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A note on the use of Reading difficulties terms

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2018, 19(2), pp.163-186
  • DOI : 10.19049/JSPED.2018.19.2.08
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : May 16, 2018
  • Accepted : June 15, 2018
  • Published : June 30, 2018

WOO JEONG HAN 1 Kim, Namjin 2 Yong-Wook Kim 2 김인서 2

1대구사이버대학교
2대구대학교

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ABSTRACT

At present, the number of students with learning disabilities in Korea is continuously decreasing. The most problematic aspect of this tendency is that it is not diagnosed as a learning disorder even though it has serious difficulties in learning the subject including reading. This means that they are not provided with educational services tailored to the characteristics and needs of students. One of the reasons for avoiding or refusing diagnosis or discrimination of learning and reading disorders is stigmatization effect due to naming. In this study, it was suggested that the problem of "reading disorder", which includes the classification and diagnosis of "disability" as an approach to solving the problem that does not receive suitable educational services while having difficulties in learning, And the proposal of "difficulties to read" as an alternative term focusing on the provision of educational services. For this purpose, the social and educational implications related to the use of the terms were examined, and then the concept and possibility of the term "difficulty in reading" was considered as a research problem. In addition to deriving the results of the research problems through consideration of previous research, this study also discussed considerations such as social consensus and the establishment of diagnostic criteria when using "reading difficulties" terms. Finally, this study suggested that the discussion about the use of terminology in the field of learning disabilities and special education should be activated.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.