Currently, learning disabilities (LD) are diagnosed on the basis of the discrepancy between students' IQ and reading achievement scores. Students diagnosed with LD often receive remedial instruction in resource rooms. The available evidence suggests that the educational policy based on this discrepancy model has not yielded satisfactory results. This has led researchers to try other paradigms, ...

conclusions: these findings demonstrated that cognitive failure and alexithymia had important roles in strengthening and appearance of high-risk behaviors in students with learning disabilities. therefore, considering those problems, precautionary actions might be necessary. results: the results showed that high-risk behaviors had significant positive correlations with difficulty identifying fe...

Background & objectives: Parents of children with learning disorders experience more negative emotions than parents of normal children, therefore, they require attention and receiving psychological interventions.  This study made an effort to reduce the psychological problems of these mothers. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of self-compassion training on the shame an...

BACKGROUND Although many adults with learning disabilities show features of autistic syndrome, there have been very few population-based studies. We explored the prevalence of autistic traits and their association with maladaptive behaviours in a geographically defined population of adults with learning disabilities. METHOD The carers of 2201 adults with learning disabilities were interviewed...

In this article, we review problems in identification of learning disabilities and consider proposed alternatives to present procedures. We argue that no proposed alternative meets all the necessary criteria for identification of learning disabilities, and that radically altering or eliminating current conceptualizations of learning disabilities may amount to “throwing the baby out with the bat...

Impetus for action To conduct a user-friendly questionnaire survey of the oral health and service needs of adults with learning disabilities. Solution Researchers collaborated with local self-advocacy services to develop a questionnaire adapted from one used in a regional postal survey. The questionnaire, which covered dental status, oral health and dental services use, was sent to a random s...

With the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 2004, Response to Intervention (RTI) was officially introduced. Unlike the discrepancy model, which determines eligibility in special education with a discrepancy between achievement and ability, RTI was designed to provide intensive instruction to students in the general classroom as soon as difficulties in acquirin...