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• Assessment & Instruction of Reading and Writing Disability: An Interactive Approach. Second Edition
  This text, like the earlier edition, is based on an interactive view of ability and disability. It differs from the previous edition in its focus on reading and writing together as integral dimensions of literacy.
• Assessment of Students with Learning Disabilities: Current Issues and Future Directions
  Current issues in the assessment of students with learning disabilities are identified, including use of physiological and neuropsychological measures, discrepancy criteria, curriculum-based measurement, dynamic assessment, performance and portfolio assessment, and assessment of learning disabilities in bilingual and multicultural contexts. (Author/DB).
• Children who qualify for LD and SED programs: Do they differ in level of ADHD symptoms and comorbid psychiatric conditions?
  A study investigated whether children enrolled in programs for learning disabilities (LD) or serious emotional disturbance (SED) differed in levels of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and comorbid psychiatric conditions. Data were obtained from students in grades 2-4 who qualified for exceptional student education services for LD or SED in a medium-sized school district in Florida.
• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning: An Introductory Packet. Corp Author(s): California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Mental Health in Schools
  This introductory packet provides information on cultural concerns that should be considered in addressing barriers to student learning.
• Distinguishing Language Differences from Language Disorders in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students
  Describes a methodology that educators can use to appropriately classify students who are linguistically and culturally diverse. The article lists the student behaviors to observe when distinguishing a language difference from a language disorder and illustrates how educators can conceptualize student background and current status in selecting various alternatives in special education.
• Issues in Educating Students with Disabilities. The LEA Series on Special Education and Disability
  This book is designed to reaffirm the value of special instruction and to provide information on current research and practice which shows productive and successful outcomes.
• Issues in Educating Students with Disabilities. The LEA Series on Special Education and Disability
  This book is designed to reaffirm the value of special instruction and to provide information on current research and practice which shows productive and successful outcomes. It addresses the definition of disabilities, the assessment of disabilities, instruction, special populations, special education legislation and policy, and integration.
• Learning Disabilities Emperical Research on Ethnic Minority Students: An Analysis of 22 Years of Studies Published in Selected Refereed Journals
  CEC-DR’s Diversity Committee supports a broad view of scientific research in education that emphasizes the importance of using a broad range of methodological approaches and studying context as a way to increase our understandings of complex phenomena.
• Let's Play Mancala and Sungka! Learning Math and Social Skills through Ancient Multicultural Games
  This article describes how teachers can use two African and Asian games (Mancala and Sungka) to help students with learning disabilities succeed in school. It discusses the history of the games, how to play, the benefits of the games for children with disabilities, and choosing which game to use.
• Rethinking Preservice and Inservice Training Programs for Teachers in the Learning Disabilities Field: Workable Multicultural Models. Special Issue
  This paper discusses the need to rethink preservice and inservice training programs for general and special educators who teach culturally diverse students with learning disabilities. An overview identifies problems associated with traditional preservice and inservice training programs, such as Eurocentric teacher education programs and low teacher expectations of minority students.
• Rethinking Preservice Preparation for Teachers in the Learning Disabilities Field: Workable Multicultural Strategies
  Discusses problems and controversies associated with preservice teacher education curricular reform, teacher preparation programs and the learning disabilities field, and restructuring teacher preparation programs to prepare teachers to work with culturally diverse students with learning disabilities. Recruitment and retention of culturally diverse students and personnel is emphasized.
• The Inclusive Classroom: Mathematics and Science Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities. It's Just Good Teaching
  The first in a series of guides on the inclusive classroom that offers teachers research-based instructional strategies with real-life examples from Northwest classrooms, this publication focuses on the educational needs of students with learning disabilities in inclusive classrooms. It highlights methods for teaching mathematics and science, and suggests ways to foster collaborative relationships with special education teachers and families of students with learning disabilities.
• The Inclusive Classroom: Mathematics and Science Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities. It's Just Good Teaching
  The first in a series of guides on the inclusive classroom that offers teachers research-based instructional strategies with real-life examples from Northwest classrooms, this publication focuses on the educational needs of students with learning disabilities in inclusive classrooms.