Middle and High School Students with Learning Disabilities: Practical Academic Interventions for General Education Teachers - A Review of the Literature

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2004-04-01
Anderson, Sheri
Yılmaz Tüzün, Özgül
Wasburn-moses, Leah
Increasingly, students with learning disabilities are being educated in the general education setting by general education teachers. This trend benefit all students. This article reviews of the literature from 1986 to 2002 in order to identify and examine academic interventions for mid- dle and high school students with learning disabilities that can be applied to various subject areas. The practices that appeared to be most effective were categorized under the following headings: (a) mnemonic instruction, (b) graphic organizers, (c) guided notes, (d) class wide peer tutoring, (e) coached elaboration, and (f) inquiry teaching.
American Secondary Education

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S. Anderson, Ö. Yılmaz Tüzün, and L. Wasburn-moses, “Middle and High School Students with Learning Disabilities: Practical Academic Interventions for General Education Teachers - A Review of the Literature,” American Secondary Education, pp. 19–38, 2004, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/76694.