Implications of the Helping Relationship between Learning Disabled Students and their Teachers

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Academic Growth ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Real Effects ◽  
Helping Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Significant Factors

Asking for and providing help is a critical issue in the relationship between the learning disabled student and the learning disabilities teacher. The usual concerns of demonstrating academic growth often overshadow some of the subtle, yet very real, effects of the relationship between the LD student and the LD teacher. Dyer discusses some highly significant factors that the LD teacher should be aware of when help is provided to the LD student. It is suggested that LD teachers have a responsibility to monitor their involvement with the LD student so as to develop a relationship that facilitates, rather than impedes, the student's overall growth and development.

Learning Disabilities and the Professional Educator

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Professional Educator

Dr. Stephen Larsen, President of D.C.L.D., has identified four central issues in the learning disability field as they relate to the educator: 1) determining the true parameters of the learning disabilities field; 2) monitoring the proliferation of tests and materials presumed relevant to educational practice; 3) insuring that learning disabled students are provided instructional opportunities in accordance with their educational needs and civil rights; and 4) determining professional standards that are necessary for competent and ethical practice. The professional educator is seen as the central person in the resolution of these issues as well as the central professional in planning, conducting, and/or coordinating the overall diagnostic and remedial efforts used with the learning disabled individual.

The Relationship between Creativity and Selective Attention in LD Boys

1979 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara G. Tarver ◽  
Barbara R. Buss ◽  
Ronald P. Maggiore
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
The Relationship

Historically, most programming and research efforts in the field of learning disabilities have focused on the disabilities evidenced by LD children and youth. By representing an attempt to consider the positive attributes of LD individuals, the study of creativity in the learning disabled population takes on special significance. The results of this investigation support the relationship between selective attention and creativity in LD boys. However, it was found that the relationship changed as a function of age and the type of creativity measured. The issues raised by this line of inquiry should provide impetus for other investigations designed to explore such attributes as creativity in learning disabled children and youth.

Strategy Training: A Need for Clarification

1987 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie U. deBettencourt
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Strategy Training ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Training Interventions ◽  
Precise Understanding

On the basis of research in the field of learning disabilities it has been concluded that many learning disabled students can be characterized as strategy-deficient, inactive learners. However, a precise understanding of strategy training procedures is frequently obscured by researchers. The term “strategy training” needs to be defined more clearly so that the approaches are understood more universally. In this article I discuss the rationale for strategy training interventions with learning disabled children, describe three approaches that are currently being studied in the field, and discuss the issues that arise.

Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities on Validity Indexes of the Perception of Ability Scale for Students

1992 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Chapman ◽  
Frederic J. Boersma
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Regular Form ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Normally Achieving ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Response Biases

The present study examined the performance of 78 students with learning disabilities and 71 normally achieving students in regular Form 1 (Grade 6) classes on three validity indexes of the Perception of Ability Scale for Students, a measure of academic self-concept. The three indexes assess consistency of responding, negative or positive response biases, and misrepresentation of self-perceptions in terms of unrealistic perceptions of perfection in school. Analysis showed that learning disabled students obtained significantly lower Full Scale scores than the normal students, but no significant differences appeared on the three validity indexes. Users of the test can be confident that learning disabled students respond to items in as valid a manner as other students. Having specific learning problems in school should not interfere with response patterns on this scale.

Intra-Individual Discrepancy in Diagnosing Specific Learning Disabilities

1980 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda E. O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Specific Learning Disabilities ◽  
Behaviorally Disordered ◽  
Level Of Functioning ◽  
Physically Handicapped ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Strength Of Association ◽  
Behavior Disordered ◽  
Specific Learning

The relationship between intra-individual discrepancy and exceptionality is studied in 248 children from grades one through six. Categories of exceptionality include children classified as: gifted/creative; sensorily impaired; behavior disordered; physically handicapped; mentally retarded; and learning disabled. The discrepancy between a child's expected level of functioning and actual level of functioning is computed by nine formulae commonly used in the field of special education. The study revealed a highly statistically significant relationship between discrepancies and exceptionalities, though a relatively low strength of association was found. The results also indicate that the intra-individual discrepancy is questionable when used as the defining characteristic of special learning disabilities; such a discrepancy is equally likely to occur in children classified as sensorily disordered, behaviorally disordered, and learning disabled.

