• DOI:10.1177/002221948902200407
Corpus ID: 45379145

Toward a Procedure for Minimizing and Detecting False Positive Diagnoses of Learning Disability

@article{Adelman1989TowardAP,
  title={Toward a Procedure for Minimizing and Detecting False Positive Diagnoses of Learning Disability},
  author={H. Adelman and B. Lauber and P. Nelson and D. Smith},
  journal={Journal of Learning Disabilities},
  year={1989},
  volume={22},
  pages={234 - 244}
}

H. Adelman, B. Lauber, +1 author D. Smith

Published 1989

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Assessment procedures that can significantly enhance motivation to perform are needed so that poor performance due to low or avoidance motivation is not misdiagnosed as indicating ability deficits or as symptomatic of learning disabilities (LD). In this connection, research is under way to investigate the degree to which a highly motivating computer game learning task can improve differential diagnoses of LD. Findings from the initial investigation indicate that a large proportion of students… CONTINUE READING

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