HOUSTON A University of Houston researcher is launching a new study to examine how elementary schools across Texas and Florida identify specific learning disabilities in students, with the goal of ...

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) Board of Education has been over-identifying minority students as having learning disabilities prompting approval of a new plan that identifies ...

Replicated analyses of nationally representative samples now find that students of color are less likely to be identified as having disabilities than similarly situated students who are White.

The prevalence of childhood disability ranged between 11.1% and 23.0% depending on the identification strategy used, with only a small proportion of children identified by using four different ...

Not all children learn at the same speed or through the same ways, but persistent challenges with reading, writing, and mathematics may warrant testing for a learning disability. Learning disabilities ...