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| SLD Identification Overview: General Information and Tools to Get Started | This brochure describes the history of the learning disabilities field, challenges of SLD determination, and factors to consider in developing solutions to these problems. Contains activities to help members of school staffs identify values and priorities. | 2007 | |
| Getting Started with SLD Determination: After IDEA Reauthorization | This guide presents information and activities to help educators work through the many issues associated with developing SLD identification policies and procedures. Authors: Evelyn Johnson and Daryl F. Mellard | 2007 | WEB (Individual sections: DOC, PDF) |
| Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention | This collection of tools and information helps educators navigate changes related to SLD determination and RTI. | 2007 | WEB (Individual sections: PDF, PPT) |
| National SEA Conference on SLD Determination: Integrating RTI within the SLD Determination Process | This conference brought together top researchers and education practitioners to explore implications of changes in IDEA 2004. Site includes video, pdf, and web resources. | 2006 | WEB (Individual sections: WEB, PDF, VIDEO) |
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| A Research-Based View of Specific Learning Disabilities: Implementing Change | This presentation draws on research to address challenges and issues associated with large-scale change. | 2007 | PDF (Handouts) PPT (Presentation) |
| SLD Identification: What We Know...What We Don't Know | This presentation reviews SLD history and provisions of IDEA 2004 (Council for Exceptional Children). Presenter: Daryl Mellard |
2006 | |
| LD Roundtable's Role in the Formulation of Policy | This presentation focuses on the history of learning disabilities. (Council for Exceptional Children). Presenter: Mary Beth Klotz |
2006 | PDF (Presentation) (Reference List) |
| The Scaling of Innovations: Factors to Consider Beyond Professional Development | This presentation reviews processes necessary for successful large-scale change, from understanding the challenge to the elements to consider in devising solutions. (International Dyslexia Association) Presenter: Don Deshler |
2004 | PPT |
| Presidential Commission on Excellence in Special Education Report: "A New Era: Revitalizing Special Education for Children and Their Families" | This brief describes the 2001 creation of and charge to the Commission on Excellence in Special Education. | 2002 | WEB |
| Finding Common Ground: Consensus Statements | This brief presents the consensus statements presented to OSEP in the report Specific Learning Disability: Finding Common Ground | 2002 | WEB |
| Researcher Consensus Statement | This brief lists the consensus statements developed by a group of researchers as a follow-up to the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. | 2002 | WEB |
| Twenty-Five Years of Progress in Educating Children with Disabilities through IDEA | This OSEP paper describes progress made toward meeting national goals for early intervention, special education, and related services. | 2002 | DOC WEB |
| Access to, Participation and Progress in the General Education Curriculum | This OSEP paper focuses on authorities' opinions regarding students' access to the general education curriculum. | 2002 | DOC WEB |
| The Impact of IDEA-Part D National Program Investments to Improve Special Education Practice | This OSEP paper describes benefits of IDEA Part D programs. | 2002 | DOC WEB |
| Standards-Based Reform and Students with Disabilities | This OSEP paper focuses on authorities' opinions regarding standards-based reform and students with disabilities. | 2002 | DOC WEB |
| Synthesis of Discussions about OSEP Review and Dissemination Process: Meeting Summary and Policy Recommendations | This OSEP paper summarizes deliberations of OSEP's Review and Dissemination Work Group meeting. | 2002 | DOC WEB |
| Synthesis of Discussions about Scaling Up Effective Practices: Meeting Summary and Policy Recommendations | This OSEP paper summarizes discussions of OSEP's Scaling Up Work Group meeting. | 2002 | DOC WEB |
| Learning Disabilities: Historical Perspectives | White paper presented during the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Authors: Daniel P. Hallahan and Cecil D. Mercer |
2001 | DOC WEB |
| Specific Learning Disabilities: Building Consensus for Identification and Classification | Conclusion and summary of lessons learned during the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Authors: Renee Bradley, Louis Danielson, and Daniel P. Hallahan. |
2001 | DOC WEB |
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| SLD Determination Research | |||
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| Student Poster: School Psychologists' Perspectives on LD Determination Practices and Student Characteristics | National Association of School Psychologists. Presenters: Kim Grant, Scott Showalter, Daryl Mellard, Sonja de Boer, and Barbara Starrett |
2006 | PDF (Poster) PDF (Handout) |
| And Miles to Go...State SLD Requirements and Authoritative Recommendations | This paper analyzes state SLD requirements in relation to proposed changes in SLD classification criteria. Authors: Daniel J. Reschly, John L. Hosp, and Catherine M. Schmied |
2003 | DOC WEB |
| Is "Learning Disabilities" Just a Fancy Term for Low Achievement? A Meta-Analysis of Reading Differences Between Low Achievers with and without the Label | White paper presented during the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Authors: Douglas Fuchs, Lynn S. Fuchs, Patricia G. Mathes, Mark W. Lipsey, and P. Holley Roberts |
2001 | DOC WEB |
| Classification of Learning Disabilities: An Evidence-Based Evaluation | White paper presented during the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Authors: Jack M Fletcher, G. Reid Lyon, Marcia Barnes, Karla K. Stuebing, David J. Francis, Richard K. Olson, Sally E. Shaywitz, and Bennett A. Shaywitz |
2001 | DOC WEB |
| Early Identification and Intervention for Young Children with Reading/Learning Disabilities | White paper presented during the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Authors: Joseph. R. Jenkins and Rollanda E. O'Connor |
2001 | DOC WEB |
| Discrepancy Models in the Identification of Learning Disability | White paper presented during the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Author: Kenneth A. Kavale |
2001 | DOC WEB |
| Learning Disabilities as Operationally Defined by Schools | White paper presented during the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Authors: Donald L. MacMillan and Gary N. Siperstein |
2001 | DOC WEB |
| Empirical and Theoretical Support for Direct Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities by Assessment of Intrinsic Processing Weaknesses | White paper presented during the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Author: Joseph K. Torgesen | 2001 | DOC WEB |
| Clinical Judgments in Identifying and Teaching Children with Language-Based Reading Difficulties | White paper presented during the Learning Disabilities Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future. Authors: Barbara W. Wise and Lynn Snyder |
2001 | DOC WEB |
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Funding for NRCLD is provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special
Education Programs. Award No. H324U010004. Opinions expressed herein are those of the National
Research Center on Learning Disabilities and do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S.
Department of Education.
© 2007 National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
Last Updated: November 19, 2007
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