Research Issues in Learning Disabilities: Theory, Methodology, Assessment, and Ethics

In this chapter, we described issues in conducting intervention research with students with learning disabilities on the secondary level. We maintained that interventions should be well-grounded in theories of learning as well as characterizations of learning disabilities (Pressley, Scruggs, & Mastropieri, 1989); that they should first be conducted in a series of highly controlled, laboratory-like experiments to carefully assess the potential utility of the intervention; and that, if the in...