Validity of alternative approaches for the identification of learning disabilities: Operationalizing unexpected underachievement

JM Fletcher, C Denton… - Journal of Learning …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reviews the validity of models based on (a) aptitude—achievement
discrepancies,(b) low achievement,(c) intraindividual differences, and (d) response to …

Evidence-based assessment of learning disabilities in children and adolescents

JM Fletcher, DJ Francis, RD Morris… - Journal of Clinical Child …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
The reliability and validity of 4 approaches to the assessment of children and adolescents
with learning disabilities (LD) are reviewed, including models based on (a) aptitude …

Learning, attention, writing, and processing speed in typical children and children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, and oppositional-defiant disorder

SD Mayes, SL Calhoun - Child Neuropsychology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Learning, attention, graphomotor, and processing speed scores were analyzed in 149
typical control children and 886 clinical children with normal intelligence. Nonsignificant …

Frequency of reading, math, and writing disabilities in children with clinical disorders

SD Mayes, SL Calhoun - Learning and individual Differences, 2006 - Elsevier
Learning disabilities (LD) are common in clinical disorders, but no study has compared the
relative prevalence in referred children with different diagnoses. Our sample comprised 949 …

Processing speed in children with clinical disorders

SL Calhoun, SD Mayes - Psychology in the Schools, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Processing Speed Index (PSI) was first introduced on the Wechsler Intelligence
Scale, Third Edition (WISC‐III; D. Wechsler, 1991), and little is known about its clinical …

The future of a mistake: Will discrepancy measurement continue to make the learning disabilities field a pseudoscience?

KE Stanovich - Learning Disability Quarterly, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past two decades I have written several articles about assessment procedures in
the field of learning disabilities (LD)(Stanovich, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1999a …

Effect of a computer-delivered math fact intervention as a supplemental intervention for math in third and fourth grades

MK Burns, R Kanive… - Remedial and Special …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The current study reviews a computer-based math fluency intervention with 216 third-and
fourth-grade students who were at risk for math difficulties. The intervention used a computer …

Memory functioning in children with reading disabilities and/or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a clinical investigation of their working memory and long-term …

MY Kibby, MJ Cohen - Child Neuropsychology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
We examined memory functioning in children with reading disabilities (RD), Attention
deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and RD/ADHD using a clinic sample with a clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Computer-assisted word reading intervention effects throughout the primary grades: A meta-analysis

L Verhoeven, M Voeten, E Segers - Educational Research Review, 2022 - Elsevier
This meta-analysis focused on the effects of computer-supported word reading interventions
(foundational reading instruction, supplementary alphabetics, reading fluency, remedial …

Working memory in children with learning disabilities: Rethinking the criterion of discrepancy

C Maehler, K Schuchardt - International journal of disability …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The criterion of discrepancy is used to distinguish children with learning disorders from
children with intellectual disabilities. The justification of the criterion of discrepancy for the …