Learning From Samuel A. Kirk's 16 Versions of Learning Disability: A Rejoinder to Mather and Morris

摘要

In 2004, when I first started to investigate thenhistory of the learning disability construct, I quicklynfound that the available literature on the topic fellninto two categories, valid historical scholarship andncelebrationist narratives. There were a small numbernof serious historical works by Carrier (1983, 1986,n1987) and Franklin (1987, 1994), who examined thengrowth of the learning disability diagnosis as a politicalnand scientific development over many decades.