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Let's End the Reading Disabilities/Learning Disabilities Debate

Irene W. Gaskins is director of the Benchmark School in Media, Pennsylvania, and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her EdD degree from the University of Pennsylvania in educational psychology. Requests for reprints should be addressed to her at 2107 N. Providence Rd., Medic PA 19063.

The question of who should teach a poor reader is ofen determined by a label. Yet the experts who do the labeling do not agree on a clearly definitive w y to decide whether a poor reader should be labeled reading disabled or learning disabled. Further, labels have not proved to be helpful in determining treatment. In view of these facts and the fact that imprwed reading is the most common academic need of children labeled learning disabled or reading disabled, it appears that the fields of reading and learning disabilities should merge to create one strong field. Recommendations for creating this merger are given.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 15, No. 2, 81-83 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/002221948201500203


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