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- Title
Historical and Current Perspectives on Learning Disabilities in the United States.
- Authors
Cullen Pullen, Paige
- Abstract
Learning disabilities is the most common type of disability accounting for approximately 50% of all students receiving special education in the United States. As a field, the area of learning disabilities has evolved from its early days when Sam Kirk coined the term for learning disabilities at a parent meeting. Since that time, controversy has surrounded the field in terms of the name, etiology, and identification. The purpose of this paper is to look at the field of disabilities in the United States from a historical perspective. I address historical issues as well as contemporary issues in the way individuals are identified and provided services from childhood through adulthood.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEARNING disabilities; LEARNING disabilities research; SCHOOL failure; SPECIAL education; UNITED States education system
- Publication
Learning Disabilities - A Contemporary Journal, 2016, Vol 14, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
1937-6928
- Publication type
Article