Compensation Strategies Used by High-Ability Students With Learning Disabilities who Succeed In College:

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Reis, Sally M. McGuire, Joan M. Neu, Terry W.
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	To investigate how high-ability students With learning disabilities succeed in postsecondary academic environments, 12 young adults with disabilities who were successful at the university level were studied. Extensive interviews with these young adults provided examples of the problems faced by high-ability students with learning disabilities, as well as the specific compensation strategies the used to address and overcome these problems. Four of the participants had been identified as having a learning disability in elementary school; six were identified in junior or senior high school; and two were not diagnosed until college. The participants believed that having a learning disability was considered by elementary or secondary school personnel as synonymous with below-average ability. They reported that content remediation, rather than instruction in compensatory strategies, was usually provided in elementary and secondary school learning disability programs. In this article, the compensation strategies...
Starting Page	123
Ending Page	134
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1177/001698620004400205
Volume Number	44
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1280&context=ced_fac
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1177/001698620004400205
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article