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Reid, D. Kim – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2001
Comments on the two previous articles (EC 628 520-521) support the studies' explorations of how at-risk students' and teachers' thinking help define the educational environment; raise questions about the possible complicating of unreported factors of race, class, and gender; and suggest that qualitative studies are needed to complement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
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Zera, David Aloyzy; Lucian, David G. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2001
This article uses a self-organizing systems (SOS) framework to explain the complexity of learning disabilities (LD) and suggest that traditional classification schema may be inadequate. It explains principles of self-organizing systems and reviews research concerning reading and math disabilities and the roles of language, attention, working…
Descriptors: Attention, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
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Berninger, Virginia Wise – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2001
The introduction to this special issue on nature-nurture interactions notes that the following articles represent five biologically oriented research approaches which each provide a tutorial on the investigator's major research tool, a summary of current research understandings regarding language and learning differences, and a discussion of…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Children, Environmental Influences
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Raskind, Wendy H. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2001
This article considers the complications met by behavioral and biological studies of dyslexia by the condition's phenotypic heterogeneity and lack of uniformly applied diagnostic criteria. It notes the increasingly powerful genetic technologies and statistical methodologies used to identify genomic locations for genes involved in this complex…
Descriptors: Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Dyslexia, Genetics
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Booth, James R.; Burman, Douglas D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2001
This article first outlines a tentative neurocognitive model of oral language and reading. It then reviews recent functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of the development of oral language and reading and brain-imaging research on dyslexia in light of the proposed neurocognitive model. Finally, research on the plasticity of neural systems…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Language Acquisition
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Mellard, Daryl F.; Deshler, Donald D.; Barth, Amy – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2004
Historically, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners have sought improved solutions to the issues associated with LD identification decisions. Since the passage of P.L. 94-142, numerous identification methods has been proposed, implemented, and studied. While each new method has been successful, at least partially, in addressing some of the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Eligibility, Decision Making, Special Education
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