The characteristics of recent research on learning disabilities were examined in a survey of all articles on learning disabilities published in eight major journals during the last three years. The content areas addressed in this research appear to have changed dramatically from research conducted prior to 1970. There continue to be serious problems related to the manner in which learning disabled children are selected for research, and these problems are compounded by the failure of researchers to adequately describe their samples. Although general methodological problems are apparent in the design of much of the research on learning disabilities, a fairly high proportion of studies did employ true experimental designs.

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