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ERIC Number: EJ169962
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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Learning Disabilities: Time to Check Our Roadmaps?
Ames, Louise Bates
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 10, 6, 328-30, Jun/Jul 77
The author points out two problems with the field of learning disabilities: the term caught on before a satisfactory definition had been determined and the field totally disregards the Law of Parsimony, which requires that one should never give a complicated answer when a simple one will do. (SBH)
Descriptors: Classification, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Underachievement
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