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Johnson, Evelyn S.; Semmelroth, Carrie; Mellard, Daryl F.; Hopper, Gina – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2012
The Idaho State Department of Education (SDE) recently revised its SLD identification policy to include a requirement to document a student's response to intervention coupled with a comprehensive evaluation. To implement this policy, the SDE is using multiple implementation drivers. In this article, we describe how and why the new policy was…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Response to Intervention, State Programs, Evaluation
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Dunn, Michael W. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2007
There is growing evidence that the current method of identifying students with a learning disability (LD) is ineffective. The wait-to-fail model of assessing students after second/third grade as well as conceptual problems in using intelligence tests for identification result in students not receiving the assistance they need during the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Grade 5, Grade 3
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Troia, Gary A. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2003
A proximal cause of reading disabilities is a deficit in phonological processing. A consequence of this deficit is inferior performance in one or more cognitive operations that use phonological information, including phonological awareness, lexical retrieval, and verbal memory. Some assert that these phonological processing difficulties are the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments, Reading Achievement