researchers have begun vigorously debating what constitutes evidence-based assessment for the identification of specific learning disability (SLD). This debate has resulted in strong support for a method that…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Disabilities, Federal Legislation
Intelligence Testing and the Field of Learning Disabilities: A Historical and Critical Perspective.
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Osgood, Robert L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1984
The article reviews the origins of the intelligence testing movement in the U.S., discusses the difficulties inherent in measuring intelligence, and considers alternatives to current LD identification procedures. (CL)
Descriptors: Disability Identification, History, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests
Defining Reading and Writing Disabilities with and without IQ: A Flexible, Developmental Perspective.
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Berninger, Virginia; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1992
Developmental and criterion reading and writing measures were administered to 300 primary-level students, revealing that elimination of IQ in the definition of learning disabilities would dramatically affect who is identified as learning disabled. A two-stage assessment model analyzing absolute criteria without IQ and relative criteria with IQ is…
Descriptors: Definitions, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods