There are several ongoing studies worldwide that will help resolve these questions. Preliminary results do indeed indicate that school systems ovrediagnose LD in boys and underdiagnose girls. Ongoing results from these studies should help bring together scientific advances with legislative mandates such as the reauthorization of IDEA, further ensuring that those children with the most severe forms of LD do indeed receive the free and appropriate education to which they are entitled. Stephen L. Buka, Sc.D., is associate professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, and a member of the CABL editorial board. This empirically oriented book provides helpful instruction in shortterm intervention with children having school problems.
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