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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Children with Learning Disabilities"”.
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Value of Peer Tutoring For Children With Learning Disabilities
… following question: What kinds of gains will two children with learning disabilities make in their word recognition skills when both children are involved in a peer tutoring program? Purpose. The purpose of the study was to assess the value of same-age peer tutoring when both children are …
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The treatment of depression in children with learning disabilities.
… occur in cognitive functioning, both for children and adults. A great many children with LD evidence coexisting symptoms of depression, yet research is non-existent regarding the treatment of depression in special education populations and possible improvements in academic functioning. …
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Distinct Memory Profiles in Children with Learning Disabilities: a Neuropsychological Perspective
… of research has focused on memory dysfunction in children with learning disabilities. However, findings have been inconsistent which may be attributed to the limitations inherent in the approaches previously used in this area. Given the heterogeneous nature of learning disabilities, the current …
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Exclusion and Discrepancy as Criteria for Identifying Children With Learning Disabilities
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The effects of differentiated physical activity programmes on the motor proficiency of children with learning disabilities
With this study, the researcher investigated the effect of specially designed physical education programmes on the motor proficiency of learners with learning disabilities. The subjects (N=60) were aJ! learners from the Zululand Remedial School in Empangent, Kwa Zulu/Natal. Two experimental groups …
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Facilitating educational access for children with learning disabilities: The implementation of inclusive education in South Africa
Children with disabilities have long experienced barriers to equal education due to discrimination. When the United Nations declared education a fundamental human right for every child in 1948, UNESCO-led conferences began to endorse campaigns worldwide that encouraged governments to reform their …
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The comparability of the WISC-R and WISC-III in a group of children with learning disabilities.
… of the WISC-R and WISC-III in a group of children with learning disabilities. Children in the WISC-III group were tested with the WISC-III approximately 1 year following an initial evaluation with the WISC-R. Children in the WISC-R group were tested with the WISC-R twice over the same …
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An Investigation Into How Children With Learning Disabilities View Themselves as Compared to Their Regular Education Counterparts
The purpose of this study is to determine how children with special needs at the third grade level view themselves both academically and socially as compared to their regular education counterparts. In order to determine these views, 23 third grade students from a suburban western New York school …
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Educational staff's responses to challenging behaviour of children with learning disabilities: the impact of diagnosis and clinical research portfolio
… of a pupil’s diagnosis in addition to their learning disability on staff members’ responses. Materials and Methods This present study involved 102 special education staff who were asked to provide cognitive, emotional and behavioural responses to written vignettes of one of three conditions: …
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The Experiences and Perceptions of Five Elementary School Counselors: Providing Family Counseling to Families of Children with Learning Disabilities
… that has been effective in treating families of children with learning disabilities. Family counseling has been effective in many settings, but has not been explored as a school counselor intervention. This research is a qualitative study exploring school counselors' experiences and perceptions …
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"Putting together pieces of a puzzle”: the lived experiences of parent carers of children with learning disabilities attending mainstream education
… Increasing numbers of children with learning disabilities are attending mainstream education. Parent carers of children with learning disabilities have often been found to face marginalisation and struggle to have their voices heard. Research from the last three decades …
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A Case Study of the "Who is NOBODY?" Project: A Character Development Program for Children with Learning Disabilities
This research study explored a support system for children with learning disabilities. The Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara Region (LDANR) recently expanded its Better Emotional and Social Times (B.E.S.T.) program to incorporate an innovative, character education initiative called the …
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Differential Gain in Academic Achievement and Behavioral Adjustment of Children With Learning Disabilities Among Three Administrative Arrangements: Implications for the Evaluation of Pupil Progress
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Dental Care for Children with Learning Disabilities : A Systematic Review of Treatment Provision and a Prospective Study of the Hall Technique to Improve Treatment Delivery
Children with learning disabilities have worse health outcomes than their contemporaries without learning disabilities, even with respect to conditions not associated with their disability. In addition, ‘positive’ links between disability, socio-economic status and dental caries mean that children …
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Group treatment for the parents of children with learning-disabilities : as a means of changing the attitudes of parents towards such children, and the effect of such a change on the remediation of the learning disability
… was done on the attitudes of parents towards learning-disabled children and on the behaviour rating of the children by their parents (experiment A) and on group treatment for parents of learning-disabled children (experiment B). EXPERIMENT A The experimental group consisted of parents of 28 …
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Emerging approaches in the field of learning disabilities : a holistic model
… traditional and emerging models in the field of learning disabilities, to examine emerging methodological approaches and techniques, and then to propose a holistic model for the treatment and education of children with learning disabilities.
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Teachers’ knowledge of their learners’ psychological well-being at a special school In Uthungulu District
… system in South Africa (SA) was to ensure that children with learning disabilities and special needs are part of a full service, inclusive education system. In SA, special needs education can be traced back to the Apartheid during which learners were segregated on the basis of their race, …
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