Top Research Papers on Learning Disabilities

A hybrid method based on the assessment of low achievement with norm-referenced tests, instructional response, and other disorders and contextual factors that may be comorbid or contraindicative of Specific Learning Disabilities is proposed.

Bifactor models were used to identify variance shared across academic domains (academic g), as well as variance unique to reading, mathematics, and writing, consistent with the notion of SLDs in these domains.

It is argued that the use of digital learning environments that encourage participant access and success may reduce the need for labels of disability in the future.

The findings showed that teachers' attitudes towards digital learning for people with disabilities came to a high degree.

The chapter “Specific Learning Disability and its Types” is an effort to educate the readers, specially the educators about a developmental disorder that begins by school age, although it may not be recognized until later. It involves on-going problems learning key academic skills, including reading, writing, and math. The chapter makes an attempt to bring about understanding of SLD, brief historical perspective and its classification. The chapter elaborately discusses the seven types of specific learning disability according to Learning Disabilities Association of America. The chapter centers...

It is presented here the deleterious consequences that CVI can have upon learning and social interaction, and how these can be given behavioral labels without the underlying visual causes being considered.

This research goal is to perform Multilayer Perceptron of deep learning methods for predicting learning disorders (LD).

The main topics of the book are learning disabilities, trauma, resilience and coping with stress, and violence, peace building and disaster management. The authors of the book articles are from Indonesia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Iran, Ethiopia, Morrocco, Portugal and Germany. The interdisciplinary character of this book is represented in contributions of scientists from different areas of Psychology, Special Education and Sociology.

Students with Specific Learning Disabilities, tend to have low academic performance because of the cognitive disorders and deficits of their working memory, as well as executing fuctions like these of processing - organizing and recalling information. Development of the Metacognitive skills, like those that presented by Drigas & Mitsea (2020), as 8 pillars of Metacognition, such as self-Awareness, self-Monitoring and Self-Regulation, helping these students recognize their weaknesses and introduce strategies and tactics will assist them to compensate their cognitive deficits, by becoming more f...

This article traces and summarises historiographical trends in the history of learning disability. It identifies three major waves of historical approaches beginning with a medicalised analysis which emerged in the early twentieth century. This presented a story of medical progress which began with the asylum movement of the nineteenth century and represented ‘idiots’ as creatures of the asylum and objects of the medicalised gaze. In the 1990s a new social history challenged these assumptions, focusing on the iniquities of institutionalisation and the eugenics period, while attempting to give ...

Are boys at a higher risk of learning disabilities than girls? This simple question has roiled science and medicine for decades. Boys are diagnosed with learning disabilities at a higher rate than girls. But studies that have randomly sampled boys and girls and evaluated them with comprehensive neuropsychological testing suggest the prevalence of learning disabilities is similar between boys and girls. That is, equal numbers of boys and girls perform on these tests in a way consistent with a learning disability diagnosis. Some authors have suggested that boys who are struggling in the classroo...

Articles in this special issue talk about how people with learning disabilities need choices, opportunities, support and training to make digital inclusion happen so they can use technology like everybody else.

In the present work, in order to investigate the relationship between learning and emotional difficulties, the method of literature review was used. In particular, the questions that this research was required to answer were about whether children with learning difficulties are at a greater risk of manifestating emotional difficulties, but also to identify the emotional difficulty that is responsible for the most common learning disability in this particular group of students. For this purpose, a research of both international and Greek articles, older and more recent ones, was conducted depen...

The “360 degree analysis” (360DA) framework is introduced and applied to the overlap between RD and MD and confirms extensive similarities between arithmetic and reading development in terms of rote learning, executive function (EF), and affective trauma, but also major differences in Terms of the conceptual needs, the motor coordination needs, and the methods of scaffolding.

It was revealed that VR brain-rewiring techniques constitute effective metac cognitive strategies for people with various disorders and the need to create virtual metacognitive training environments to accelerate inclusion, equity, and peak performance is highlighted.

Among adults with LD or ADHD, disability affirmation was a meaningful predictor of life satisfaction, and disability acceptance predicted general self-efficacy, and Disability identity attitudes are worthy of clinical and scholarly attention.

It is found that most, but not all, families struggled with remote learning, both when children’s specific needs while learning at home differed from their needs at school, and when schools failed to provide adequate accommodations and services remotely.

The effects of COVID-19 have included many temporary school closures which led students moving from a face to face setting to a virtual learning environment. Online learning may present unique challenges for the parents of young students with disabilities. These challenges that parents of students with disabilities face are explored through a qualitative approach in an interview with a parent. Challenges are highlighted through themes from the interview such as technology issues, lack of student engagement and social interaction, and additional responsibilities for the parent. Based upon the i...

