Showing papers on "Specific learning disability published in 1971"

The not so specific learning disability population.

Abstract: And yet, as long as current practices remain unchanged, it seems more than likely that the group of students serviced under such an Act will continue to be as heterogeneous with regard to both etiology and appropriate remedial strategies as the learning disabilities (disorders) population has been in the past. Despite all that has been written about children with learning disabilities in the last several years, neither the nature nor the implications of the heterogeneity which exists in this population have been widely discussed in the literature. In particular, little has been written about the likelihood that, in practice, the group categorized as learning disabled includes not only youngsters who actually have major disorders which interfere with their learning, but also youngsters whose learning problems stem primarily from the deficiencies of the learning environment' in which they are enrolled. The purposes of this article are: (a) to discuss an interactional view of factors which determine school success and failure, (b) to relate this model to the heterogeneity which exists in the learning disability population, and (c) to suggest procedures for identifying and meeting the remedial needs of major subgroups in the learning disability population.