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A academic journal that provides insight for professionals involved in the field of learning disabilities. Features in-depth coverage of specific issues in the field of learning disabilities, theoretical papers, research articles, overviews of interventio

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Academic underachievement among children with epilepsy: proportion exceeding psychometric criteria for learning disability and associated risk factors.(Report)
May 1, 2008... One percent of children will develop epilepsy by 20 years of age (Hauser, 1994). Children with epilepsy are at greater risk for academic difficulties compared to healthy children and compared to those with many other chronic illnesses of childhood (Austin, Huberty, Huster, & Dunn, 1998;...

Is there an increased familial prevalence of psychopathology in children with nonverbal learning disorders?(Report)
May 1, 2008... Learning disabilities (LD) occur in approximately 5% of school-age children (Lyon, 1996), and two major subtypes of LD have been described: children with reading disorders (RD) and children with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD; Drummond, Ahmad, & Rourke, 2005). Compared to RD, far less...

Identifying and predicting classes of response to explicit phonological spelling instruction during independent composing.(Report)
May 1, 2008... Origin and Significance of Response to Instruction In 1993, National Institutes of Health sponsored a working conference for researchers in the field of learning disabilities at which the concept of response to instruction was introduced (Lyon, 1994). Francis, Fletcher, Stuebing,...

Rapid serial naming is a unique predictor of spelling in children.(Report)
May 1, 2008... A great deal of research shows that average reading L ability and below-average reading ability are best predicted by the somewhat independent effects of phonologically based decoding and rapid naming (Compton, DeFries, & Olson, 2001; Cornwall, 1992; Kirby, Parilla, & Pfeiffer, 2003; Savage...

Working memory and learning in children with developmental coordination disorder and specific language impairment.(Report)
May 1, 2008... The extent to which deficits in specific cognitive mechanisms may underlie developmental disorders is a matter of considerable interest in the fields of cognition and cognitive development. The functioning of the working memory system has been implicated in groups of children with marked...

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