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		<title>Does RtI reduce numbers of children in special education?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article slated to appear in Remedial and Special Education, Jeanne Wanzek and Sharon Vaughn reported that widely popular three-tiered approach to addressing did not significantly reduce the number and percentage of students identified for special education across seven elementary schools. Their study, which is limited to the response to instruction or intervention in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter-sound correspondences: New scanning data</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A research team in Professor Leo Blomert&#8217;s lab at Maastricht University in the Netherlands reported that  brain scans of children with and without dyslexia reveal differences when associating letters with sounds. Vera Blau and colleagues studied 34 9-&#189;-year-old children, 18 of whom were identified as having dyslexia. While the children completed tasks under four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HB, Ken Kavale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 5 February 1946, Kenneth A. Kavale was born in Brooklyn (NY, US). After graduating from college, Ken taught for a few years and then began graduate studies. In the 30+ years after he completed graduate work, he became one of the foremost contributors to the contemporary understanding of Learning Disabilities. As a journal editor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: NJ gov. signs law creating dyslexia task force.</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2010/01/18/update-nj-gov-signs-law-creating-dyslexia-task-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported earlier on LD Blog under the headline &#8220;New Jersey task force on reading disabilities created, seventh-grader Samantha Ravelli, of Ocean City (NJ, US), is having effects on public policy. The Associated Press reported 17 January 2010 that the law she lobbied her legislators to pass has been signed by the Governor of New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too common a concern?</title>
		<link>http://LDBlog.com/2010/01/14/too-common-a-concern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Greenwich (CT, US) Time site, Colin Gustafson described a meeting where parents of students with disabilities expressed concern about the special education services their children received from the local schools. Under the headline &#8220;Parents voice rage over special education in meeting with Freund, Board of Ed chairman,&#8221; Mr. Gustafson reported some of the [...]]]></description>
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