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ERIC Number: EJ349250
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Diagnostic Overshadowing among School Psychologists Working with Hearing-Impaired Learners.
Goldsmith, Larry; Schloss, Patrick J.
American Annals of the Deaf, v131 n4 p288-93 Oct 1986
Analysis of diagnoses made and treatment recommended by school psychologists (N=100) for a case study (half identifying the student as deaf and half not identifying the student as handicapped) suggested the existence of "diagnostic overshadowing" (when a primary disability diagnosis alters diagnostic and treatment recommendations resulting from a secondary disability). (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bias, Biological Influences, Case Studies, Deafness, Educational Diagnosis, Labeling (of Persons), Multiple Disabilities, Psychological Evaluation, School Psychologists, Student Evaluation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Diagnostic Overshadowing