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Download full textTsai, Luke Y. – 1998
This briefing paper is intended to provide basic information about the diagnosis, educational programming, and special needs of children and youth with Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), a group of neurological disorders usually evident by age 3 and characterized by impairments in social interaction, imaginative activity, and verbal and…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
Reschly, Daniel J. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1988
The article examines issues concerning mild mental retardation (MMR) classification and programing including placement bias litigation, MMR diagnostic construct and classification criteria, general intellectual functioning, adaptive behavior, sociocultural status, pseudo reforms through changes in assessment, the Learning Potential Assessment…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Court Litigation
Long, Greg; Clark, David Anthony – 1993
This paper addresses issues in the definition of traditionally underserved persons who are deaf. It notes that these people have traditionally been labeled as low functioning, low achieving, multiply handicapped, minimal language skilled, and disadvantaged. A new definition, developed by the Northern Illinois University Research and Training…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Skills
Muskat, Lori R.; Redefer, Laurel A. – 1996
This paper addresses the dilemma faced by the requirement that educators provide appropriate and effective education for higher functioning students with autism, while lacking the necessary knowledge to provide such interventions. The first section discusses the diagnosis of autism (especially noting the presence of a "triad" of deficits…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis
FRIERSON, EDWARD C., ED.; BARBE, WALTER B., ED. – 1967
INTENDED FOR GENERAL EDUCATORS WAS WELL AS SPECIALISTS, THE COLLECTION CONTAINS SELECTED ARTICLES BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS ON LEARNING DISABILITIES. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD IS PROVIDED BY AN OVERVIEW (FIVE ARTICLES) AND A CONSIDERATION OF BRAIN DYSFUNCTIONS (FOUR ARTICLES). SPECIALIZED APPROACHES TO LEARNING DISORDERS ARE EXPLAINED FROM THE…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Behavior, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis
