Samuel Kirk
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American psychologist and educator who coined the term learning disability
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Samuel Alexander Kirk was an American psychologist and educator, who is best known for coining the term learning disability. Early life Kirk was born in Rugby, North Dakota on 1 September 1904, to the farmers Richard and Nellie Kirk. He grew up on in a farm town and taught farmhands how to read at night. Kirk served in the military where he created a program for recruits who struggled with reading and writing.
Samuel Kirk 's Published Works
Published Works
- Educating Exceptional Children (1962) (610)
- Psycholinguistic Learning Disabilities: Diagnosis And Remediation (1971) (171)
- Examiners manual : Illinois test of psycholinguistic abilities (1961) (159)
- Diagnosis and Remediation of Learning Disabilities (1962) (155)
- Early education of the mentally retarded (1958) (128)
- Family organaization and crisis: Maintenance of integration in families with a severely mentally retarded child (1960) (127)
- Characteristics of Children Enrolled in the Child Service Demonstration Centers (1974) (121)
- Educating the retarded child (1951) (99)
- The development and psychometric characteristics of the revised Illinois test of psycholinguistic abilities (1969) (95)
- The Illinois test of psycholinguistic abilities--an approach to differential diagnosis. (1961) (67)
- Academic and developmental learning disabilities (1984) (62)
- Specific learning disabilities (1977) (60)
- The construction, standardization and statistical characteristics of the Illinois test of psycholinguistic abilities (1963) (59)
- A comparison of brain-injured and non-brain-injured mentally retarded children on several psychological variables (1957) (55)
- Teaching reading to slow-learning children (1940) (45)
- Teaching reading to slow and disabled learners (1940) (34)
- Are Mentally-Handicapped Children Segregated in the Regular Grades? (1950) (33)
- SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN, FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HANDICAPPED CHILDREN. (1968) (31)
- Early education of the mentally retarded : an experimental study (1958) (29)
- The diagnosis and remediation of psycholinguistic disabilities (1966) (28)
- Uses and abuses of the ITPA. (1978) (25)
- On Defining Learning Disabilities (1983) (22)
- The influence of manual tracing on the learning of simple words in the case of subnormal boys. (1933) (19)
- Behavioral Research on Exceptional Children (1967) (17)
- Ethnic Differences in Psycholinguistic Abilities (1972) (17)
- Studies in the Selection of Students for a Teachers College (1942) (16)
- The National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children (1968) (14)
- The Learning Disabled Preschool Child (1987) (14)
- What Is Special about Special Education? The Child Who Is Mentally Handicapped (1953) (12)
- Learning Disabilities (1981) (11)
- An evaluation of the study by Bernardine G. Schmidt entitled, Changes in personal, social, and intellectual behavior of children originally classified as feebleminded. (1948) (11)
- Identifying Developmental Discrepancies at the Preschool Level (1975) (11)
- A Study of The Relation of Ocular and Manual Preference to Mirror Reading (1934) (10)
- You and Your Retarded Child (1956) (10)
- Learning disabilities : selected ACLD papers (1975) (10)
- A Doctor's Degree program in special education (1957) (9)
- Extra-striate functions in the discrimination of complex visual patterns. (1936) (6)
- Exceptional children : educational resources and perspectives (1974) (6)
- A survey of attitudes concerning learning disabilities. (1979) (6)
- Evolution and Present Status of Early Education of the Handicapped. (1982) (5)
- Effects of educational treatment. (1962) (5)
- Test Illinois de aptitudes psicolingüisticas, ITPA: manual (1986) (5)
- The Institute for Research on Exceptional Children at the University of Illinois (1953) (5)
- The Influence of the Teacher's Handedness on Children's Reversal Tendencies in Writing (1935) (5)
- Impressions of Soviet Psycho-Educational Service and Research in Mental Retardation (1963) (4)
- Education Intelligence (1912) (4)
- Redesigning Delivery Systems for Learning Disabled Students. (1986) (4)
- Summaries of Research on the Revised Illinois Test of Psycholinguistics. Final Report. (1974) (4)
- Profiles of children with severe oral language disorders. (1982) (3)
- An Evaluation of the Study of Bernardine G. Schmidt (1948) (3)
- Issues in specific learning disabilities: towards a data base for decision making∗ (1980) (3)
- Report of the Committee on Schools for the Mentally Deficient. (1941) (2)
- Ethnic differences in head start children (1977) (2)
- The Education of Teachers of Special Classes (1950) (2)
- The Mentally Retarded (1953) (2)
- RESEARCH ON THE EDUCATION OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED (1955) (2)
- A Reading Program for Mentally Retarded Children (1939) (2)
- Exceptional Children Begins its 50th Anniversary Year (1983) (1)
- Youth in a Soundless World . A search for personality. Edna S. Levine. New York University Press, New York, 1956. 217 pp. $5. (1957) (1)
- Psycholinguistic learning disabilities : diagnosis and remediation / Samuel A. Kirk, Winifred D. Kirk (1976) (1)
- A project for pre-school mentally handicapped children. (1950) (1)
- Chapter II: The Mentally Retarded (1953) (1)
- How Johnny Learns to Read (1956) (1)
- Better Education for Handicapped Children 1969: The Second Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children. (1969) (1)
- The ICEC Research Committee Report (1952) (1)
- You and Your Retarded Child: A Manual for Parents of Retarded Children (1968) (1)
- Presentation of the 49th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (1950) (1)
- The effects of head start on psycholinguistic functions (1977) (1)
- 2.‐‐ARE SPECIAL CLASSES BENEFICIAL? (1960) (1)
- CURRENT AND RECENT RESEARCH--1967. (1967) (1)
- The President's Page (1942) (0)
- Here and There (1959) (0)
- A Tribute to Samuel A. Kirk (1984) (0)
- Speech and Thought in Severe Subnormality. (1963) (0)
- From the CEC Archives (1991) (0)
- The President's Page (1941) (0)
- Twentieth Annual Convention Hotel Schroeder—Milwaukee February 19, 20, 21, 1942 (1942) (0)
- The President's Page (1942) (0)
- I.C.E.C. Family Album (1953) (0)
- Foreword (1953) (0)
- At the editor's request, the author of the test comments: (1975) (0)
- Experiments in the early train inf of the mentally retarded. (1952) (0)
- Replies of Leading Professionals (1975) (0)
- Editorial: RESEARCH AND SERVICE EMPHASIS WITH THE MENTALLY RETARDED (1959) (0)
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1964) (0)
- Conference Calendar (1974) (0)
- An Interview With Samuel Kirk (1978) (0)
- Sickle cell disease and health education. (1987) (0)
- RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN THE SOVIET UNION. (1963) (0)
- Back Matter (1950) (0)
- The retarded id. (1958) (0)
- Fun comes first for blind slow-learners (1957) (0)
- Review of Leavell Language-Development Service (1955) (0)
- The Type III Error and Other Concerns in Learning Disability Research. (1985) (0)
- Educational reconditioning in Army general hospitals. (1946) (0)
- Book Review:The Development of Reasoning in Children with Normal and Defective Hearing Mildred C. Templin (1951) (0)
- The President's Page (1941) (0)
- The President's Page (1941) (0)
- The President's Page (1942) (0)
- Contributors (1975) (0)
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