The Relationship of Reading Disabilities to Learning Disabilities
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Abstract
WINIFRED D. KIRK, M.A., Ph.B University of Arizona Janet Lerner has made a significant contribution to the field of learning disabilities (LD) in her article &dquo;Remedial Reading and Learning Disabilities: Are They the Same or Different?&dquo; Some differentiations she makes, however, may have opened a Pandora’s box of disagreement between and within the two fields. The article outlines differences relating to &dquo;the nature of the problem, the label to be given to the phenomenon, the diagnostic procedures required, and the proposed treatment for the disorder&dquo; (p. 119 [of text]). Categorizing and oversimplifying the differences into two loosely defined fields of study may have created a spurious dichotomy and misrepresentation of both fields.