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Goegan, Lauren D.; Harrison, Gina L. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2017
The effects of extended time on the writing performance of university students with learning disabilities (LD) was examined. Thirty-eight students (19 LD; 19 non-LD) completed a collection of cognitive, linguistic, and literacy measures, and wrote essays under regular and extended time conditions. Limited evidence was found to support the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Testing Accommodations, Learning Disabilities
Weis, Robert; Erickson, Celeste P.; Till, Christina H. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Adolescents with learning disabilities disproportionately come from lower socioeconomic status backgrounds, show normative deficits in academic skills, and attend 2-year, public colleges instead of 4-year institutions. However, students with learning disabilities are well represented at the United States' most expensive and selective postsecondary…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Selective Admission, Private Colleges, Socioeconomic Status
De La Paz, Susan; Wissinger, Daniel R. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2015
Historians use a range of genres in presenting their subjects, yet educators have increasingly privileged argumentation to help novices to reason with historical content. However, the influence genre and content knowledge are relatively unmeasured in this discipline. To learn more, the authors asked 101 eleventh-grade students to compose an…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, High School Students, History, Persuasive Discourse
Rubenstein, Lisa DaVia; Schelling, Natalie; Wilczynski, Susan M.; Hooks, Elizabeth N. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
The purpose of this phenomenological, qualitative study was to illuminate the lived, shared experiences of parents of gifted children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Thirteen parents were interviewed and the interviews were transcribed and qualitatively analyzed. This article specifically examines the parents' experiences navigating the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interviews, Educational Environment
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Slate, John R. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1997
Differences between and interrelationships among reading and math achievement test scores for 269 students with learning disabilities were investigated to determine whether previous findings were replicable. Findings supported previous research that showed different achievement tests purporting to measure the same construct did not provide…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education