The category of learning disabilities continues to be among the most contentious in special education. The field of learning disabilities is today a complex, confused conglomerate of ideas and professional personnel.

The category of learning disabilities continues to be among the most contentious in special education. Much of the debate and dissent emanates from a lack of understanding about its basic nature. It cannot continue as it has in the past decade without the expectancy of failure and without bringing down on the heads of children professional frustrations, political hostility, and parental antagonism (Cruickshank, 1972, p. 5). The status of learning disabilities in the public schools of this nation is one of educational catastrophe.

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Dimensions and Diagnosis. Kenneth A. Kavale, Steven R. Forness, Michael Bender. The Nature of Learning Disabilities: Critical Elements of Diagnosis and Classification. Steven R. Forness, Kenneth A. Kavale.

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Forness co-authored the Handbook of Learning Disabilities, Volumes I, II, and III with Kenneth Kavale and Michael Bender, and together with Kavale wrote Science of Learning Disabilities (1985) and Nature of Learning Disabilities (1995). Forness received the Distinguished Educator Alumni Award from the University of Northern Colorado in 2006 and is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA.

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Kenneth A. The goal is to explicate the nature of learning disabilities by analyzing what it was supposed to be, what it has become, and what it might be. A predominant theme running through this text is the necessity for the field of learning disabilities to regain integrity by recapturing its essence.