Educational Intervention and Students with Learning Disabilities

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  • Douglas Fuchs

Abstract

There are at least two important attributes of effective educational interventions for students with disabilities in general and with learning disabilities in particular. The first is that they have been validated; that is, they have been subjected to rigorous experimentation and have been found to promote significantly and dramatically greater desired effects than have comparison or control treatments. The second attribute of effective educational treatments is that they are developed with the needs ofan individual student in mind, and they are flexible so that as the student's needs change, so does the treatment. To illustrate both of these attributes of successful interventions, I turn to a brief discussion of curriculum-based measurement (CBM). Needless to say, there are many variants of effective instruction for students with learning disabilities (see D. Fuchs & Fuchs, 1995).

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