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Learning Disabilities or Teaching Disabilities? Rethinking Literacy Failure
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Applegate, Anthony J.; Applegate, Mary Dekonty; Turner, Jennifer D. – Reading Teacher, 2010
It takes a literacy leader to save some schools and districts from serious misconceptions about the nature of core reading programs as well as the nature of some reading disabilities. Well-prepared professionals can, by means of their extensive pedagogical repertoire, help districts to avoid compulsive repetition of the same fundamental types of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Learning Disabilities, Misconceptions
Using Whole Language with Students Who Have Language and Learning Disabilities.
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Zucker, Carol – Reading Teacher, 1993
Describes how the whole-language philosophy undergirds the teaching approaches used in a nontraditional special education program designed for students with language and learning disabilities. (SR)
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Primary Education, Program Descriptions, Story Telling
An Overview of Reading Disabilities and Learning Disabilities in the U.S.
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Harris, Albert J. – Reading Teacher, 1980
Analyzes current educational and legal trends involving attitudes toward and funding for reading disabilities and learning disabilities programs, and makes suggestions for the future. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
Counseling Parents of Children With Learning Disabilities
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Bricklin, Patricia M. – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Group Counseling, Leadership, Learning Disabilities
A Case Study of Middle School Reading Disability.
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Morris, Darrell; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes a case study of a sixth-grade student experiencing profound difficulties in learning to read, and the instructional intervention that helped him make significant progress. Comments on the public school's responsibility to provide effective remedial instruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Middle Schools