ERIC Number: EJ282740
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982-Aug
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Multicultural Considerations in Assessment and Treatment of Learning Disabilities.
Lynch, Eleanor W.; Lewis, Rena B.
Learning Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v1 n8 p93-103 Aug 1982
Some of the critical factors that have prevented equitable treatment of the minority student with learning disabilities are considered. Attention is directed to definitional issues, discriminatory practices in special education, issues in identification and assessment, treatment considerations, and difficulties inherent in the differentiation of learning disability and cultural differences. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cultural Differences, Diagnostic Teaching, Disability Discrimination, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Minority Groups, Parent Attitudes, Parent School Relationship, Student Evaluation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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