Teaching Mathematics to Learning Disabled Students in the Secondary Classroom

1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (9) ◽  
pp. 702-747
Author(s):  
Grace M. Burton ◽  
Marcee J. Meyers
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
High School Mathematics ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
The Past ◽  
Secondary Classroom ◽  
Regular Classes

Professionals in the field of learning disabilities have made tremendous advances in the past twenty years in research, methodology, diagnosis, and programs. Until very recently (Johnston 1984), much of this progress has focused on the young learning disabled child (Kaliski 1962; Homan 1970) and on the curricular area of language arts. Although learning disabled (LD) students are indeed enrolled in middle school and high school mathematics classes, limited attention has been paid to their difficulties and special needs, and even less information is available addressing the concerns of their mathematics teachers. Because of mainstreaming, most LD students will probably remain in the regular classes for prealgebra, algebra, and geometry.

Labels, Literacy, and Enabling Learning: Glenn's Story

1992 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Fairbanks
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
School System ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
School Life ◽  
Dynamic Learning ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
School History ◽  
Conventional Manner

Too often, the school system regards students who do not learn quickly enough or in a conventional manner as "deficient," and labels them in ways that keep them from joining in a dynamic learning process. In this powerful account of what a creative and trusting relationship between teacher and student can accomplish, Colleen Fairbanks tells of a young man's determination to overcome his "learning disabilities"label and of the consequences the labeling process had on his school life. In so doing,her own story emerges as a teacher who encourages him to explore his feelings about his learning as he struggles to confront his school history. Most important, Glenn's story illustrates an overwhelming need to reevaluate our educational practices for learning disabled students.

Teaching Secondary Learning Disabled Students to the Mainstream

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa E. Laurie ◽  
Lorie Buchwach ◽  
Rita Silverman ◽  
Naomi Zigmond
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Classroom Teacher ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Regular Classroom ◽  
Educational Programming ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Regular Educators ◽  
Regular Class ◽  
Cooperative Planning

Without effective cooperative planning between the learning disabilities teacher and the regular classroom teacher, the probability of successfully mainstreaming an LD adolescent into the regular classroom is greatly reduced. Cooperative planning is an educational programming and monitoring arrangement between special and regular educators on behalf of LD students. This article presents the thesis that a major part of the learning disabilities teacher's role is to assist the mainstream teacher in developing and implementing instructional alternatives. The authors delineate prerequisites for bringing about educational change in the mainstream and specify a sequence of steps for systematically creating change in the regular class on behalf of LD adolescents.

Autistic traits in adults with learning disabilities

1997 ◽  
Vol 170 (6) ◽  
pp. 502-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabyasachi Bhaumik ◽  
David Branford ◽  
Catherine McGrother ◽  
Catherine Thorp
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Autistic Traits ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Adults With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Maladaptive Behaviours ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Challenging Behaviours ◽  
The Relationship

BackgroundAlthough many adults with learning disabilities show features of autistic syndrome, there have been very few population-based studies. We explored the prevalence of autistic traits and their association with maladaptive behaviours in a geographically defined population of adults with learning disabilities.MethodThe carers of 220l adults with learning disabilities were interviewed, and information was sought concerning aspects of their behaviour and ability. Individuals were scored according to the number of core autistic traits displayed. The prevalence of autistic traits was examined in respect of aspects of behaviour and ability.ResultsAutistic traits were common among adults with learning disabilities. Those with a higher number of autistic traits were more likely to be profoundly learning disabled and demonstrate awide range of challenging behaviours.ConclusionsMany adults with learning disabilities demonstrate autistic traits. The relationship of autistic traits with challenging behaviour has major implications in service planning and delivery.

Marker Variables: A Search for Comparability and Generalizability in the Field of Learning Disabilities

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara K. Keogh ◽  
Susan M. Major ◽  
Helen Patricia Reid ◽  
Patricia Gándara ◽  
Hisako Omori
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Cooperative Approach ◽  
Program Effects ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Marker Variables

The learning disability field has been plagued by unclear definitional criteria resulting in inconsistencies and confusion regarding research findings and program effects. The concept of marker variables as presented by Keogh et al. may be a means of guiding research and comparing research results. Marker variables may be thought of as a set of core variables which are collected in common by those conducting research within a given field. The identification and adoption of a systematic, cooperative approach to the documentation of research and intervention with learning disabled students would aid in the comparability and generalizability of the findings. This article discusses the concept of marker variables as they are being applied to the learning disability field in the UCLA Marker Variable Project.

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