The Social Construction of Learning Disabilities
@article{DudleyMarling2004TheSC,
title={The Social Construction of Learning Disabilities},
author={C. Dudley-Marling},
journal={Journal of Learning Disabilities},
year={2004},
volume={37},
pages={482 - 489}
}Underpinning the technical gaze that dominates learning disabilities theory and practice is the assumption that learning disabilities are a pathology that resides in the heads of individual students, with the corollary that remedial efforts also focus on what goes on in the heads of students classified as learning disabled. This article begins with a critique of the ideology of individualism that situates individual success and failure in the heads of individuals as a means of introducing an… CONTINUE READING
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