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Looking Backward To Look Forward: Reflections Of Past Presidents Of The Council For Learning Disabilities, Apryl L. Poch
Looking Backward To Look Forward: Reflections Of Past Presidents Of The Council For Learning Disabilities, Apryl L. Poch
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
Anniversaries offer a time for reflection, celebration, validation, and sometimes, simply a candid conversation on the current state of a field. In the field of learning disabilities, anniversaries offer a time to consider how far the field has come and just how far is left to go to understand what a learning disability is. Definitional understanding is foundational for moving forward. This column presents findings from a series of short conversations with past presidents of the Council for Learning Disabilities, individuals who are also leading experts in the field of learning disabilities. Results suggest four different thoughts about the definition …