Disproportionality and learning disabilities: Parsing apart race, socioeconomic status, and language

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 246-257

  Shifrer, Dara ^a   Muller, Chandra ^a   Callahan, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; disproportionality; language minority; learning disabilities; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING DISORDER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955544725     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219410374236     Document Type: Article

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