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Dimitris Anastasiou – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2024
The field of specific learning disabilities (SLDs) has faced three kinds of challenges. "Constitutional challenges" arise from classification and definitional complexities, identification issues, comorbidity, and ontological debates. "Internal challenges" include the inherent difficulties of scientific thinking that compete…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Accessibility (for Disabled), Conflict, Classification
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Stichter, Janine; Stormont, Melissa; Buranova, Nargiza; Herzog, Melissa; O'Donnell, Rose – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Research continues to highlight discrepancies between clinical diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and determination of special education eligibility for services within school settings. However, limited research has been conducted on the impact of those discrepancies for the identification of appropriate services within schools. The aim…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Special Education, Eligibility
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Cook, Sara Cothren; Cook, Bryan G.; Cook, Lysandra – Exceptionality, 2017
Evidence-based reforms that emphasize the identification and implementation of empirically validated practices are at the forefront of educational research, and recently, the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC; 2014) published a set of standards for establishing evidence-based practices in special education. Although 30 years of research…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Disabilities, Evidence Based Practice
Juniel, Pamela Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The identification and implementation of evidence-based practices by special education and general education teachers continues to be an issue in the field of education (Cook & Cook, 2011; Cook, Tankersley, Cook, & Landrum, 2008). Since the mandates of providing students with disabilities access to the general education curricula (IDEA,…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, School Districts, Professional Development, Special Education