This toolkit brings together a range of resources to promote understanding about what it is like to live with a learning disability, allowing healthcare professionals to adjust the care they deliver and helping people with a Learning Disabilities accesses the services they need.

specific examples of ICTs that aid children with learning difficulties that promote the equal participation of all students in the educational system and consequently prepare them for everyday life outside of the school.

Associate Professor, College of Education, Butler University, 2014 current Coordinator of Global Experiences for the College of Education, Butler University, 2017 current Interim Chair of Undergraduate Learning and Teaching Teams, Butler University, 2019 current Multilingual and Exceptional Learner Program Coordinator, Butler University, 20112017 Assistant Professor, College of Education, Butler University, 2010 2014

A distinction is to be made between LD and dementia, the former originating early in life and the latter after 18 years of age, although not reversible, much can be done to enable people with LDs to live as normally as possible.

The study aimed to investigate the parent’s perspectives toward the effect of online learning on their child’s learning, particularly, the ones with learning disabilities. This descriptive study randomly selected one hundred and ninety-three parents with students with learning difficulties. All participants received an online designed form of survey to achieve study objectives. The results carryout that:  the parents has medium perspectives toward the effects of online learning, while they have high perspectives toward factors related to their children . Furthermore, there is a statistically s...

This article seeks to explore the impact pervasive victimization has on people with learning disabilities' experience of community and participation and, through this, their health and wellbeing and argues that abuse, disrespect and devaluing profoundly erode wellbeing.

Terms like special child and disability are commonly used now. People understand that something is lacking with the child when such terms are used. But this awareness is incomplete and has brought in lot of confusion. This paper aims to bring out such misconceptions and its implication while also clarifying the terms ‘Intellectual disability’ and ‘Learning disability’. A clear distinction of these two terms can be arrived with the help of the IQ levels of each category. Intellectual disability is characterized by a below average IQ level (IQ < 70) while learning disability is characterized by ...

Key Findings  There are 1,400 estimated number of people with learning disabilities known to services (administrative prevalence)  There are 6,116 estimated number of people with learning disabilities (true prevalence)  Median age of death for people with learning disabilities is 51.5 years which is significantly lower than the life expectancy in men and women  Main conditions associated with learning disabilities deaths are degenerative conditions, downs syndrome and cerebral palsy. Trends  By 2030 the numbers of people with learning disabilities are predicted to increase by 24% in those...

This study aims to determine the services of children with special needs in terms of identification, assessment and curriculum development models carried out by elementary schools. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. The subjects in this study were one teacher and one student with special needs, namely students with difficulties studying at                SDN Babakan Jawa III, Majalengka District, Majalengka Regency. This research procedure includes three stages, namely: the pre-field stage, field implementation, and the member check stage and then data analysis ...

The purpose of this study was to explore how learning disabilities should be reconceptualized in school education in response to future educational needs. Firstly, we analyzed the legal definitions of learning disabilities and related terms, as outlined in the「Act on Special Education for Persons with Disabilities, etc.」and「Act on Gurantee of Basic Academic Ability」. Based on this analysis, we proposed specific core conceptual elements and novel criteria for a reconceptualized understanding of learning disabilities. Second, based on cases related to the identification and diagnosis of learning...

Physicians should be aware of common tests used to assess for learning disabilities, understand the laws that support provision of special education, and recognize the main categories of learning disabilities.

An overview of constipation and related concerns in people with learning disabilities (LDs) and/or autistic people is given and recommendations to primary care to help address this issue are provided.

Clinical experience at the Gesell Institute of Human Development suggests that a very large percentage of the children referred as learning disabled have been children of apparently quite normal academic potential who simply were overplaced in school.

This article advocates an approach to supporting students who experience difficulties in learning, irrespective of nosology, particularly in the key areas of literacy and numeracy. In the state of Queensland, Australia, a distinction has been made between students' experiencing learning difficulties and those who have learning disabilities (LD). However, government priorities for improved achievement in literacy and numeracy have focused schools on the performance of all low-achieving students, without regard to diagnostic category. Many are now mobilizing a schoolwide effort that combines res...

While severe reading disorders are clearly a major concern, even mild deficits in reading skills are likely to portend significant difficulties in academic learning, and are worthy of early identification and intervention.

By reflecting on your own course while reading the Lesson Content, you will be guided to consider possible modifications to your course specifically related to learning disabilities. By sharing and discussing course modifications with other participants, you will develop an awareness of additional strategies and applications of the issues related to accommodations for students with learning disabilities.

