Evidence-informed practice for creating meaningful individual special education programs for diverse students with learn...
Published in Frontiers in Education
Evidence-informed practice for creating meaningful individual special education programs for diverse students with learn...
Reduced inhibition control ability in children with ADHD due to coexisting learning disorders: an fNIRS study
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Introduction Inhibition control, as the core component of executive function, might play a crucial role in the understanding of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and specific learning disorders (SLD). Inhibition control deficits have been observed in children with ADHD or SLD. This study sought to test in a multi-modal fashion (i.e., ...
Bullying Behaviors in Middle School Special Education Settings
Middle school students with learning disabilities face a higher risk of being targets of bullying compared to their peers without learning disabilities due to challenges in developing social skills. Bullying behaviors peak at the age of 14, potentially inflicting lasting psychological harm and endangering the student's well being into adulthood. Th...
Peer mentoring for students with learning disabilities: the importance of shared experience on students’ social and emot...
Published in Frontiers in Education
Students with Learning Disabilities (LDs) can experience classroom challenges that may negatively impact their social and emotional development, and these struggles can put them at risk for mental health issues and lower quality of life. Programs designed to support students with LDs need to consider not only academic skills and accommodations, but...
Exploring the effectiveness of a novel memory training program for students with learning disabilities in the United Ara...
Published in Frontiers in Education
Introduction The present research aims to investigate the efficacy of a newly developed memory training strategy on improving the memory capabilities of students with learning impairments. Methods Involving thirty male and female students with learning challenges, the study divided participants into experimental and control groups, with the former ...
Adults with learning difficulties in post-secondary education
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Supporting the contraceptive decision-making of adults with intellectual disabilities: A socio-legal examination
Historically, people with intellectual disabilities have been denied the right to make decisions about their own lives. Today, debates continue regarding how to conceptualise decision-making rights and how people with cognitive or psychosocial disabilities should be supported to exercise them. However, relatively little socio-legal research that dr...
Academic Achievement and Satisfaction Among University Students With Specific Learning Disabilities: The Roles of Soft S...
...Published in Journal of learning disabilities
Understanding the individual qualities sustaining students with and without specific learning disabilities (SLDs) is key to supporting their academic achievement and well-being. In this study, we investigated the differences between students with and without SLDs in terms of intraindividual factors (soft skills and study-related factors), academic ...
How appropriate are referral letters written by school principals to a learning disability clinic? A retrospective audit...
Published in Journal of postgraduate medicine
This retrospective study analyzed the quality of 1069 referral letters written by school principals to our learning disability clinic. Utilizing a self-devised checklist having four domains (with 26 items), the audit revealed that in only nine (34.6%) items, the necessary information was available in >90% of referral letters.
A Register Study Suggesting Homotypic and Heterotypic Comorbidity Among Individuals With Learning Disabilities.
Published in Journal of learning disabilities
The present study examined whether learning disabilities (LD) in reading and/or math (i.e., reading disability [RD], math disability [MD], and RD+MD) co-occur with other diagnoses. The data comprised a clinical sample (n = 430) with LD identified in childhood and a sample of matched controls (n = 2,140). Their medical diagnoses (according to the In...
