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Skues, Jason L.; Cunningham, Everarda G. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study examined the validity of using teacher-administered educational and intelligence tests to screen students for learning disabilities (LDs). Twenty-seven Technical and Further Education (TAFE) students from regional Victoria who were enrolled in a program that was designed to reconnect school dropouts with education via TAFE participated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Screening Tests
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Bruggink, M.; Goei, S. L.; Koot, H. M. – Educational Research, 2013
Background: Traditionally, special educational needs (SEN) were often defined in terms of child deficits. Recently, there has been a tendency to define SEN in terms of (additional) support needed in the classroom. However, little is known about how teachers define students with special educational needs. To close this gap, characteristics of…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Elementary School Students
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Anders, Yvonne; Sammons, Pam; Taggart, Brenda; Sylva, Kathy; Melhuish, Edward; Siraj-Blatchford, Iram – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
The early identification of young children's special educational needs (SEN), as well as the development of specific strategies to support those children identified with special needs, are increasingly recognised as crucial to facilitating good adjustment to school and to ensuring that such children are helped to reach their full potential in…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Preschool Education
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McNamara, John K.; Scissons, Mary; Dahleu, Jody – Reading Improvement, 2005
This paper describes a study evolving out of a collaboration between university researchers, special educators, classroom teachers, speech pathologists, and division-level administrators who were responding to a call from provincial administrators concerned with meeting the needs of children with reading disabilities. The primary goal of the study…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Reading Difficulties, High Risk Students, Kindergarten