An unsuccessful search continues for a definition of learning disabilities within a unidimensional framework without recognition of the lack of uniddimensional characteristics in children.

A variety of characteristics, primarily negative in nature, have been associated with learning disabilities. A review of the empirical research which has compared learning disabled children with the academically successful finds little data to support these notions. Behaviors which discriminate groups do not appear to include simple perception and discrimination, hyperactivity, nor neurological deficits, and there is some question about the intelligence level of sampled children. Behaviors which do discriminate groups include ability to pay attention, difficulty with complex tasks, and tasks w...

Valuing People Now is the Department of Health's proposed three-year plan of priorities for the learning disability agenda, based on the Valuing People white paper, published in 2001.

It is postulated that the learning disabled label has become reflective of a problem related more to social structure than to children, and it is time that the optimism orginally connected with the term should lead to greater attention to individual needs and less emphasis on categorical concerns.

A multidimensional perspective that integrates aspects of these three views is proposed and a distinction is drawn between production and mediational subtypes of learning disorders, and emphasis is placed on an idiographic approach to assessment and treatment.

PART II: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND PROGRAM PLANNING This study of learning disabilities (reported in Part I,) although conducted in a medical center clinic by a multi-disciplinary team, had a strong educational orientation. Three of the primary investigators had broad experience in public school education before coming to the clinic. We had been involved in public school psychoeducational evaluation of pupils, in the development of public school reading programs, and in special education. The issues and questions presented here in Part II are derived from a review of pertinent lit...

Whether any of the learning disabled child's unique ability patterns, learning styles, and behavioral attributes become assets or severe liabilities depends on the nature of the school tasks helshe is expected to accomplish and the settings in which the child studies, lives, and plays.

Mass media have triumphed! The word is out. The name of the game (depending upon your own personal preference) may be dyslexia, learning disability, perceptual handicap, specific language disability, primary reading disability, vulnerable child, or interjacent child. And, if these are unsuitable, there are many more labels to choose from. (With the recent success of the lunar landing perhaps it would be appropriate to label the hyperactive child outerspacent since he appears to be in orbit most of the time anyway!) While all the current publicity certainly contains plus factors, it is unfortun...

In the September issue of PIR (3:91, 1981), Table 3 (p 95) has errors in the dose of dextroamphetamine sulfate sustained release capsules. Correct values are: ages 5 to 7, 5-15 mg dose, 5-15 mg dose/day; ages 8 to 12, 15-40 mg dose, 15-40 mg dose/day.

There are several concepts regarding learning disabilities that, if kept in mind, can assuage the abuse of learning disabilities educators.

Researchers, policy makers, and teacher trainers, who were identified by peers as being on the “cutting edge” of research and programming in learning disabilities, responded to surveys in 1975 and 1981.

A capacity conference, hosted by Dr. William Cruickshank a t the University of Michigan, recently reviewed the accomplishments of the learning disabilities field, dissected current developing trends, and probed the future. Using a logical perspective of the field, the presentors were able to weave a positive approach o u t of the current web of issues and viewpoints. The needs of “these” children dominated the conference, not the politics of ambition or discipline. Setting the tone of the meeting, Cruickshank faced the problems created by the extraordinary and rapid growth of the psychoeducati...

Those involved in teacher training are becoming concerned over the acute shortage of trained jersonnel in the area of learning disabilities. In order to meet the current critical need in this area, nstitutes of higher learning and school systems are going to have to train the best teachers wailable in comprehensive workshops, institutes, and other in-service programs. Special Education wograms at the college and university level, particularly, will need to re-evaluate current course fferings and include courses in learning disabilities for both regular and special class teachers.

The approach to learning disabilities in this paper emphasizes the potential for learning of any organism under extraordinary environ-mental conditions—regardless of the inner status of the organism. Subjects diagnosed as learning disabled are so designated on the basis of their performances under ordinary environ-mental conditions. However, nothing precludes their functioning more normally under ap-propriately exceptional conditions. A dis-tioction is drawn between contingencies in the organism enabling him to perform and causes in the environment producing his performance. Implications for i...

To stand back and view learning disabilities from afar is to see a landscape of rugged and diverse terrain. Over the past quarter of a century the field has grown up; that is, the young schoolchildren whose parents banded together in the early 1960s to get services for them are now thirty-something and going to their children's IEP meetings. Conferences on learning disabilities now include sessions on transition, college programs, and employment. Some corners of the landscape have been repainted. "Hyperactivity" and "short attention span" have become "attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder" ...

The fact that there are uncertainties underlines the importance of linking evaluations of treatment with any large-scale screening programmes, and the possible need for more facilities to help general practitioners to cope with the longterm care of hypertensive patients is worth examining.