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Direct linkCollins, Belva C.; Ludlow, Barbara L. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2018
The field of special education's focus on moderate and severe disabilities (MSD) has undergone a number of changes in the past five decades. Some have been philosophical, some based on research, some based on mandated practices through U.S. law, and some based on the development of better technologies. While pioneers in the field first established…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Severe Disabilities, Severity (of Disability), Special Education
Download full textHallahan, Daniel P.; Mercer, Cecil D. – 2001
Although the federal government's involvement in learning disabilities through task forces, legislation, and funding has been evident only since the 1960s and 1970s, the roots of learning disabilities can be traced back to the early 1800s. Learning disabilities are one of the newest categories officially recognized by the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Educational History, Educational Practices
Spenciner, Loraine J.; Cohen, Libby G. – Diagnostique, 1995
This overview of recent developments in redefining attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder summarizes articles about assessment instruments and procedures and identifies important issues, including the construct of hyperactivity as it relates to attention, classification systems, and the lack of technical adequacy of many assessment instruments…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Definitions, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis
Scruggs, Thomas E.; Mastropieri, Margo A. – Diagnostique, 1995
Current issues in the assessment of students with learning disabilities are identified, including use of physiological and neuropsychological measures, discrepancy criteria, curriculum-based measurement, dynamic assessment, performance and portfolio assessment, and assessment of learning disabilities in bilingual and multicultural contexts.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Based Assessment, Disability Identification
Chesapeake Inst., Washington, DC. – 1992
This monograph presents the executive summaries of research syntheses developed at five special centers addressing assessment and interventions for children with attention deficit disorders (ADD). The Center at the Arkansas Children's Hospital (Roscoe A. Dykman et al.) reviewed the literature and conducted meetings on the assessment and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Change, Disability Identification, Drug Therapy
Reid, D. Kim; And Others – 1996
This book provides an overview of cognitive approaches to learning disabilities, the theoretical and methodological underpinnings that support them, and the body of knowledge that such work has generated. Part 1 contains the following five papers: "The Educational Perspective" (Wayne P. Hresko and others); "Educational Trends in Learning…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum
