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Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsLearning Disabilities

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and... score equal to or below the 25th percentile capture two high-incidence disorders within LD: reading disabilities and math disabilities. Children and adults classified as learning disabled (LD) In terms of reading disabilities, Siegel (1989, 2003) are those individuals who are of normal intelligence but argues that fundamental to evaluating reading disabili- suffer mental information processing difficulties. Several ties is a focus on word recognition measures, because they definitions refer to LD as reflecting a heterogeneous group capture more basic cognitive processes and responses than of individuals with intrinsic disorders that are mani- reading comprehension. Her research shows that difficul- fested by specific difficulties in the acquisition and use of ties in phonological processing are fundamental problems listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathe- for children with reading disabilities, and this problem matical abilities (Hammill, 1990). Most definitions assume continues into adulthood. She also indicates that there is that the learning difficulties of such individuals are: no evidence to suggest that development of decoding skills is a result of a specific instruction in grapheme-phoneme 1. Not due to inadequate opportunity to learn, to gen- conversion rules. Her work and the work of others find eral intelligence, or to significant physical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsLearning Disabilities

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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
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9781118660584
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10.1002/9781118660584.ese1383
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score equal to or below the 25th percentile capture two high-incidence disorders within LD: reading disabilities and math disabilities. Children and adults classified as learning disabled (LD) In terms of reading disabilities, Siegel (1989, 2003) are those individuals who are of normal intelligence but argues that fundamental to evaluating reading disabili- suffer mental information processing difficulties. Several ties is a focus on word recognition measures, because they definitions refer to LD as reflecting a heterogeneous group capture more basic cognitive processes and responses than of individuals with intrinsic disorders that are mani- reading comprehension. Her research shows that difficul- fested by specific difficulties in the acquisition and use of ties in phonological processing are fundamental problems listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathe- for children with reading disabilities, and this problem matical abilities (Hammill, 1990). Most definitions assume continues into adulthood. She also indicates that there is that the learning difficulties of such individuals are: no evidence to suggest that development of decoding skills is a result of a specific instruction in grapheme-phoneme 1. Not due to inadequate opportunity to learn, to gen- conversion rules. Her work and the work of others find eral intelligence, or to significant physical

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