Learning disabilities in Costa Rica: challenges for an "army of teachers".

abstract

• Special education services in the country of Costa Rica have been affected by factors that most developing countries confront: shortages of trained personnel, geographic isolation of a large sector of the population, and severe economic limitations. Despite these challenges, services for students with learning disabilities in Costa Rica have rapidly expanded in the last 15 years through the development of resource rooms, recargo classrooms, and itinerant teacher delivery systems. The history and evolution of special education services in Costa Rica are described, along with critical issues that impede the expansion of educational services to students with learning disabilities, particularly in rural areas.

authors

• Stough, Laura

published proceedings

• J Learn Disabil

author list (cited authors)

• Stough, L. M., & Aguirre-Roy, A. R.

citation count

• 8

complete list of authors

• Stough, LM||Aguirre-Roy, AR

publication date

• September 1997

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Learning Disabilities  Journal

keywords

• Adolescent
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Costa Rica
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Developing Countries
• Education, Special
• Forecasting
• Humans
• Incidence
• Learning Disabilities
• Rural Population
• Workforce

PubMed Central ID

• 9293239

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/002221949703000513

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/160525

start page

• 566

end page

• 571

volume

• 30

issue

• 5

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1177%2F002221949703000513

user-defined tag

• 4 Quality Education