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Teachers' Ratings of the Social Competence and School Adjustment of Students with LD in Elementary and Junior High School

Published:1995-01 Issue:1 Volume:28 Page:44-52
ISSN:0022-2194
Container-title:Journal of Learning Disabilities
language:en
Short-container-title:J Learn Disabil

Author:

Tur-Kaspa Hana¹,Bryan Tanis²

Affiliation:

1. Hana Tur-Kaspa is a lecturer in the School of Education at Tel Aviv University. She received her PhD in special education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her primary research interests are in the social competence and social skills of students with learning disabilities, language development, and language disorders.

2. Tanis Bryan is a professor in the College of Education at the University of Chicago and an adjunct professor at Arizona State University. She received her PhD from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Her research interests focus on the social competence and social relationships of children and youth with learning disabilities. Address: Hana Tur-Kaspa, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine whether teachers' judgments of students' social competence and school adjustment differentiated students with learning disabilities (LD) (n = 30; boys = 19, girls = 11) from low-achieving (LA) students (n = 29; boys = 17, girls = 12) and average-achieving (AA) students (n = 33; boys = 18, girls = 15) at two grade levels: third/fourth (mean age = 9.97, SD = 1.09) and seventh/eighth (mean age = 13.63, SD = .65). Teachers completed the Walker-McConnell Scale of Social Competence and School Adjustment for each student. They rated younger students with LD and LA students as having significantly lower social competence and school adjustment than their AA peers. In addition, the results supported the use of teacher ratings for initial screening and identification of elementary students at high risk for social-behavioral problems. However, teachers' ratings did not discriminate LD, LA, and AA students at the older grade levels. The discussion focuses on the utility of teachers' identification of social problems at different grade levels.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Health Professions,Education,Health (social science)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002221949502800107

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