Journal of Learning Disabilities articles from January 2008

Journal of Learning Disabilities archives from January 2008

Peer groups, popularity, and social preference: trajectories of social functioning among students with and without learning disabilities.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Peer relationships and popularity can have a positive impact on numerous areas of development, including social (Ladd, 2005) and emotional (Brendgen, Wanner, Morin, & Vitaro, 2005) functioning as well as academic motivation and school...

Computational skills, working memory, and conceptual knowledge in older children with mathematics learning disabilities.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Mathematics learning disabilities (MLD) or developmental dyscalculia is a cognitive disorder impairing the typical acquisition of arithmetic skills (Ardila & Rosselli, 2002). It is diagnosed when a child's mathematical achievement, as measured...

Mathematics learning disabilities in girls with fragile X or Turner syndrome during late elementary school.(Report)
January 1, 2008... The prevalence of mathematics learning disabilities (MLD) in the general population, which is approximately 6% to 7% (Badian, 1983; Gross-Tsur, Manor, & Shalev, 1996), is comparable to that of reading disabilities, and yet less attention has...

The varieties of pathways to dysfluent reading: comparing subtypes of children with dyslexia at letter, word, and connected text levels of reading.(Report)
January 1, 2008... The double-deficit hypothesis (DDH) of dyslexia represents an evolving, theoretically driven approach to subtyping classification that incorporates two of the best studied characteristics of most readers with dyslexia--deficits in phonological...

Diagnosis and treatment of reading disabilities based on the component model of reading: an alternative to the discrepancy model of LD.(learning disabilities )(Report)
January 1, 2008... Nearly 38% of the children in U.S. fourth-grade classrooms have been identified as reading below the basic reading level (National Center for Education Statistics, 1998). A substantial number of these children have been identified as having...

Learning strategies and study approaches of postsecondary students with dyslexia.(Report)
January 1, 2008... Students with learning disabilities (LD) are entering postsecondary institutions in greater numbers today than in the past (Vogel et al., 1998). In the United States, Vogel et al. (1998) obtained information from 147 postsecondary institutions...