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Learning Disabilities in the United States

Advocacy, Science, and the Future of the Field

Louisa Cook Moats received her MA from Peabody College of Vanderbilt and her EdD from Harvard University. She is a psychologist in private practice, an adjunct assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Dartmouth College, and senior lecturer at St. Michael's College.

G. Reid Lyon

G. Reid Lyon is a psychologist who oversees the learning disabilities research program at the Human Learning and Behavior Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health. Address: Louisa Cook Moats, PO Box 253, East Thetford, VT 05043.

This overview offers a perspective on the distinguishing characteristics, past and present, of the LD field in the United States. The discussion focuses on the complex relationships that exist among the social and political forces that have molded the field, advocacy, and research and teaching practices. It emphasizes the compelling need to establish clinical and scientific validation of LD, to preserve the hard-won achievements of advocacy.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 26, No. 5, 282-294 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949302600501


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