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Bailey, Simon; Thomson, Pat – Ethnography and Education, 2009
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is popularly understood to be a condition which resides in the person. In this scenario, the school is an innocent bystander, a container for the "maladjusted child". Drawing on an ethnographic case study of one classroom, the first stage of doctoral research into the production of the…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Disability Identification, Student Behavior, Clinical Diagnosis
Montani, Teresa Oettinger; Frawley, Patricia; Smith, Lisa F. – Diagnostique, 2000
A comparison of the reading performance of 30 second-graders with learning disabilities and 30 controls found all but three of 10 subtests of the Woodcock Diagnostic Reading Battery produced significant differences between groups. The three subtests that did not reach significance were Oral Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, and Memory for…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests, Disability Identification, Elementary Education
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Cluett, Sandra E.; Forness, Steven R.; Ramey, Sharon L.; Ramey, Craig T.; Hsu, Chuanchieh; And Others – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 1998
A study investigated the effect of different diagnostic criteria on the identification of emotional or behavioral disorders in 3694 second-grade children. Results indicated the 13 different diagnostic combinations identified from 1.1% to 27.5% of the sample. Four of these combinations resulted in significant ethnic or gender bias. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Emotional Disturbances