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K A Kavale

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PubMed1996

Social skill deficits and learning disabilities: a meta-analysis.

Over the past 15 years, increased attention has been directed at social skills and their relationship to learning disabilities. Using the methods of meta-analysis, this investigation explores the nature of social skill deficits among students with learning disabilities. Across 152 studies, quantitative synthesis shows that, on average, about 75% of students with learning disabilities manifest social skill deficits that distinguish them from comparison samples. Approximately the same level of group differentiation is found across different raters (teachers, peers, self) and across most dimensions of social competence. Although social skill deficits appear to be an integral part of the learning disability experience, a number of questions about the relationship between learning disability and social skill deficits remain unanswered. Until these questions are answered, social skill deficits are best viewed as one among many elements of the learning disability constellation, and no significant definitional changes related to social skill deficits appear warranted.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1995

Meta-analysis at 20: retrospect and prospect.

It has been 20 years since Gene Glass reinvigorated research integration through the formalization of meta-analysis. This article explores the nature of meta-analysis by placing it within the context of research synthesis. The methods of meta-analysis are described briefly and compared and contrasted with other forms of research integration. In addition, the findings from several meta-analyses are provided to show the advantages of quantitative review methods. Finally, criticisms of meta-analyses are analyzed, as are several unanswered questions about the direction of meta-analysis.

Evaluation Studies as Topic↗
PubMed1989

Identification and diagnostic issues in special education: a status report for child psychiatrists.

Education of children with learning, behavioral, or emotional disorders in the public schools has been rather remarkably transformed over the past decade by implementation of Public Law 94-142, Education of the Handicapped Act. Although children with learning disabilities have been served in far greater numbers than before, children with other disorders, including serious emotional disturbance, have either declined in numbers served or are being served in numbers far smaller than current prevalence rates would suggest are adequate. This paper reviews these trends, along with diagnostic criteria used to determine special education eligibility for such children, and discusses selected interdisciplinary and related trends.

Adolescent↗
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What definitions of learning disability say and don't say: a critical analysis.

In this article, we analyze critically available definitions of learning disability (LD). The general problem of definition is discussed first followed by a discussion of individual LD definitions from the earliest to the latest. We conclude that LD definitions fail to provide substantive insight into the nature of the condition. The reasons for this failure are discussed in relation to the nature of definition and the difficulties in providing operational definitions of LD that are meaningful and significant. Finally, means for resolving the problem of definition are discussed.

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