EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

P96: Anxiety Problems in Students with Learning Disabilities

This paper provides an overview of the results of research related to anxiety disorders within the context of learning disabilities. About 8% of the student population in Iran suffers from learning disabilities (LD). Most of the criteria for anxiety disorders in ICD–10 or DSM–IV–TR can be applied reliably and validly in individuals with mild-to-moderate learning disabilities. Besides the clinic...

Attributions of the educational outcomes of students with learning disabilities in China

Are we exacerbating students' learning disabilities? an investigation of preservice teachers' attributions of the educational outcomes of students with learning disabilities.

While claims of the importance of attribution theory and teachers' expectations of students for student performance are repeatedly made, there is little comprehensive research identifying the perceptions preservice teachers have of students with learning disabilities (LD). Accordingly, 444 Australian preservice primary school teachers were surveyed using vignettes and Likert-scale questions, to...

Stigma of a label: educational expectations for high school students labeled with learning disabilities.

Poorer outcomes for youth labeled with learning disabilities (LDs) are often attributed to the student's own deficiencies or cumulative disadvantage; but the more troubling possibility is that special education placement limits rather than expands these students' opportunities. Labeling theory partially attributes the poorer outcomes of labeled persons to stigma related to labels. This study us...

Software Assistant for Students with Learning Disabilities

Social and professional integration of persons with disabilities is a major challenge faced by many communities. In particular, teaching or training such persons is a very demanding task. This paper presents details of the specification and design of a new software tool aimed at assisting the learning process of students with learning disabilities. Using a four-step problem solving strategy, th...