Boom in Learning-Disabled Enrollments Ends

Autor/in	Samuels, Christina A.
Titel	Boom in Learning-Disabled Enrollments Ends
Quelle	In: Education Week, 30 (2010) 3, S.1 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Early Intervention; Learning Disabilities; Reading Instruction; Enrollment; Special Education; Federal Legislation; Cognitive Ability; Mental Retardation; Reading Achievement; Educational Improvement; Elementary Schools; Accountability; Reading Difficulties + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; Leseunterricht; Einschulung; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Bundesrecht; Denkfähigkeit; Geistige Behinderung; Leseleistung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Verantwortung; Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit
Abstract	After decades of what seemed to be an inexorable upward path, the number of students classified as learning-disabled declined from year to year over much of the past decade--a change in direction that is spurring debates among experts about the reasons why. The percentage of 3- to 21-year-old students nationwide classified as having a "specific learning disability" dropped steadily from 6.1 percent in the 2000-01 school year to 5.2 percent in 2007-08, according to the most recent data available, which come from the U.S Department of Education's 2009 Digest of Education Statistics. The decrease in the category goes hand in hand with a decrease in special education enrollment overall, though that change is not as large. Scholars say the dropping numbers could be linked to improvements in reading instruction overall; th adoption of "response to intervention," which is an instructional model intended to halt the emergence of reading problems; and a federally backed push toward early intervention with younger students before they're labeled. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10