Learning disabilities in the academy: A Professor's guide

Academic Questions

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-65

  Zuriff, Gerald E ^a,b  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0345561449     PISSN: 08954852     EISSN: 19364709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12129-996-1010-z     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. National Clearinghouse on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Disabilities, Information from Heath (June/July 1995).
2. To Assure the Free Appropriate Public Education of All Children with Disabilities: 17th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" (U.S. Department of Education, 1995): 23.
3. For a good review of the history and current thinking about LD, see P.I. Myers and D.D. Hammill, Learning Disabilities: Basic Concepts, Assessment Practices, and Instructional Strategies, 4th ed. (Austin: PRO-ED, 1990).
4. See G.E. Zuriff, "The Myths of Learning Disabilities: The Social Construction of a Disorder, " Public Affairs Quarterly (in press).
5. For a conclusive review of LD definitions, see Donald Hammill, "On Defining Learning Disabilities: An Emerging Consensus, " Journal of Learning Disabilities 23 (1990): 74-84.
6. Loring Brinckerhoff, Stan Shaw, and Joan McGuire, Promoting Postsecondary Education for Students with Learning Disabilities (Austin: PRO-ED, 1993): ch. 3.
7. R. D'Amico, "Learning Disabilities and Legal Responsibilities Under Section 504, " in Proceedings of the Next Step: An Invitational Symposium on Learning Disabilities in Selective Colleges (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989).
8. Robert Edwards, "The Rights of Students with Learning Disabilities and the Responsibilities of Institutions of Higher Education under the Americans with Disabilities Act, " Journal of Law and Policy, 2 (1994): 213-48. For a thorough review of accommodations in postsecondary education see Brinckerhoff, Shaw, and McGuire.
9. Laura Rothstein, "College Students with Disabilities: Litigation Trends, " Review of Litigation (Summer 1994).
10. Americans with Disabilities Act, Title II, 104-130.
11. David Dagley and Charles Evans, "The Reasonable Accommodation Standard for Section 504-Eligible Students, " Education Law Reports (April 1995).
12. Supreme Court decision in Alexander v. Choate, 469 U.S. 287, 105 S. Ct. (1985).
13. Claire McCusker, "The Americans with Disabilities Act: Its Potential for Expanding the Scope of Reasonable Academic Accommodations, " Journal of College and University Law (Spring 1995).
14. United States Supreme Court Decision in Southeastern Community College v. Davis, 442 U.S. 397, 413, 99 S. Ct. (1979).
15. Jill Raines and Lawrence Rossow, "The Americans with Disabilities Act: Resolving the Separate-But-Equal Problem in Colleges and Universities, " West's Education Law Reporter (March 1994).
16. Wynne v. Tufts University School of Medicine, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, decided 6 October 1992.
17. Cabrillo College successfully argued this point before the Office of Civil Rights in 1991 (Complaint no. 09-91-2029).
18. Brigid Hurley, "Accommodating Learning Disabled Students in Higher Education: School's Legal Obligations under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, " Boston College Law Review (September 1991).
19. McCusker, "The American with Disabilities Act: Its Potential. "
20. Edwards, "The Rights of Students with Learning Disabilities. "
21. See the decision in Wynne v. Tufts University School of Medicine.
22. Claire McCusker, "The Americans with Disabilities Act: Its Potential for Expanding the Scope of Reasonable Academic Accommodations, " Journal of College and University Law (Spring 1995).
23. But see William Mehrens, Jason Millman, and Paul Sackett, "Accommodations for Candidates with Disabilities, " The Bar Examiner (November 1994).
24. Wynne v. Tufts University School of Medicine.
25. S.E. Phillips, "High-Stakes Testing Accommodation: Validity Versus Disabled Rights, " Applied Measurement in Education, 7 (1994): 93-120.
26. K.F. Geisinger, "Psychometric Issues in Testing Students with Disabilities, " Applied Measurement in Education, 7 (1994): 121-40.
27. Randy Bennett, Marjorie Ragosta, and Lawrence Stricker, "Test Results" in Testing Handicapped People, ed. Warren Willingham, Marjorie Ragosta, Randy Bennett, Henry Braun, Donald Rock, and Donald Powers (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1988).
28. For similar results for the American College Test, see J. Laing and M. Farmer, "Use of the ACT Assessment by Examinees with Disabilities, " Research Report No. 84 (Iowa City: The American College Testing Program, 1984).
29. Phillips, "High-Stakes Testing Accommodation. "
30. Hurley, "Accommodating Learning Disabled Students in Higher Education. "
31. S.E. Phillips, "High-Stakes Testing Accommodation: Validity Versus Disabled Rights, " Applied Measurement in Education, 7 (1994): 93-120.
32. M. Kay Runyan and Joseph Smith, Jr., "Identifying and Accommodating Learning Disabled Law School Students, "Journal of Legal Education (September/December 1991).
33. Joseph Smith, Jr. and M. Kay Runyan, "How Private Secondary Schools Can Meet Their Obligations to Accommodate Students with Specific Learning Disabilities, " Western New England Law Review, 17 (1995).
34. M. Kay Runyan, "The Effect of Extra Time on Reading Comprehension Scores for University Students with and without Learning Disabilities, " Journal of Learning Disabilities (February 1991).
35. Smith and Runyan, "Indentifying and Accommodating. "
36. Although the validity of the very concept of LD is open to question (see Zurif 0, LD is explicitly included as a disability under ADA (see Title II, 36.104 (i) (ii) and would be nearly impossible to challenge in court.
37. See what happened to Boston University when it tightened eligibility for LD status in Tamar Lewin, "College Toughens Its Stance on Learning-Disabilities Aid, " New York Times, 13 February 1996.
38. National Clearinghouse on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Disabilities, Information from Heath (June/July 1995): 6.