The coinage of the term “learning disabilities”
Should we blame S. A. Kirk?
Many of us probably have read that the famous special educator, Samuel A. Kirk, “coined” the term “learning disabilities” (LD) in a speech he gave to a group of parents in Chicago in 1963. That group…
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