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Record W2050234022 · doi:10.1177/0143034302023002915

The Changing Landscape of Learning Disabilities in Canada

2002· article· en· W2050234022 on OpenAlex
Robert M. Klassen

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueSchool Psychology International · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicReading and Literacy Development
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComparabilityLearning disabilityPsychologyReading comprehensionSpecial educationTypologyComprehensionReading (process)Mathematics educationDevelopmental psychologySociologyLinguistics

Abstract

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This article examines the definitions of LD used in empirical research in four major Canadian journals during the time period 19892000, and notes changes or trends in LD definitions and theories. Next, current definitions (2000/2001) ofLD used by the 10 provincial ministries of education and recent proposed changes are analysed and compared with changes in definition currently espoused in the research. Little consensus of LD definition was found in the 36 research articles, rendering comparability of findings difficult. Eight articles provided a theoretical critique of learning disabilities, with seven of the studies criticizing the role of IQ in LD definitions. Among the provinces, a number of different operational definitions are currently in use, with 8 of 10 provinces using some form of a 'traditional' IQ/achievement discrepancy method. A shift in LD identification practice, reflecting the theoretical work of Canadian-based Kirby, Siegel, and Stanovich, is seen in the recent Review of Special Education in British Columbia in which significantly low word identification, reading comprehension, and pseudo-word decoding are deemed sufficient to identify students as reading disabled. Implications for professionals in the field are discussed.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.145
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.305
Teacher spread0.286 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it